With the recent snowfall in the McCall/Cascade area access and travel conditions on Lake Cascade are tough; with 12 to 15 inches of fresh snow sitting on top of a layer of ~3-4 inches of slush before reaching solid ice below. At this time most people utilizing Lake Cascade are doing so on foot or with the aid of snowmobiles, as the snow is to deep for the use of ATV's.
Mid week fishing pressure has been light depending on the weather conditions of any given day, however weekends are a busy time on Lake Cascade with the parking lots of Poison Creek boat ramp and Cascade City Ramp being nearly full on Saturdays and Sundays. The road to Sugarloaf boat ramp is not plowed and there is limited parking on the road adjacent to hwy 55.
Fishing success for perch in particular, has been fair to good over the last two weeks with the majority of anglers averaging 5 to 10 perch per outing but some groups are reporting good success with catches of perch ranging from 20 to 40 fish. Many of which are the 12 to 14+ inch jumbos! Rainbow trout fishing has been relatively slow thus far even though fall gill netting fish surveys showed good numbers of trout in the lake. Lake Cascade fish are well fed which helps explain the slow fishing but is also the reason that perch get so large.