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Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan continues to produce nice Lake trout in the lower Basin of Lake Chelan.I have been trolling the Ace Hi-fly by Silverhorde to be most productive. The kokanee have showed up but it is real d...
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A run from the Bar down through the trench was productive pulling purple glow flatfish in the downrigger rods and Kingfisher Lite spoons on the outrigger rods. 1.3 to 1.5 mph was the speed. We worke...
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy pounded the lower basin leaning towards the Minneapolis side with Mack's Lures smile blade in front of a B2 Squid baited with a strip of Pikeminnow. It was a great morning to get a nice pile of ...
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again the area between Minneapolis and the trench was productive for Andy and his crew for the day. Those B2's baited with a fillet of Pikeminnow was productive. The bite really picked up in th...
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I got to pound that Minneapolis pattern with a combination of hootchies and B2 squids baited with strip baits. It worked very well. Most of the fish came between 140 and 180 feet deep, trolling from...
Posted: 5/19/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a great day of catching on Lake Chelan for the Laketrout on Mack Bar..We started fishing at 7:00 am and I think it took 10 minutes and boated the first Laketrout.
Ended the day with 14 tota...
Posted: 5/20/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Lynch brothers were nice enough to share the twins birthday party with us. We worked the South Shore of the lower basin all the way from the Blue Roof Condos to just above Sunnybank. Depths of 1...
Posted: 5/20/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The little F7 Luminous Chartreuse Flatfish outproduced everything else on Chelan this monring. We fought wind while working from just above Sunnybank to just below Minneapolis. Depths of 130 to 200 ...
Posted: 5/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was a worth waiting for. Our crew got "blown out" by the wind last evening, so they were back at it this morning. The pictured pile of fish were on the dock before 9:30. Trolling baited Ac...
Posted: 5/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2010
Hot Spots: 3
Pulling pikeminnow baited B2 squids behind a wiggle fin produced good numbers again in the evening. We pounded the 140's to 180's water off of Sunnybank again. Speeds of 1.3 mph to 1.6 mph worked be...
Posted: 5/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again pounding Sunnybank with those baited B2's was the ticket. Depths of 130 to 190 was best. We worked right around 1.5mph. As always try to stay within 10 feet of the bottom. What a great ...
Posted: 5/23/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those little B2 squids with the small wiggle fin in front baited with a bit of Northern Pikeminnow was once again the ticket. We started out the morning pounding the pattern around Sunnybank. We the...
By: bionic_one
Posted: 5/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday I tried jigging for Macks. Couldn't ever find them with my FF. Looked for them in the area east of the state park with no success.
Sunday I attempted trolling for macks. Used the Ace Hi...
Posted: 5/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Glow B2 squid rigs baited with a bit of Pikeminnow once again produced great numbers around Sunnybank. Pound away at the 130's to the 190's at about 1.5mph. It has been great out there. Andy did a ...
Posted: 5/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The baited B2's once again caught Lakers around Sunnybank. Another great morning. This pattern is difficult to troll accurately, but when you're on 'em, they'll bite.
Anton Jones - Darrell and ...
Posted: 5/27/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it finally slowed down off of Sunnybank a bit. Andy put the Beamis' on big fish on the Bar and numbers right off the tip of Wapato Point in spite of pretty steady rain all day long. As always ...
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the fishing around Sunnybank continued to cool. We got a nice 8.5 pound fish to bite early on the lower end of the Bar. We plucked a couple more quality fish on 2 more passes, but that left us...
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy ran his guys along the same pattern with about the same results as I had. He ran B2 squids firts over the Bar (picked up a nice big fish) then over to Sunnybank. Bar depths are 119 to 135 and S...
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today we started on Mack bar and ended on Mack bar..The Laketrout bite was fast and furious at the start but then slowed at around 10:00am. The Ace Hi-fly out fished evrything else again today.. We ha...
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pulling those B2's along the bottom over at Sunnybank and the face of Manson Bay produced a nice pile of smallish fish. We couldn't get bit on the Bar this AM. We used a chunk of Northern Pikeminnow...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my brother-in-law and his son out for some smallmouth fishing. Over this past year, they both have begun getting real interested in fishing. Both were excited to have a crack at bass fishing, w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy used Glow, B2 squids baited with a piece of Pikeminnow to give Josh Colver the 11th birthday present to remember. His dad and he pounded away at a variety of lower basin locations to boat 8 lake...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We used mostly Pink B2 3 inch squid rigs to catch a bunch of Mackinaw and a very nice Chinook. We plucked a fish right at the end of one pass on the Bar and moved to Sunnybank. On Sunnybank we got 3...
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started on Mack bar today..Trolled the Ace Hi-fly again and caught a nice 8lber but the bite there was alot tougher than the day before..So moved the boat to Minneapolis Beach and targeted depths from...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
U20 Purple Glow flatfish were the ticket this evening. Started at Sunnybank and pulled that 8 pounder off of a shallow 105' hump. We then finished with a couple of quality fish on the Bar in some st...
