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By: blufin loui
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I Went down to the lake after Dropping Cindy off at work this morning (man is life good) with the intention of catching some Kokanee. Trolled the Lakeside area , and across the lake from there with no...
Posted: 6/2/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We pounded the Bar with Plug Cut for some nice quality fish this evening. Also, those B2's worked pretty good. The tip of Wapato Point provided some of the smaller fish. They were short striking qu...
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Purple Glow and Luminous Chartreuse Flatfish worked best up at the Yacht Club for us. These nice quality fish were mostly in depths of 140 to 190 feet within 5 feet of the bottom at speeds of 1.3 to ...
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We were back it for an evening trip. The face of Manson Bay produced some nice quality fish, then we finished on the Bar trying for the big one... B2 squids baited with a northern pikeminnow fillet ...
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
T4 Flatfish in purple glow and Luminous Chartreuse worked above the Narrows this morning. I trolled in the Narrows for 3/4 of an hour without getting bit, even though there were a lot of fish visible...
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a interesting Fishing trip with having the Dept. of Ecology on the boat collecting Laketrout Samples for testing the Laketrout for toxicity levels..It was a wet trip with showers but no wind...
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This morning was a very quick start the first hour with 10 hits and boating 4 nice Laketrout on Mack Bar. Then the bite slowed as the morning progressed. I trolled the Ace Hi-fly again with scented ba...
Posted: 6/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Duells were up from Phoenix, Arizona for a wedding. They decided to try their hand at fishing for Lake Chelan's lakers. Since the young guys had a bachelor party to attend the night before they ...
Posted: 6/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a repeat of my last outing on Lake Chelan by targeting the big arches on Mack Bar, except this time the fish cooperated well today..had 15 hits the first 2 hours with the Big fish tipping th...
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the delay in getting these posted. It has been hectic at Darrell & Dad's HQ with the boss lady retiring and grandkids graduating.
The Austin's were nice enough to go fishing with me in...
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy got a Glow Ace Hi Fly to produce the big twelve and a half pound fish on the Bar late in the evening. Working off of Rocky Point earlier in the evening produced a few lakers, but the 2.5 pound t...
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well I sure appreciate brothers-in-law Harlan Mayer of East Wenatchee and Dave Deardorff of Yale, Iowa coming out with me. We had a magical first run on the Bar with 4 nice quality fish in the first ...
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well that Double Glow Ace Hi with a couple of hooks baited with a strip of Pikeminnow produced another Chinook today. A very nice 12 pounder that was a screamer off the clip. Dan and Emily Moran of ...
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Carl Young was nice enough to bring Jakeob (9) and Riley (11) Webb along with Nalani Ho out fishing with me. We worked T4 Flatfish in the Purple Glow and Luminous Chartreuse on the Bar to get some ni...
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a great day to be on the water..Trolled the Action Disc with fish fillet strips today on Mack Bar to just bang the dickens out of the Laketrout..
Found nice fish in the 120 to 160ft depths...
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was a nice early morning magical run on the Bar this morning. We hooked up a double and lost them both. At the downlake end we hooked a nice fish that turned into a big hook nosed 14.5 poun...
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Baited Ace Hi Flies produced for Andy this evening pounding away at Minneapolis Beach. Depths of 140 to 180 produced these nice quality fish. Speeds of 1.3 to 1.7 mph were best. You have to pound t...
Posted: 6/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding away with Flatfish in the T4 and F7 sizes in Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow produced nicely. We only plunked one fish off my 2 passes on the Bar. We picked up 2 more fish on a long loo...
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was another beautiful day in Paradise. We pounded the Bar early, then trolled over to Minneapolis then down and up the trench for a morning trip. Mike Strehlow was nice enough to bring his ...
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy had a nice early run on the Bar before moving over to Minneapolis and a finishing pass up the Trench to get a nice pile of fish for fishing buddies Gary Morrison and Dennis Johnson. He pounded a...
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy was really challenged by the wind today as a cold low pressure front moved through and really created a lockjaw situation. Hammering away with an assortment of flatfish and baited Ace Hi Flies n...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 6/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a couple of hours to spare this morning, so hooked up the boat and headed down to the lake. Put a flatfish down around 0730, and off the water somewhere around noon. Started in the lower trench ar...
Posted: 6/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on Lake Chelan remains very productive for Laketrout in the lower basin below Wapato Point around Rocky Point and Minneapolis Beach and on Mack Bar..Troll the Ace Hi-Fly and Glow Flatfish to f...
Posted: 6/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Go to the Bar...Mack Bar that is on Lake Chelan..The Big boys are stacked on mack bar now but they are tricky to catch.
We trolled 3 times over these big fish and on the 4th pass the Biggin hit..Ch...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 6/25/2010
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lowered a downrigger weight to the depths of Lake Chelan around 0730 in the Mack Bar area. I had on the silver Clatter Tad that was producing for me last trip. On the Second rod I rigged the Ace Hi Fl...
