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Posted: 12/18/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The Fishing and Catching remains very good for Laketrout here on Lake Chelan in the Lower Basin off Rocky Point and Minneapolis Beach in the depths below 180ft. The Picture of the 3 fellows is our sec...
Posted: 12/23/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Today I got to go out on Lake Chelan all by myself. I had a plan to catch a nice Christmas Chinook to barbecue and to enjoy the beautiful Scenery. Well the Chinook did not like me today and well the s...
Posted: 12/29/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Holy Smokes the fishing in Lake Chelan is outstanding right now for the Laketrout in the Lower Basin of Lake Chelan off Rocky Point and Minneapolis Beach. Troll the Ace hi-fly 1 to 4 ft off the bottom...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Quadfather and myself carried through with our quest to Chelan after RW and Omak Lake the prior two days. Andy, with Darrell and Dad's Family Guide Service did our trip justice. The photos show ju...
Posted: 1/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains very good for Laketrout in the Lower Basin...Yacht Club area is now picking up on some bigger Lakers that are staging to attack the migrating Kokanee as they move down into the low...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/23/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We are starting to pound the upper end of the fishery. Start at the Yacht Club and work the series of benches out into deep water until the 400' foot contour or you run out of cable. Big fish was 7p...
Posted: 1/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Biggins are Biting!!!!!!
1/23/10..What a beautiful day...I don't think that I could think of anything that I would rather be doing on such a nice day..Oh ya the fishing on Lake Chelan is down r...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We pounded the deep water above the Yacht Club. T4 Purple Glow Flatfish worked fine, but the hot ticket was the purple glow Rushin' Salmon Wobblers by Critter Gitter. The key depths were from 280' t...
Posted: 1/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today I am calling it a Logging day..We did nothing but Yard um in. If there was a rating 6 STARS this would have been the day.
Started in the Abyss above the Yacht Club targeting depths of 250 to ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/2/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/2/2010
Hot Spots: 2
After all that talking at the Puyallup Sportsman's Show it sure was nice to get back out on the lake. What a great day for fishing on Lake Chelan. We started out at 7:30 and had 3 lines down by 8. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/3/2010
Hot Spots: 2
We worked the centerline of Lake Chelan from the 200' depth just uplake of the Yacht Club in an uplake direction to about the 380' contour. This takes just about an hour per pass. We averaged about ...
Posted: 2/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Laketrout fishing in Lake Chelan remains very productive. I am cathing fish in the normal Locations but today I found that there is more Laketrout showing up on Mack Bar now which is strange to me to ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My "pinch me" week continues. Prime time for big lakers as well as nice numbers continues here on Lake Chelan. We worked exactly the same pattern as the other days this week. Purple glow Rushin' Sa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/6/2010
Hot Spots: 3
And the beat goes on. This is prime time to catch big kokanee eating Mackinaw. To try and put it in perspective we get about one fish over ten pounds for every forty fish caught over the course of t...
Posted: 2/7/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well had a couple of Fellows out that just wanted to target Chinook..Worked the trench for a half hour and Bam..This fish hit the Ace Hi-Fly off Rocky Point 111 ft deep..
I stayed on the edges of t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well the start this morning was slower than it's been, but we produced a 10+ pound fish among 6 lakers. Any day you are at 1.5 fish per hour and a fish over 10, it is a great day! Both guys caught t...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 2/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My Hats of to you Joe, and to you Anton. You guys have the touch when it comes to the Lake Chelan Deep water fishing. I got on the Lake about 0830-900 and trolled until 400 PM. Trolled the trench off ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun and goofy day. We had one big 3 line dog knot and had another boat catch our outrigger lines, (how can I expect anyone to know how far back those buggers are to get the bottom in 320 feet ...
Posted: 2/11/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started this morning at Millbay launch at 7:30 am..Motored down the lake off Pat and Mikes and started fishing in 170 ft. of water where we caught our first Laketrout..Slowly worked our way into the t...
Posted: 7/12/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well all I can say is that the Laketrout Fishing is on fire here on Lake Chelan..I have been averaging in the morning trips way above my normal average and also I am still mixing in a Chinook here and...
Posted: 4/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took Jim Chadwick of Issaquah and his buddy out. We snicked a fish off the Bar and kept moving. The indeterminate flat between the Bar and the Trench was the best of it for me today. Most fish came...
Posted: 4/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a beautiful morning of fishing today here on Lake Chelan..
Started today off dropping into the Trench in the lower Basin and before I could get all rods out we hooked up on a dandy laketrout..10...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 2
John Arnott and his son Sam (9) were nice enough to come out with me for a few hours. Due to travel plans we did a mid day trip. The best of it was the potholes below the Bar and above the Trench. ...
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was different from yesterday..My Father had a saying that he used alot when we were out fishing..We would catch fish in one area one day and then go there the next and not get a bite he would sa...
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding the lower end of Lake Chelan with the U20 luminous chartreuse flatfish was once again productive. Keep speeds between 1.4 and 1.6 mph and stay tight to the bottom. What a wonderfully consis...
