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By: Lunker16
Posted: 4/24/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Great couple days with my lil buddy. Flasher and pink hoochie tipped with Gulp maggot and Fire Corn did the trick. Most fish caught 22'-30' on rigger.
By: cobrar543
Posted: 4/24/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Paul Richwine and I got her Friday at 10 am and after a quick camp up we were set to head out for a day of pre-fishing before the Something Catchy Kokonee fishing tournament. People came from so many...
Posted: 4/27/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Sammy Arnott brought his dad and grandpa out to fish with me. We trolled for Mack's on Colyar Ledge then worked downlake around the State Park. On the Ledge we fished T4 GPLF Flatfish at 1.2 mph in ...
Posted: 3/26/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2018
Hot Spots: 1
It no secret the kokanee fishing on Lake Chelan has been good. I spent a few days on the lake recently. All the boat ramps are good to use. Starting next month the millbay launch will be closed. We la...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 2/23/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished several days last week with some fast times and some slow times. The fish are scattered and a lot of the fish we have been catching are not showing up on the sonar. We are starting to see so...
By: Silver Bullet
Posted: 1/14/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First time post
Had a great trip on Lake Chelan with Jeff at Darrell and Dads. Jeff was at the ramp to meet us at 7:30 after a short safety talk we were on our way. A short run up lake and we put ...
By: afk
Posted: 6/18/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fathers Day fishing trip for the memory bank. Great time on Chelan with my 2 youngest. We put in at the State park around 06:30. Ran down to the red roofs. When we first put in I didn't even get the s...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/10/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
In Chelan for the week. Did some prospecting Sunday morning for a couple of hours. Had heard at Hooked on Toys that the kokes were up towards Wapato Point. I did hit my first two up there, but wasn...
By: haverman83
Posted: 4/15/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Buddy and I decided to take the 3 he drive to Chelan and catch some koks but mainly wanted to target macks we got to the state park at around 520 and got our gear ready and headed out to Wapato point ...
By: markbaldassare
Posted: 5/11/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few days at lake Chelan fished from around 5 am to 10 am first day caught 2 Kokanee with a couple of missed ones. Second day caught 1 Kokanee with no other bites for that day. 3rd day no fish ...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 3/18/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/17/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We started out fishing for Mackinaw in the early morning. We landed a 13.7lb Lake Trout. We decided to catch a few Kokanee for dinner. We headed up lake to just above the yacht club. We set lines and...
By: tbonebeanchelan
Posted: 4/6/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan: Went out early morning for Kokanee; big surprise; caught a king at 50 deep in front of the Yacht Club. The fish hit a pink squid baited with corn soaked in bloody tuna sauce. Was fishing ...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 12/26/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/25/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Yes it was a 5 rating day on the lake. We ended with 45 Kokanee in the boat and lost about as may. We fished above Lake Chelan State Park between the 200’ and 300’ line. I set two downriggers at 80’ ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/29/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2018
Hot Spots: 1
I got to fish with Jeff Witkowski of Darrell and Dad's Family Guide Service, filming for a future TV episode on laker fishing. Along for the action was Bobby Loomis of Macks Lure.
The weather fro...
By: rappuhd
Posted: 10/30/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well had a nice long report, but it went away so here is a condensed version. Fished both Sunday and Monday with poor results. All told one nice lake trout ,one chinook and a couple nice Cutts. Fished...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/1/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at State park around 4:30am on the hunt for some Kokanee... was not long until the downrigger we’re down and we were catching! Poles going crazy all morning Kokanee weren’t the only thing hit...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/6/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2019
Hot Spots: 1
I got the good fortune of fishing with Lance and Kristy Effrig of Washington Guide Services this weekend - and even beter was the destination - Stehekin! If you've never been to the very end of Lake C...
By: dharris
Posted: 5/7/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Great time this morning out on flat water with lots of action. I gave the day a five even though we didn’t get our 30 fish limit because it certainly wasn’t for lack of effort by the Kokes. We did man...
By: dharris
Posted: 5/8/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Another very good morning out on Lake Chelan. We cut the morning short so we could spend some time with the wives today (that way we didn't have to call it a fishing vacation) so we didn't get as many...
By: fisherman92
Posted: 6/25/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2019
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy his brother and myself took a quick trip to chelan to target smallies and Mack's. We tried smallies in the AM and got a few small ones but ran into lots of pikeminnow... they were slamming cr...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 3/2/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the trip with Bryan peck to fish the early Shoot Out Derby at Lake Chelan. We arrived at Chelan State Park late Thursday PM and fished Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Friday we pre...
By: Salmonids
Posted: 6/3/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fortunate to be able to spend a few days at the state park this week. Fished June 1-3. Had tons of fun and relaxing time out there. Fishing is still great. Water is warmer and fish seemed to be deeper...
By: Salmonids
Posted: 12/7/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/7/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to Chelan for a break and to spend time with family. Two day report for 12/6/21 and 12/7/21. Coming from the West side, made it over the pass before the weather turned. Haven't been fishing ...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/11/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Day 2- Okay so got a bit more serious today with a 5:30 start fishing solo and after launching at Mill bay headed straight down to the red roof condos but was met with a pretty still east wind which i...
By: BigFishy13
Posted: 11/5/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Lake Chelan after school a few weeks ago to target some big smallies. I don't have a boat, but there are a few spot's that you can consistently catch smallies throughout the summer-fall f...
