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Posted: 2/18/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Brian Duce of Marysville brought his 11 year old son, Matt, out to fish with Andy this morning. They stayed at their place in Leavenworth and drove up in the early morning before the trip. Andy poun...
By: esew
Posted: 1/22/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I had a great day out on Chelan. Chelan is hot right now!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took some of my family bass fishing to see if they could catch a few. All of us did so, catching at least a couple apiece. We started out pretty early, and the bite seemed like it wouldn't develop. ...
By: huntergreg
Posted: 2/25/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was a nice day on the water. We ended up with 10 lake trout and 1 burbot. We didnt troll around on this trip. Did some jigging and drop shotting. Both were very efective. It was fun to cast out 2-3 oz...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished our club tournament. Two other clubs were on the day before so it was tough to find big fish. I caught 14 bass but nothing over 2.5 lbs. bedding fish would not bite if they saw you. Caught a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My first bass trip to Chelan this year, attempting to see what the situation is. I covered lots of ground... some old spots and some new spots. I found 9 bass, some on cranks and some drop-shotting....
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/17/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Sunday on Lake Chelan with Tyler Walker and Big Bass Dez, spring fishing for smallies. Dez had told me to be prepared for some good fishing and he was right, at least for part of the day.
Started ...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 2/19/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I've been meaning to take a bass-fishing partner out fishing in the winter for some time now, and we were finally able to get our schedules to match this weekend. We didn't get on the water early lik...
By: huntergreg
Posted: 2/20/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We spent 2 days on the water. Got there on sat. at 11 am. Fishing was slow and we landed 5 lake trout and one land lock salmon In 3 hrs. On sunday we hit the water around 9 am and hit the lower end of...
By: huntergreg
Posted: 2/11/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took two of my freinds out on the water (Ron and Anthony). Had a great day on the water. ended up with 20 lakers and 1 burbot for the day. fished from 135-220 feet of water. Was a nice day and the wat...
By: huntergreg
Posted: 2/5/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This was a great day on the lake. Spent the whole day in the trench. Fish I cought were in 195-220 foot of water. I ended up with 19 fish for the day. Didnt catch any fish after around 3pm. It was a f...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 2/5/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What a beautiful day on Lake Chelan. I think that's the calmest water I have every been on there. We got to the launch a little after 7, and it was about 20 degrees with brisk east winds. Luckily, ...
Posted: 9/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and Ray took the Bill and Sue Hays up to Rufus. They started at the Lower Pens and fished Fire Bait to catch a couple of nice fish. Then they moved downlake and trolled spinners and flies to ca...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Fished Lake Chelan this morning, hit a spot across wapato point to go for some Burbot(Fresh water Ling) we tried homemade glow jigs with herring strips as bait at about 200ft depths right off the bott...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/3/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was out on Lake Chelan, again, yesterday. Took an old school buddy out, who hasn't been bass fishing in years. Started out about 8:30 a.m. Went to my old haunt Abbots Point. No takers until we got dow...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had to get out fishing, for several reasons.
1. Cabin fever
2. New sonar
3. Marginal ice conditions for ice fishing
4. Keep my drop-shotting skills sharp
So I went to Lake Chelan. Couldn...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After kokanee fishing we switched over to lake trout fishing for a bit to try for a big one. We fished Mack Bar for about an hour before going in for lunch and playing in the water. Megan caught a n...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
On our last fishable day at Chelan, the girls wanted to catch more lakers, and Laura really wanted to get one. We started a little later and only focused on Macks. We tried the Bar, the Monument and...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with some good friends finally, after a long time not fishing together. We took two boats, with two of us in each boat. We started at about 6 a.m., and quit about 4 p.m. We went after smallm...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/27/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went solo to Chelan, looking to prove (or disprove) my dismal results from last week. I decided to change things up from my usual August tactics, just to eliminate possibilities as to why last week w...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/7/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Best Fishing Day on Chelan Ever - Part 2
Report on my trip on Sunday July 1st with comments on other days...
After limiting on kokanee, I thought I'd give lakers a quick try... didn't really ha...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 2/22/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I woke up this morning with fishin on my mind! I had a new (to me anyway) Scotty DownRigger to set up, and was itching to try it out. So I removed the wire that was on it, and spooled 650 feet of Pow...
By: Mcfisherson13
Posted: 11/21/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I made it out to Chelan for a test run mostly. I haven't had the boat out since August, so I need to make sure it remembered how to float. After a few trials at the dock and Battery issues I shuved ...
Posted: 4/7/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Darrell & Dad' alumnus, Andy Byrd wanted to come over and work on some jigging techniques with us. It worked pretty good. Twin tail jig bodies and about an ounce or so of weight did the trick.
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By: Stsb
Posted: 8/26/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went on a 8 day camping trip with the family. We stayed at the state park next to first crick. I have only been to lake chelan a couple times and haven't done to great. After fishing every morning f...
