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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 6/6/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished out about 300 yards from blue roof condo.bite was on and off. Shoe peg corn was ticket at times, gulp white maggots the other. Squid baits, apex, spinner harness.tandem hooks with bait on 1st h...
Posted: 6/11/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff had the Baines party on 6/9 and the "legend in his own mind"... Bobby Loomis on 6/10. The lower end of the fishery is still producing terrific numbers of Kokanee with shallower bonus Cutt. Reme...
Posted: 6/12/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The Baird party the morning of the 11th and the Plouf party the morning of the 12th fished with Jeff. He is still pounding the lower basin for Kokanee working Mack's Double D dodgers with either wedd...
Posted: 6/15/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The Harris clan of Snoqualmie came out with Jeff for an epic day of Kokanee fishing. Running a cheater rod produced some Rainbow and Cutthroat trout too! Working Mack's Double D Dodgers in front of ...
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: JoshH
Posted: 7/16/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Chelan to fish for my 4th time with Jeff Witkowski of Darrell and Dad's Family Guide Service. While this was my 4 trip with Jeff, it will not be my last. I can't recommend fishing with Je...
Posted: 8/24/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Pepe' convinced Jeff to take Blueberry Kari and her Mom, Linda and another friend to our upper Lake for an all day tour for a wedding present to Kari. See the lake, fish some in the upper lake and se...
Posted: 8/24/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had the Wiun party out of the Edmonton area for an evening trip. I had been trying to find a consistent producing pattern with Manson Bay being OK, but not quite good enough. Took our good luck char...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 11/18/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I had not fished Lake Chelan since this past spring. My goal was to go for a multispecies day but primarily focus on bringing home a limit of Kokanee. I launched from the kayak and jigged up a few sma...
Posted: 11/24/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the regionally famous Pepe' Hernandez of Blueberry Hills fame along with Gilbert (the owner of East Wenatchee's El Porton) out to prospect for early winter Kokanee. It was a rainy day, but ...
Posted: 12/20/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Pepe' out for another of their Kokanee forays. He checked out areas from Mill Bay to 25 Mile Creek. Working just above schools that were marked mostly 50 to 150 feet deep over deeper botto...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 1/10/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/7/2018
Hot Spots: 3
For many of my off seasons (winter), I've been drooling over the Darrel and Dad's reports from lake chelan. Finally, this year I convinced my family to take a trip over there in the winter. My dad a...
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: 1/17/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I put the MT-2 in at the State park around 10:00. As you can see in the picture there is not a lot of dock. I fished above the narrows. Caught fish from 90-150' on the wire. I was using home tied flie...
Posted: 2/1/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After wowing the crowds at the Western Washington Sportsman Show, Jeff took Pepe out on the 30th to make sure the Kokanee were still there, then took fishing legends Mike Hall and Bobby Loomis out to ...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 2/15/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Melissa and I just returned from 3 great days on Lake Chelan. Although we didn't "limit out" I rated the trip a 4/5 as we caught enough to keep us excited and the weather cooperated nicely. The haul...
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: WashingtonGS
Posted: 3/3/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I started my day running to Stehekin to do some prospecting. Let’s just say the fishing wasn’t real good. We picked up a couple Kokanee and had one take down on the Chinook rod that did not stick. The...
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: 4/1/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Lake Chelan three days this past week. We fished every day above Gold Cr. at some point during the day. First day we started above Gold Cr in 900 ft of water and caught a fair amount of fi...
Posted: 4/2/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The kokanee fishing on Lake Chelan doesn't disappoint. There are a ton of fish starting to move down lake. The average size this year is bigger then the biggest of last season. We have been catching...
By: OGFboat
Posted: 4/4/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take the extended road trip to Chelan yesterday, and it was worth it. Had to launch at Manson due to my primary launch being closed until May for resurfacing of the parking lot??? THAT suc...
By: afk
Posted: 4/7/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hit it early and did ok. Best fishing was when the rain was really coming down.(10:00ish) Went the first 2 hours without a bump. tried all sorts of gear. I even put gloves on to see if that would help...
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 ...
