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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/4/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I promised I would get some pics on the site from our Nov. trip to Lake Chelan for smallies. I hope the pics take. If not, well, I guess you all will have to go and find out for yourselves the quality...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 10/30/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It's been a few years since I've fished Chelan late in the year for bass. So after spending a couple hours yesterday cleaning up the boat from a tournament, I was awake this morning and said what the...
Posted: 5/30/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Derek Gill brought his buddies out and fished with Jeff. They worked the area below Wapato Pt with squid rigs to catch their fish. Depths of 150 to 185 worked best. Speeds of 1.2 to 1.6 triggered t...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 10/20/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Dave Graybill had mentioned Lake Chelan and potential for good rainbow fishing this week, so i felt it was finally time to get this lake off my to do list, and give it a shot. started targeting trout...
Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Just need to show the pics from Wolfgang Janas and Adam Neff trip. The location I was in when I submitted the report initially would not allow the picture upload. Refer to my previous 9/15 report fo...
By: chris_823
Posted: 5/23/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Late report but here it is just the same, trolling for lake trout on the Chelan side of Wapato Point around 10am, perfect day. Rod bend straight down, figured I had snagged a tree on the bottom until...
Posted: 12/7/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wow it's cold outside here in our Lake Chelan Valley! But the cold temps have not affected the Laketrout bite at all. Dragging the Ace Hi-Fly next to the bottom in the Trench has been real productive....
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 2
This report covers Saturday evening, Sunday all day, and Monday morning.
After our Epic Trip of a month ago, I was pretty excited to be able to return to Lake Chelan and go after more of those amaz...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for JoAnn and my last trip to Lake Chelan this year for kokanee. It’s been a unexpected and fun spring, and we have enjoyed the lake’s beauty and great kokanee fishing.
We arrived Sa...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I had the pleasure of fishing with Jeff Witkowski, who is a guide that works with Anton Jones of Darrell and Dad’s Family Guide Service. Our target was Lake Chelan Lake Trout.
We left th...
By: MotoBoat
Posted: 4/26/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Word is the fish are scattered. Small schools of fish when you do find them. Catch a few out of a school, try and stay on them. They move around. Making fishing hit and miss. But generally slow.
S...
By: afk
Posted: 3/15/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Played hooky from work today and hit the water with Mcfisherson13. The weather was beautiful. We fished from 95'-210' deep. Boated 2 fish soon after we got started. Ace Hi fly got the dink & U-20 got...
By: billdance
Posted: 7/20/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Chelan Thursday and Friday. Overall pretty slow. The usual areas were not producing. Caught fish where there were rocks and deep docks on crankbaits. Fishing was best right before dark Thursday...
By: emrobi
Posted: 5/2/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great time fishing lake Chelan this morning for kokanee. A wedding ring with smiley blade 8-10" behind a 4" dodger 45 - 60 feet down provided most of the hook-ups. The main action occurred betwe...
By: San Genuario
Posted: 4/11/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2014
Hot Spots: 1
First run at chelan. About 15 boats in the lower end. A few fish caught. In talking to six boats at the dock..... Not many fish. Some got skunked. I picked up three trout on kokanee gear.. I cau...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
scratched the the kokanee itch this morning. started early as usual, 3 fish by 530am, 2 rainbow c&r, 1 12" kok in the box,then i had to look around for them again, getting bites here and there, Red b...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 5/15/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
early riser, fishing at 5am, started out slow, then i started getting bites fairly conistently, i ended up going 6 for 14, with 3 fish getting lost at the net (grr), and another got 10' from the boat....
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 10/5/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to check out Lake Chelan to see if the trout fishing was picking up. the goal was really just relax, explore a couple spots to see what fish i could find at a few spots i've hit in the past. ...
Posted: 7/13/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Mackinaw fishing on Lake Chelan continues Hot, just like the weather. We are fishing the Bar early, the head of the trench or off of Wapato Pt. in the middle of the day and in the indeterminate flat ...
By: rojomojo
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Here's the quick story: Stayed at State Park, fished three days, didn't get into the fish until the third day with 11. Go to the Yacht Club! The third day gets a 3, the others were 1's.
Came here t...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Launched at state park at 430am. motored down to yacht club area across from Wapato point, started with lines at 35' and 55'. line at 55' with orange glow crappie tube, orange bead and orange glow s...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/5/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Drove up to the Mill Bay launch, what a nice facility. Paid the ten bucks to launch and park, boy was the wind blowing! Put the boat in and about got beat to death; be sure to put on the bumpers as ...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took an old friend out fishing for kokanee. not sure what he was expecting, but he was blown away every time i handed him the rod, he was thinking we would maybe catch 1. Then the morning started out...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 2/23/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/21/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Day one of a two day Adventure.
With wind in the forecast I figured we only had till about noon to fish. On this day we concentrated our efforts around the "Yatch Club" Area of the lake. Working ab...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 2/23/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Having found bigger fish a little further up the lake on day one, on this day we went for a boat ride.
We passed the 10-15 boats fishing Hollywood beach and kept going for a few more miles up the l...
