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By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 2/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
got out and explored some different areas, had decent luck, fish were scattered, depths 50-120' on the wire. had a few drive by's that didn't stick, ended 4 fish in the boat along with a handful of "...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 1/3/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
well the weather called for calm and cool, but i think there was a bit more wind than i had anticipated. I wasn't blown out, but in order to control my troll better i only trolled with the wind. i f...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 6/15/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took out the same friend i took out last week, and worked the area around the state park. Started a little after 5am, and fished for 5 hours. Finished with 15 fish and lost 5 or 6. Many fish were i...
Posted: 4/20/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Second day of the Chelan Kokanee Derby found myself and partner Scott sitting in 10th place for overall boat weight and not on the board for big fish. Though we crushed the field for time fished/numbe...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 4/20/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Whew! What a weekend! Three of my good buddies joined me this weekend for the Something Catchy Derby on Lake Chelan. This report will break down three days of fishing.
Friday- 5 stars
We began t...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 4/20/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Lake Chelan for the Something Catchy Kokanee derby. We did ok putting Kokanee in the boat early but the bite for us really dropped off after 10 am. Probably should have started earlier giv...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 4/11/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Just got done with 3 days in Chelan and holy smokes was fishing hot! Wednesday was a bit of a struggle in the morning but we got them dialed in towards the afternoon. Then Thursday and Friday was a wi...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 3/15/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/12/2016
Hot Spots: 3
This weekend I had Mark, Mike and Nick join me for two days of fishing on Lake Chelan. I arrived at the lake on friday morning to get a little "test fishing" in as I had a tough time locating good num...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 1/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well its looking like its going to be another great year on chelan! We braved icy road and a very slick boat launch to try for some cold weather Kokanee. We ventured up lake and we hit fish right off ...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 3/23/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I had the pleasure of spending 5 days in Chelan with some awesome clients! Every day we found more and more fish moving down the lake and fishing was INSANE! Keeping four rods in the water is impossib...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 1/18/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well I seen some good reports and knew what had to be done. Head to Chelan for the Weekend!
Friday we fished the Pateros area on the Big C. Pounded water but came up with a skunk. Talked to the fi...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 3/13/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Holy smokes is Chelan kicking out some fish! This report will cover two days.
On Wednesday the 11th I woke up to a 2:30 am alarm and hit the road for the east side. Much to my surprise I couldn't...
By: Mike10gs
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
So this is for the whole weekend at chelan.
My girlfriend(chantelle) and I went to lake chelan for the first time to camp and to be there for the get together. I'll try to make this quick..
Frid...
By: alkalibee
Posted: 6/18/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Long time reader only my second post. Staying at the Worldmark in Chelan and Dad brought his boat. We have been enjoying the 3-4 lb Kokanee from Lake Roosevelt so even though we picked up 8 Kokanee ...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Chelan for the holiday weekend and camped nearby at Alta Lake. Targeted Macks on the lower basin for the morning with little success. Hooked one decent cutthroat and no macks.
Headed ...
By: rojomojo
Posted: 4/6/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Report is for Tuesday thru Thursday.
For exactly 60 hours, we didn't mark any schools of koks. We tried multiple depths, only one we caught was on a long lined surface pole fishing less than two fe...
Posted: 5/28/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2016
Hot Spots: 3
We hit Lake Chelan Yesterday. Fishing was amazing. We started down lake and worked our way up lake. Got the first rod in at 30 feet. Before I get get the second rod down. The first had a nice kokanee ...
Posted: 2/19/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Erik Walum brought his clan out to fish with Jeff for some Kokanee. Thought I'd post this. A 40 kokanee day is pretty special! Same pattern as yesterday worked. Remember, we are offering a sale fo...
Posted: 2/21/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff is really on a roll. On the 20th he took out the regionally notorious Graybill brothers. Dave ("the Commish" AKA: The Fishing Magician) and his brother, Guide Emeritus on Chelan, Rick. I'm sur...
Posted: 2/24/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Paul Chauvin and Melissa Miller came out and fished with Jeff for Kokanee again. Same pattern, same results. Yesterday we had another father and son combo come out and fish with Jeff for their limit...
Posted: 5/17/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The Finck's came out today for their Day 2 adventure with Jeff. They limited again today using the same technique as on the 15th. See that report for technique. The 9# Mack was a real challenge on ...
By: Chewbauka2017
Posted: 5/19/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Started fish Manson Bay, along with 20 ofr more boats. After an hour of nothing we moved down lake. Around the Red Roofed Condo we found fish got 5 in short order then thing stopped. About 1215 acti...
Posted: 5/20/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The Mukilteo Russian Baptist Church sent some the guys out with us. We pounded the area around Lake Chelan State Park and Colyar ledge for these Mackinaw and Kokanee. Jeff Drifts worked great as wel...
By: afk
Posted: 5/21/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Chelan continues to produce limits of Kokes! My middle son and I fished Manson Bay. The best fishing was between 7 and 9 AM. We caught fish from 90' up to 20'. Watermelon dodger by Kokabow and home ti...
Posted: 5/22/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff had the Vyborny's yesterday and the Pitt's today for Kokanee. Anton had Mike Thorpe and Kurt Rasmussen out for Mackinaw yesterday. It is beautiful weather in the Northwest... Jeff hit areas fr...
