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Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Brady and Lanny Bumgarner came out for a mornings fishing with us. It wasn't as good a bite as yesterday, but it was OK. The upper shoulder of the Bar produced early then the trench produced a few f...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 3/20/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
While some anglers are reporting there are kokanee around, and I would agree, they are certainly not aggressive and schooled up yet. At least not that we could find. We tried all our standard tactic...
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Kayla Hutton was nice enough to bring her Dad, Dan and come fishing with me on her Spring Break. We had a promising start on the Bar, hitting three fish in 2 passes in depths of 115 to 135 feet deep....
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains productive for Laketrout but it has been challlenging with the Pressure changes as we are rolling along into spring time.
I have been working the lower basin hard by dragging the ...
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It continues to be work to get those Mackinaw to bite. We are fishing the Bar early then hitting the holes in the indeterminate flat between the Bar and Rocky Point. The trench produced some fish la...
Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bobby Loomis of Mack's Lures was nice enough to bring the guys from Wholesale Sports out for a beautiful afternoon fishing on Lake Chelan with me. We used some oversize Mack's Lures wedding rings bai...
Posted: 3/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/25/2010
Hot Spots: 3
What a beautiful morning to fish. Mild temps and no wind. We started on the "Bar" before the sun was up. After two passes in about 90 minutes of wrork we had 4 fish including a 17.5 pound kicker. ...
Posted: 3/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, alls well the ends well. We went an hour and 48 minutes without a bite to start the morning. Spencer and his buddies just hung in there and stayed positive. It was the polar opposite of yeste...
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jody Bessert and Howard Pierce were nice enough to come fish with us. Our guide Andy worked the South Shore side of the Bar, the flat below the Bar and the lower basin to get them 11 lakers in the bo...
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2010
Hot Spots: 2
Pepe' Hernandez and Roger Sorenson used their last day off from running Blueberry Hills before Fall to come out and fish with me. I'm honored. We fished the Bar without success then pounded those ho...
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Grandview H.S. braintrust came out to fish with Andy this morning on our North River. Andy pounded away with T-4 Flatfish in both Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow. He got a couple of big fish...
Posted: 4/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good morning and a very tough afternoon on Chelan. The Bar produced quality fish. The dips in the flat below the Bar produced the picture fish for the day. The venerable U20 Luminous Chart...
Posted: 4/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today started off real slow in the lower basin but with the amount of Laketrout that I was seeing on the sonar I new that it was just a matter of time before the bite would pick up.
Trolled the Ace...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Monday was a day of crazy spring weather. With it came typical bite swings. The early morning was biteless (is that a word?) as the low pressure front pounded Andy and the Gailey's of Orem, Ut with ...
Posted: 4/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The same kind of situation as yesterday with the fishing except the weather was greatly improved. Stan had himself a great time yarding in some Lake Chelan Mackinaw out of the lower basin. Once agai...
Posted: 4/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our guide, Jeff Witkowski took a couple of guys out on Roses. A combination of trolling little F3 flatfish and still fishing doughbaits limited the 3 intrepid anglers. There was one tiger trout in a...
Posted: 4/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We pounded away through the lower basin to get five lakers. It was nice that the big fish was caught by the little boy at the end of the day. Water from 210 to 245 was most productive. Luminous Cha...
Posted: 4/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the old U20 Luminous Chartreuse was the producer. Four of the six fish came off of one lure. Sometimes it's weird how all the fish lock in on particular lure. We put one decent fish in the bo...
Posted: 4/10/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Boy what a great day and evening of fishing today.
I had 2 different Families out today.. My Morning group was Brian and Debbie Beavers from Montlake Terrace..We started trolling the edge of the tren...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2004
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Kokanee fishing has been quite productive around Lakeside. We have consistently been limiting out. We are using chartreuse and silver Flash Lites followed by a pink snubber and then a Wedding Ring t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2004
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished along the shoreline just across from the Yacht Club in 100-150 ft depth, caught these two Lake Trout on Sunday morning-not bad for quick mornings worth of fishing ! Used U20 flatfish trolled a...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/7/2001
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Our much anticipated yearly trip to the desert. New boat, good friends, great weather. Lousy fishing. We spent 3-4 hours each morning trolling from 120-190 feet ten feet off the bottom, using plugs. W...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/9/2004
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2004
Hot Spots: 0
This is prime time for 3 to 5 pound lake trout. We are hitting from 2 to 4 fish per hour trolling U-20 flatfish in the lower basin of Lake Chelan. Additionally, for nice planter and holdover rainbows...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/15/2004
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/15/2004
Hot Spots: 0
This continues to be prime time to catch 3 to 6 pound Lake Chelan Mackinaw trolling near the bottom in depths of 100' to 250'. Finally, Rufus Woods just keeps chugging along. Planted rainbows to 16",...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2004
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2004
Hot Spots: 0
I have been hitting some bigger fish up in the Narrows in the vicinity of the Yacht Club. I have had some success sizing my flatfish up to M-2's. Also, I "salvaged" a 4 hour trip by switching to a bro...
