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Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Back Fishing on Lake Chelan Today... Trolled Mack Bar to start the day and boated a Nice 8 lb Laketrout then continued trolling down lake in the Heart of the Trench to have a Banner Day. The Bait of...
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Posted: 4/22/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for Macks and Silvers for a few hours Thursday Morn. Hadn't been out in a while and felt kinda rusty. Wind was blowing fairly strong with whitecaps and gusts. Trolled for Macks in lower lake wi...
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Posted: 4/22/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Purple Glow U20 flatfish produced some nice quality fish for Sam Arnott for his 11th Birthday trip with his dad, John. Then to beat his previous years record, we moved to the monument, switched to F7...
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Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We had Bobby Loomis and Dustin Countryman out for a trip on Chelan. We wanted to work a few locations for Lakers and pound away for Kokanee. The Laker fishing was great using a variety of Mack's Lur...
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Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today we fished the Lower Trench and got lucky and boated a nice 10lb. Chinook. The fish hit at 208 ft deep on the Ace Hi-Fly by Silverhorde. Jaden Anthony (7) did a great Job Battling this Gem of Lak...
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Posted: 4/25/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Again today I fished the Trench in the Lower basin of Lake Chelan to have a real good 4hrs. of fishing for Laketrout..Trolled the Ace Hi-Fly By Silverhorde with a Glow Smile Blade in front..The Laketr...
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Posted: 4/26/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tish and Bill came out and fished the afternoon. They had to brave some of that spring PM wind, but they caught some fish. We focused on Mack's cha cha squidders with big blades and small squids tip...
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Posted: 4/26/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
April 26th, 2011 Lake Chelan was good to us again today with warm sun and flat calm waters..I trolled the edge of the Lower Section of the Trench to start the day with a Nice laketrout and as the d...
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Posted: 4/27/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pounded the Bar early, then the flat. Fish are sitting in the dips out there. Although the majority of the flat is 180 to 190 feet deep, the fish are concentrated in the dips that are 203 to 213. M...
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Posted: 4/28/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We battled today to get the Laketrout to bite..Must have been My Turn in the Barrel!!!! We trolled the Trench and were over Fish after Fish but they were real tough to get to bite...I changed Lures 4...
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Posted: 4/28/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Mack's Lures Cha Cha Squidders worked in conjunction with U20 purple glow Flatfish from Worden Lures to produce a nice pile of fish for the Yarbrough's from McNeil Canyon. Son Brad won the trip in a ...
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Posted: 4/29/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to fish with Andy and Jeff. We were running some experiments. The leading edge of the Bar has been good in the early mornings. That's where the 9 pounder pictured below came from. The flat bel...
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Posted: 9/19/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
September 19th, 2010 Rained all night long and was expecting a wet morning 4 hrs. of fishing, but right as I was leaving the house the rain quit and wind died down. Got to the launch and I was plea...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/25/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today started fishing at Mack Bar with not very good luck..Saw alot of fish there but they were not interested in what I was offering so we moved into the trench to find the biters. Ended up Catching ...
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Posted: 10/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Laketrout bite has been a little different this last week on lake Chelan with spawning season approaching plus the change in weather has made it a little challenging at times. Troll the T-4 Purple F...
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Posted: 10/11/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains very good fishing for Laketrout and the ocassional Chinook..The Lower basin is the key spot..Minneapolis Beach, Mack Bar, The Trench(as us guides call it), Yacht Club all have prod...
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Posted: 10/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
October 23rd, 2010 We started fishing the Southshore of the "Trench" in the lower basin of Lake Chelan today to catch a dandy laker to start the day. The bite was slow so I decided to go deep or go h...
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Posted: 10/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on Beautiful Lake Chelan!!! Started fishing in the lower basin where the bite was On but the laketrout were hitting real lite..Caught 4 and then moved to Mack Bar to find some big Arches bu...
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Posted: 10/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
October 30th, 2010 Today was a another great morning of Catching on Lake Chelan..Started fishing today at the Yacht Club targeting depths from 130 to 180ft to find some nice Laketrout.. Moved from ...
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Posted: 10/31/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
October 31st, 2010 It was another Out-standing Fishing Adventures this morning with the beautiful sunrise and oh ya The catching was out of this world. We targeted Mack Bar today to have a banner ...
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Posted: 11/14/2010
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today Fishing was challenging with the wind and the cold but managed to bang more after 12:00pm...Started fishing on Mack Bar to boat a few then moved to the Yacht Club to pick up 1 more then decided ...
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Posted: 11/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
November 26th, 2010 What a fun day fishing with the"Snow" most of the day which didn't affect the Laketrout bite in the lower basin of lake Chelan.. We targeted fish in 200 to 220ft depths below R...
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Posted: 12/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy had a great morning mostly up at the Yacht Club. We've got some nice kokanee eating Lakers up there. Pulling purple glow Rushin' Salmon Wobblers at 1.2 to 1.4 mph within 10 feet of the bottom i...
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Posted: 12/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy got to take Tim Witter and David Wilson out after Jerrod had them Steelheading the day before. The brought the bite with them. Andy pounded mostly Kingfisher Lite spoons by Silver Horde up by t...
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Posted: 12/20/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing Double Splatter Back colored Kingfisher Lite spoons at 1.5 to 2 mph worked today for Andy. He fished them within 10 feet of the bottom up by the Yacht Club. It was a great morning of winter ...
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