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By: TomD
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Monday was super windy... I didn't even try to go out... hardly any boats on the lake.
Tuesday started out pretty calm. Leaving Wapato Pt, I headed past Anton fishing on the Bar and started tryi...
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Mack Bar let me down today, but the indeterminate flat between the Bar and the trench was very productive. Depths of 180 to 225 produced best. A couple of fish came out of the trench. While s...
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy worked hard for his fish today. He picked up fish on the Bar, in the Flat, up at the Yacht Club and in the trench. But it was tough sledding. The "day maker" was a 19 pounder taken just off of...
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Little F7 Purple Glow Flatfish on the outrigger rod produced a couple of 10 pounders. The Shannon family of Chelan caught 5 other fish on a glorious Chelan summer morning. We also caught fish on T4 ...
Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan continues to produce nice Lake trout in the lower Basin of Lake Chelan.I have been trolling the Ace Hi-fly by Silverhorde to be most productive. The kokanee have showed up but it is real d...
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A run from the Bar down through the trench was productive pulling purple glow flatfish in the downrigger rods and Kingfisher Lite spoons on the outrigger rods. 1.3 to 1.5 mph was the speed. We worke...
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy pounded the lower basin leaning towards the Minneapolis side with Mack's Lures smile blade in front of a B2 Squid baited with a strip of Pikeminnow. It was a great morning to get a nice pile of ...
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again the area between Minneapolis and the trench was productive for Andy and his crew for the day. Those B2's baited with a fillet of Pikeminnow was productive. The bite really picked up in th...
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I got to pound that Minneapolis pattern with a combination of hootchies and B2 squids baited with strip baits. It worked very well. Most of the fish came between 140 and 180 feet deep, trolling from...
Posted: 5/19/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a great day of catching on Lake Chelan for the Laketrout on Mack Bar..We started fishing at 7:00 am and I think it took 10 minutes and boated the first Laketrout.
Ended the day with 14 tota...
Posted: 5/20/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Lynch brothers were nice enough to share the twins birthday party with us. We worked the South Shore of the lower basin all the way from the Blue Roof Condos to just above Sunnybank. Depths of 1...
Posted: 5/20/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The little F7 Luminous Chartreuse Flatfish outproduced everything else on Chelan this monring. We fought wind while working from just above Sunnybank to just below Minneapolis. Depths of 130 to 200 ...
Posted: 5/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was a worth waiting for. Our crew got "blown out" by the wind last evening, so they were back at it this morning. The pictured pile of fish were on the dock before 9:30. Trolling baited Ac...
Posted: 5/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2010
Hot Spots: 3
Pulling pikeminnow baited B2 squids behind a wiggle fin produced good numbers again in the evening. We pounded the 140's to 180's water off of Sunnybank again. Speeds of 1.3 mph to 1.6 mph worked be...
Posted: 5/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again pounding Sunnybank with those baited B2's was the ticket. Depths of 130 to 190 was best. We worked right around 1.5mph. As always try to stay within 10 feet of the bottom. What a great ...
Posted: 5/23/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those little B2 squids with the small wiggle fin in front baited with a bit of Northern Pikeminnow was once again the ticket. We started out the morning pounding the pattern around Sunnybank. We the...
By: bionic_one
Posted: 5/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday I tried jigging for Macks. Couldn't ever find them with my FF. Looked for them in the area east of the state park with no success.
Sunday I attempted trolling for macks. Used the Ace Hi...
Posted: 5/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Glow B2 squid rigs baited with a bit of Pikeminnow once again produced great numbers around Sunnybank. Pound away at the 130's to the 190's at about 1.5mph. It has been great out there. Andy did a ...
Posted: 5/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The baited B2's once again caught Lakers around Sunnybank. Another great morning. This pattern is difficult to troll accurately, but when you're on 'em, they'll bite.
Anton Jones - Darrell and ...
Posted: 5/27/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it finally slowed down off of Sunnybank a bit. Andy put the Beamis' on big fish on the Bar and numbers right off the tip of Wapato Point in spite of pretty steady rain all day long. As always ...
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the fishing around Sunnybank continued to cool. We got a nice 8.5 pound fish to bite early on the lower end of the Bar. We plucked a couple more quality fish on 2 more passes, but that left us...
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy ran his guys along the same pattern with about the same results as I had. He ran B2 squids firts over the Bar (picked up a nice big fish) then over to Sunnybank. Bar depths are 119 to 135 and S...
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today we started on Mack bar and ended on Mack bar..The Laketrout bite was fast and furious at the start but then slowed at around 10:00am. The Ace Hi-fly out fished evrything else again today.. We ha...
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pulling those B2's along the bottom over at Sunnybank and the face of Manson Bay produced a nice pile of smallish fish. We couldn't get bit on the Bar this AM. We used a chunk of Northern Pikeminnow...
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our little F7 purple glow flatfish on the outrigger rod saved the day. It got 3 of the 5 fish that we put in the boat including the 2 biggest ones. We started on the Bar (no surprise there). We got...