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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/3/2010
Hot Spots: 2
We worked the centerline of Lake Chelan from the 200' depth just uplake of the Yacht Club in an uplake direction to about the 380' contour. This takes just about an hour per pass. We averaged about ...
Posted: 2/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Laketrout fishing in Lake Chelan remains very productive. I am cathing fish in the normal Locations but today I found that there is more Laketrout showing up on Mack Bar now which is strange to me to ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My "pinch me" week continues. Prime time for big lakers as well as nice numbers continues here on Lake Chelan. We worked exactly the same pattern as the other days this week. Purple glow Rushin' Sa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/6/2010
Hot Spots: 3
And the beat goes on. This is prime time to catch big kokanee eating Mackinaw. To try and put it in perspective we get about one fish over ten pounds for every forty fish caught over the course of t...
Posted: 2/7/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well had a couple of Fellows out that just wanted to target Chinook..Worked the trench for a half hour and Bam..This fish hit the Ace Hi-Fly off Rocky Point 111 ft deep..
I stayed on the edges of t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well the start this morning was slower than it's been, but we produced a 10+ pound fish among 6 lakers. Any day you are at 1.5 fish per hour and a fish over 10, it is a great day! Both guys caught t...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 2/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My Hats of to you Joe, and to you Anton. You guys have the touch when it comes to the Lake Chelan Deep water fishing. I got on the Lake about 0830-900 and trolled until 400 PM. Trolled the trench off ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun and goofy day. We had one big 3 line dog knot and had another boat catch our outrigger lines, (how can I expect anyone to know how far back those buggers are to get the bottom in 320 feet ...
Posted: 2/11/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started this morning at Millbay launch at 7:30 am..Motored down the lake off Pat and Mikes and started fishing in 170 ft. of water where we caught our first Laketrout..Slowly worked our way into the t...
Posted: 7/12/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well all I can say is that the Laketrout Fishing is on fire here on Lake Chelan..I have been averaging in the morning trips way above my normal average and also I am still mixing in a Chinook here and...
Posted: 4/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took Jim Chadwick of Issaquah and his buddy out. We snicked a fish off the Bar and kept moving. The indeterminate flat between the Bar and the Trench was the best of it for me today. Most fish came...
Posted: 4/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a beautiful morning of fishing today here on Lake Chelan..
Started today off dropping into the Trench in the lower Basin and before I could get all rods out we hooked up on a dandy laketrout..10...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 2
John Arnott and his son Sam (9) were nice enough to come out with me for a few hours. Due to travel plans we did a mid day trip. The best of it was the potholes below the Bar and above the Trench. ...
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was different from yesterday..My Father had a saying that he used alot when we were out fishing..We would catch fish in one area one day and then go there the next and not get a bite he would sa...
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding the lower end of Lake Chelan with the U20 luminous chartreuse flatfish was once again productive. Keep speeds between 1.4 and 1.6 mph and stay tight to the bottom. What a wonderfully consis...
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Flatfish worked in locations up around the Yacht Club, off of Sunnybank and in the Trench. Greg Lyons brought some of the Stemelt gang out to fish with us. It blew early, but the wind laid down and ...
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy pounded away from Sunnybank into the lower basin to produce a nice bunch of lakers for the Herald gang. The little F7 purple glow flatfish was the best producer. Stay close to the bottom and sl...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a few hours free, so hooked up and put in at the public launch at the lower end of the lake. Motored up to the lakeside area, searched there and across the lake at the chelan shores resort. Nada, ...
Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Mother nature has been the bugger this week with the high winds here on Lake Chelan but I have managed to get out and continue fishing for the Laketrout
Today Mom nature was kind to me..Flat waters w...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few hours on the Lake chasing Kokes, with not much to show for it. Talked with chelanlaketrout, and decided to try some tips he shared for the Macks. Trolled from Rocky point down to the lower...
Posted: 5/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fooled around trying to catch Kokanee without success. Went to find lakers off the face of Manson Bay. That went OK. Look in water from 160 to 190 feet deep. It's a steep slope. It's nice to be b...
Posted: 5/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The bite was real good last night on Lake Chelan..Started trolling at Pat and Mikes, and barely got the rods down and we tripled up on the ledge dropping into the trench...We ended the 4 hrs in the ev...
Posted: 5/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2010
Hot Spots: 2
We had a great day and lovely weather on Chelan today. The water temp is 51-52 F at the surface. We saw scads of small kokanee surface activity, but did not get them to bite. We got a nice pile of ...
Posted: 5/11/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
T4 and U20 purple glow flatfish pounded the Mackinaw once the wind slowed down. We worked the trench with excellent results. Thanks to the Halls of Boca Grande, Fl for sharing their vacation with me...
Posted: 5/11/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We really slammed the monster kokanee this afternoon. Flashlites, wedding rings and Fire Corn were the ticket. Lakeside is still the best producer.
(Actually the kokanee fishing is pretty tough an...