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Posted: 12/3/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Laketrout fishing has been a bit challenging but I have been getting my customers some fish...I will say that recently I had the toughest day on the water in the last 4 yrs of me guiding...The Ace Hi-...
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Posted: 12/6/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Ok, being a Guide most folks think my Freezer is stuffed full of Fish! This is not true because all the fish I catch usually go home with the customers..Family and friends expect Smoked Fish for Xmas ...
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Posted: 12/8/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the deep water above the Yacht Club today and it paid off! The Ace Hi-Fly worked well along with Joe's Bait Rig! Found Laketrout from 280ft to 350ft today..Big fish hit at 300ft. Thanks Bobby a...
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Posted: 12/11/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The rumors of a short Steelhead season has had me on the river for the last several weekends, but I finally got to get back out on Chelan on Sunday morning. We started fishing about 8 am in the lower ...
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Posted: 12/11/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/9/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Fished Sat and Sun with some friends. Out othe 4 of us, 1 had been on the lake and none of us had ever fished for Makinaw. Learned a lot about the lake and how to be better geared up for that kind of ...
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Posted: 12/15/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Tinnesand's went out fishing with Jeff on a blustery day. They caught fish off the shoulders of the Bar in depths of 150 to 200 feet deep trolling Mack's Cha Cha Squidders at 1.5 mph. The heater...
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Posted: 12/21/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan was good to us again! So was the weather considering we were supposed to get about a foot of snow between Wed and Thursday. We were on the water around 8:30 and started off with a bang! Wh...
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Posted: 12/29/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Laketrout bite on Lake Chelan is picking up for good numbers out of the Lower Basin.. The Joe's Bait Rig along with the Ace Hi-fly is the Baits! We have been fishing depths from 160 to 220ft in th...
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Posted: 12/31/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The bite on Lake Chelan has been great!! We Fished both the Lower Basin and the Yacht Club Saturday and found both places to be very productive! The Ace Hi-Fly and Macks Lure Smile Blade combo has bee...
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Posted: 1/1/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Franson gang shared their three generation Lake Chelan winter fishing trip with me. We worked the indeterminate flat in the lower basin as well as deep water above the Yacht Club to catch a nice ...
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Posted: 1/2/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The bite on Chelan is still fantastic right now! Friends and family have been requesting fresh fillets, so my girlfriend and I hit the water to do a little fishing for ourselves! We picked up a few fi...
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Posted: 1/2/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a Great Day of Catching on Lake Chelan Today!!! 1 Chinook, 1 Rainbow and 13 laketrout with a Hawg laketrout mixed in! Holy Smoker full! The Ace Hi-fly and Joe's Bait Rig did it again. We hit the ...
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Posted: 1/6/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was another Catching Trip today on Lake Chelan with RJ, AJ (Twins) and Dad again!!! 13 laketrout for the boys! It is always a Treat taking these boys out on Lake Chelan!!! Ace Hi-Fly worked again! ...
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Posted: 1/10/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What an outstanding day of fishing on Lake Chelan! The Ace Hi-Fly and Joe's bait Rig worked great! The Trench produced for us and mack Bar. Found most fish in the Trench in 190 to 240ft. Thanks so muc...
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Posted: 1/14/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Needed some fish for the smoker so Bobby and I hit the Yacht club in search of Walter today but he eluded us again! We did manage to snake out 8 Laketrout and 1 rainbow today. Bobby caught his deepest...
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Posted: 1/16/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The Bite is On!!! We hammered the Laketrout today on Lake Chelan! The Trench and mack Bar both produced great numbers! The Ace Hi-fly and Joe's bait rig both worked. We caught fish from 119 to 240ft d...
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Posted: 1/19/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Another great morning of Laketrout fishing on Lake Chelan!!! 11 laketrout in 4 hours. The Ace Hi-fly was what the fish wanted today. We caught fish in the Trench and Mack Bar today! Thanks so much to ...
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Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Cindy & Sean Clark brought out Chuck Taylor and Dave Kortendick to fish with me on Lake Chelan. To avoid the strong cross-lake breeze in the early morning we headed uplake by the Yacht Club. Althoug...
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Posted: 1/22/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to take a stab at getting a big fish to freeze for the Puyallup Show so I asked good buddy Al Brooks to come out with me. We got out at the crack of 11:00AM. We trolled a Mack's Cha Cha Squ...
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Posted: 1/26/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day of Laketrout Fishing or I mean Catching on Lake Chelan!!! Big fish today tipped the scales at 14lbs.4 oz. and Jennifer Baughman (MOM) caught this bad boy. The Ace Hi-Fly worked well!...
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Posted: 1/29/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The catching on Lake Chelan was challenging but at the end we boated a 15lb. 10 oz and a 13lb. Laketrout in the last 20 minutes. We caught fish today on the Ace Hi-fly and the K-lure spoon! We caught ...
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Posted: 2/3/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We had a crazy day on Lake Chelan Sunday Morning!! It was so incredibly foggy in the lower basin that for 95% of our fishing trip we NEVER saw shore!!! We were operating completely off of the GPS on m...
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Posted: 2/6/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
If you have not heard yet, Lake Chelan produced another STATE RECORD LAKETROUT February 4th, 2013. Congrats to Phil Colyar from Wenatchee Wa. on catching this Monster 35lb. 10 oz. Laketrout from Lake...
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Posted: 2/9/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan was good to us again but at times it was tough to get the laketrout to bite but we managed to boat a Nice fish today..We fished the Yacht Club and Trench to find our fish. Thanks so much t...
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Posted: 2/13/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Laketrout fishing on Chelan remains good catching in the lower basin. The Ace Hi-Fly has been working along with the K-Lure Spoon and the T-4 Flatfish in the Purple glow. The Trench has been producing...
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