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Posted: 2/25/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Manson's star Restauranteurs out for a day prospecting Kokanee in the lower half of Lake Chelan. There are a wide range of sizes with the majority being foot long footballs and the biggest ...
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Posted: 2/28/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
What to do, what to do? Walter B and Walter G Morgan came ouit with Brian and Max Scoggin to fish with Jeff. They worked Macks for a while then went after the newly arrived Kokanee, then went back t...
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Posted: 3/3/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Josh McAlvey and Sean Ranno decideor d to do some Mack fishing with Jeff for some "guy time". Shower avoidance, I think, would be the way to put it. Jeff says that if you want to know if it's going ...
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Posted: 3/4/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is a two day report. We arrived in Chelan late afternoon on Sunday and began fishing on the down lake side of mill bay, working towards rocky point. The water was glass calm and the sun was ou...
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Posted: 3/6/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan continues to kick out good numbers of Laketrout with that occasional rainbow mixed in. The Ace Hi-Fly by Silverhorde is and probably always be the bait of choice on my boat! We trolled the...
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Posted: 3/10/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
got to city launch at 7am, motored on up to yacht club area and started fishing. I was quickly joined by others fishing the same area. I have pretty good action. the weather was great, with less win...
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Posted: 3/17/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well I guess I will send out a report since none of the other boats did for this weekend. This is more of a caution report than a fishing report. First and foremost, Watch out for drifting wood!! I ha...
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Posted: 3/24/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The Poggie Club guys made the annual March foray to Chelan to get some Lakers for the smoker. We pulled glow Needlefish squiddy's baited with a piece of Pikeminnow along Colyar ledge at 1.2 mph. The...
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Posted: 3/26/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Mia Bordner (11) and brother Charlie (9) brought out their dad, Burke Bordner for a morning fishing with Anton. They won the trip by writing a Fathers Day essay for KOZI last year. It was a great mo...
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Posted: 3/27/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Chris, Ryland and Connor Danhof came out and fished with Jeff for some Father / Sons bonding time. They pounded the trench with squid rigs at 1mph within 5 feet of the bottom to get their fish. They...
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Posted: 3/28/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Frank Gallo and his friend Dave fished with Jeff on a beautiful Sunday morning, pounding squid rigs into the bottom along Colyar ledge. They used Gold Star Needlefish Squid rigs tied with a big /glow...
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Posted: 4/1/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan continues to produce Laketrout in the lower basin. Fish the Ace Hi-Fly by Silverhorde tight to the bottom to be productive. The Kokanee fishing is slow right now but I do expect it to pick...
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Posted: 4/1/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Pepe' Hernandez brought out Isai Rodriguez (10) and Lauro Rodriguez to fish with Anton. They pounded away at Colyar Ledge for the morning, but mid-day the bite died down and they moved to Manson Bay....
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Posted: 4/4/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and I decided to prospect some for Kokanee. We fished: Off of Rocky Pt, by the Monument and up in the Narrows. We caught 2 fish and had two others on, on Mack's Mini Cha Cha Squidders in Orang...
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Posted: 4/4/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Neil and Barry came out with us today for some Mack fishing. We saw some suspended arches up at Colyar ledge and threw a cheater rod out. We got a few Macks and nice Kokanee then moved to Manson Bay...
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Posted: 4/4/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Finally made a early season scouting trip up to Chelan. I'm with Anton on his reports. The fishing was slow and really had to work at finding fish, but we caught some quality fish. So the good news...
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Posted: 4/4/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Day two of my fishing adventure with Dad. Got on the water smoothly today and started fishing at about 6:15 and off the water at noon. Started off Rocky Point. At about 6:50 my rod got absolutely cr...
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Posted: 4/5/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Tom and Eric fished Colyar ledge with Anton. Pounded depths from the 230's out to about 315'. Stayed with the same Silver Horde / Gold Star Needlefish Squiddy and Ace Hi with Mack's Lures Smile Blad...
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Posted: 4/6/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Father and Son Olson's came out and fished with Anton. We pounded Vista del Jones with Needlefish squiddy's baited with a piece of Pikeminnow within 5 feet of the bottom. We mostly trolled within 5 ...
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Posted: 4/6/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan has been very good Laketrout Fishing in the Lower Basin. Fishing the Abyss above the Yacht Club in depths from 220 to 380ft deep to find the fish. Managed to bang a Big Fish this morning o...
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Posted: 9/20/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wayne Worzella along with Tom and Kara Klobucarar all of Snohomish fished with Jeff in the morning. They pounded the fringes of the Bar from 160 to 210 feet and had good fortune on 2 to 5 pound laker...
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Posted: 9/22/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Joe Dobyns of Renton and Cynthia Denny of Seattle came out and fished with Jeff. They hit the upper end of the trench from 180 to 210 feet deep. They caught the big one on a Worden Lures T4 Flatfish...
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Posted: 9/24/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Kevin Chappel and Craig Farley came out and fished with Jeff today after deciding that discretion was the better part of valor with yesterdays wind. Jeff got them into the fish by working the fringes...
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Posted: 9/27/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Mark Endresen of Winthrop came out with John Endresen of Kingston for a mornings fishing with Jeff. The weatherman lied unless Chelan can whitecap with wind under 5mph. Tough conditions, but the End...
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Posted: 10/5/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
World (ok, regionally) famous writer and friend, Terry Rudnick brought his wife (Roberta) and friend Darell Midles out to fish with Jeff. They caught a nice pile of fish and got to tell loads of stor...
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