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By: Lingking
Posted: 5/3/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Day 3 of my seven day vacation. With the terrible kokanee fishing I decided to try my hand at lakers. Pulled to fish off of mak bar early on a glow Ace-hi with a big glow smile blade in front. Both...
Posted: 5/3/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL day at Chelan! Took out a great mom and daughter team and ended up with our 20 Kokanee. Including a couple MONSTERS! One over 20"!! The Super Dipping Sauce did the trick again al...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 4/12/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Friday through Sunday morning. I camped with my family for my birthday at the state park.
Friday morning i fished from around 6-10am with only 2 bites and no fish to the boat. ...
By: afk
Posted: 4/13/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I put in at the State park at 06:30. It was calm and crisp! I started just below the Yatch Club. Within 5 min I had the first fish half way to the boat from 120'! Half way was the way the rest of the ...
Posted: 4/15/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to the Jones family for fishing with us in the AM, the Tsun family for fishing the afternoon and the Hernandez family for supervising Jeff on the Kokanee outing. The trench continues to produc...
Posted: 4/20/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Chelan on Friday for a little pre derby scouting trip. Went at it solo and got a bit of a late start, launching at about 7:00am. By 8:30 I had my 10 Kokanee in the boat and was done for the day. F...
Posted: 4/20/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First day of the Something Catchy Kokanee Derby on Chelan. Fishing started at around 6am for my boat. I stayed in the same lower basin location as I fished the previous day. Planned on staying out all...
By: Salmonids
Posted: 4/15/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2022
Hot Spots: 1
Another great trip out to chelan in the books. Got to play around from 12th - 15th. Fishing should only get better. Haven’t been there in a while and it’s the transition period when fish start to move...
By: Yakhusker
Posted: 5/21/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2021
Hot Spots: 0
My brother-in-law and I took a couple of his friends out to catch some kokes. He told me they weren’t the fishing type but wanted to try it and have fun. Wow did we have fun! Launched at Old Mill Pa...
By: Salmonids
Posted: 5/12/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2021
Hot Spots: 3
Made it out to Chelan May 9 - 12 with family. Haven’t been out there in a while. Fishing was amazing. Get out there if you can. It is a big lake with many potential areas to hold fish. Viewing past po...
Posted: 5/13/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Warren gave Susan a Valentine's Day gift of fishing with me on Mothers Day. The early bite was hot in deepwater. We worked depths from 250 to 400 feet! Jeff drifts baited with Pikeminnow worked bes...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 5/31/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I’m not sure there are words that explain the Kokanee fishing on Lake Chelan right now but I will try. Outstanding, awesome, lights out are just a few words that come to mind. When you can start fishi...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 5/20/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I hadn't been out to Chelan since fishing reopened and as expected the fishing was fantastic. I focused in an area off Wapato Point and though it took me longer than normal to find a school once I did...
By: ElliottM
Posted: 5/27/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Gorgeous day to be on Chelan, but not the most productive day ever. We launched at Chelan SP and were on the water around 7:30am. We weren't marking any fish on the south side, so we headed to the wes...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 6/4/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to head to Chelan and give the Kokanee fishing a try! What an awesome fishery! We focused on the lower basin area right in town and trolled around Darnells to Lakeside. Fish were a bit s...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 6/15/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We took a family adventure with fellow guide and friend Tyler Stahl up to Chelan! The kokanee fishing continues to be phenomenal! We fished Brad's Kokanee dodgers and small squid spinners for limits...
By: ElliottM
Posted: 6/26/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Launched in town approximately 8:30am and saw boats by Lakeside park, so started trolling there. We marked a lot of fish and got a couple bites but no hook-ups. We saw only one fish netted and talked ...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 4/9/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan is heating up. With the Kokanee moving down lake the Mackinaw are following. I am starting to see fish in small schools on the bottom. I have been fishing plugs and Superfly Flies with a ...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 4/14/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2019
Hot Spots: 0
So once again headed over this week to Lake Chelan to participate in the annual something catchy derby with hopes to have better luck than last year when my power head went out on big motor and knocke...
Posted: 6/2/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Look Mike and Rob two posts in one day. Lol. All kidding aside I try to post reports but seem to get side tracked. I will work on that in the future. Today we fished Lake Chelan. We started today ...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 7/1/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished three days last week and boated 206lbs of Mac. We started early trolling 150-175 FOW with Superfly flies, a wiggle bill tipped with herring. I also tried plugs and caught a few fish. I troll...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 5/9/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well Lake Chelan has been interesting lately. The fish still have not schooled up like normal. I believe it’s because of a late bloom of zooplankton and the feed has not moved down into the basin ye...
By: Cbass765
Posted: 4/15/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Made a trip to chelan this weekend to target some smallmouths. Hit the water at about 6:30am, fished the rock wall along the highway and around wapato point throwing crankbaits, plastics and jigs... n...
By: OGFboat
Posted: 4/4/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take the extended road trip to Chelan yesterday, and it was worth it. Had to launch at Manson due to my primary launch being closed until May for resurfacing of the parking lot??? THAT suc...
Posted: 2/1/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After wowing the crowds at the Western Washington Sportsman Show, Jeff took Pepe out on the 30th to make sure the Kokanee were still there, then took fishing legends Mike Hall and Bobby Loomis out to ...