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By: Aaron
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Cassandra, Noah and I dropped lines about 7am just off the beach from the State Park. Headed east towards the Monument area. The action was not fast and furious. Picked up 10 Kokanee ranging from 11" ...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 3
So this is a three day report from 4/29-5-1, we headed over for the NWFR get together and arrived in town Friday around noon and got camp set up at Chelan city park. We then ran over to the burger jo...
Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the Southam family out for their annual excursion with us. He put them on the Mack's at Colyar Ledge. Fishing at 1.1 mph with Jeff Drifts within 5 feet of the bottom in depths of 180 to 24...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
got out this morning for a few hours. started near the state park working the edges from 80-250 FOW, caught fish from 30-60' down the wire fairly consistent, lost 1 kok at the boat while trying to ju...
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Roger and Roger Calvert were nice enough to come out and provide adult supervision for Jeff so he could do some Mack fishing. They worked Jeff Drift's along Colyar Ledge, in the Narrows and along Man...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is a fishing report for the long weekend of the Chelan Get-together. I fished Friday afternoon solo, Saturday morning (until 9:30am) with my friend Rob and his daughters, and Sunday until early a...
Posted: 5/11/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Cousin Robert Schlief of Boise was nice enough to come out and help me thin out the lower basin Mackinaw on Lake Chelan for a couple of hours. Working tight to the bottom at 1mph with Jeff drifts in ...
Posted: 5/13/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff wanted to find a more consistent PM Kokanee pattern so he convinced "Blueberry" Kari and the intrepid Pepe' Hernandez to come out for a few afternoon hours. He found them in the 30's deep over 6...
Posted: 5/17/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers May 14th and 15th. Our many time repeat customers, Dick Thaden with Dave & Josh Tripp came out with us on a beautiful Saturday morning. We pounded Colyar Ledge then finished along...
Posted: 5/19/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The Finck's came out to fish with Jeff again. They wanted to target Kokanee. They even let Jeff get his fish! Then they moved in closer and got some Cutts. Mack's Lures Kokanee Pro Wedding Rings o...
Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers trips from 5/19 to 5/21. Colyar Ledge and the Slide to the slide have produced for us in the early mornings. Later in the morning, the face of Manson Bay and the Doughnut Hole has...
By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 6/4/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 2
NWFR Spring Gathering - A Fish Princess Adventure
Mike and the whole NWFR team put on another first class event for those of us that made the trek to Chelan for the weekend! Thanks to the NWFR team...
By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 6/4/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 3
NWFR Spring Gathering - A Fish Princess Adventure
We were up bright and early on Saturday morning at about 0430 with plans to fish the sunrise bite then come back in for breakfast. Well, the fish h...
By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 6/5/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 2
NWFR Spring Gathering - A Fish Princess Adventure
We closed our Lake Chelan adventure for 2016 in style.
Knowing we would have to pack up and break camp by mid-day we got on the water about 0600...
By: Dr. T
Posted: 6/12/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday we took our new fishing boat out to organize, setup and learn the onboard systems. The type of down riggers, GPS/sounder, TR-1 are all new to me so I had a great time figuring them out. The...
By: senior dragon
Posted: 6/13/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I have never posted a report before, but have been a faithful member and love checking the site every day. I don't care about pictures of me but I took my oldest daughter and one of my grandsons out S...
By: DjButler
Posted: 6/17/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Made the decision to wake up at 3 am and hit the road to Chelan for the weekend. Packed up all the gear and I was off. Absolutely epic out there in terms of bites. Started at 40-50 ft in 140-160 fow. ...
By: DjButler
Posted: 6/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This morning was a late start as I slept through my alarm. My buddy Aaron's text with a picture of two fish he had already caught woke me up and got me pumped. Finally on the water around 5:30. Wire s...
Posted: 6/20/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Aloha! This report will cover trips from June 18th and 19th.
Jeff has been pounding the Macks with a very respectable sprinkling of big fish. Working Colyar Ledge, the Narrows and the area around...
Posted: 6/20/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the Korish's out for a day of Mackinaw fishing. He had to work to get them to bite, but eventually, it worked out. Jeff drifts off the Bar fringe worked best. As always , fish within 5 fe...
By: DjButler
Posted: 6/23/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what an epic fishing trip. Got the pleasure of staying at a family friends beach house on Wapato point. Just like the first two reports posted the feeding frenzy was unreal. Basically if you drop...
Posted: 7/7/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers fishing from July1st to the 5th. Beautiful mornings with some wind followed by very windy afternoons was the story for the first 5 days of July. The Bar was our early morning loca...
Posted: 7/10/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers July 6th through the 8th. We have continued to work the Bar early and the doughnut hole later to get our fish. Fishing Jeff Drifts with a piece of Pikeminnow on the downrigger rod...
Posted: 7/15/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Many time repeat customer Ralph Sorenson brought a friend and came out to fish with Jeff. They had an epic day on the pond with big pile of fish and 2 "bigs". The big for the day was 17.8#. They po...
Posted: 7/19/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers fishing from 7/15 to 7/18. We are into the heart of the summer Bar bite on Lake Chelan. The Bar, the fringe of the Bar and Manson Bay have produced the majority of our fish during...