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Posted: 5/30/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Derek Gill brought his buddies out and fished with Jeff. They worked the area below Wapato Pt with squid rigs to catch their fish. Depths of 150 to 185 worked best. Speeds of 1.2 to 1.6 triggered t...
By: billdance
Posted: 7/20/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Chelan Thursday and Friday. Overall pretty slow. The usual areas were not producing. Caught fish where there were rocks and deep docks on crankbaits. Fishing was best right before dark Thursday...
By: afk
Posted: 3/15/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Played hooky from work today and hit the water with Mcfisherson13. The weather was beautiful. We fished from 95'-210' deep. Boated 2 fish soon after we got started. Ace Hi fly got the dink & U-20 got...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 10/30/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It's been a few years since I've fished Chelan late in the year for bass. So after spending a couple hours yesterday cleaning up the boat from a tournament, I was awake this morning and said what the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/4/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I promised I would get some pics on the site from our Nov. trip to Lake Chelan for smallies. I hope the pics take. If not, well, I guess you all will have to go and find out for yourselves the quality...
By: chris_823
Posted: 5/23/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Late report but here it is just the same, trolling for lake trout on the Chelan side of Wapato Point around 10am, perfect day. Rod bend straight down, figured I had snagged a tree on the bottom until...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 2
This report covers Saturday evening, Sunday all day, and Monday morning.
After our Epic Trip of a month ago, I was pretty excited to be able to return to Lake Chelan and go after more of those amaz...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for JoAnn and my last trip to Lake Chelan this year for kokanee. It’s been a unexpected and fun spring, and we have enjoyed the lake’s beauty and great kokanee fishing.
We arrived Sa...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I had the pleasure of fishing with Jeff Witkowski, who is a guide that works with Anton Jones of Darrell and Dad’s Family Guide Service. Our target was Lake Chelan Lake Trout.
We left th...
By: MotoBoat
Posted: 4/26/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Word is the fish are scattered. Small schools of fish when you do find them. Catch a few out of a school, try and stay on them. They move around. Making fishing hit and miss. But generally slow.
S...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 10/20/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Dave Graybill had mentioned Lake Chelan and potential for good rainbow fishing this week, so i felt it was finally time to get this lake off my to do list, and give it a shot. started targeting trout...
By: emrobi
Posted: 5/2/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great time fishing lake Chelan this morning for kokanee. A wedding ring with smiley blade 8-10" behind a 4" dodger 45 - 60 feet down provided most of the hook-ups. The main action occurred betwe...
Posted: 12/7/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wow it's cold outside here in our Lake Chelan Valley! But the cold temps have not affected the Laketrout bite at all. Dragging the Ace Hi-Fly next to the bottom in the Trench has been real productive....
By: San Genuario
Posted: 4/11/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2014
Hot Spots: 1
First run at chelan. About 15 boats in the lower end. A few fish caught. In talking to six boats at the dock..... Not many fish. Some got skunked. I picked up three trout on kokanee gear.. I cau...
Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Just need to show the pics from Wolfgang Janas and Adam Neff trip. The location I was in when I submitted the report initially would not allow the picture upload. Refer to my previous 9/15 report fo...
Posted: 7/13/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Mackinaw fishing on Lake Chelan continues Hot, just like the weather. We are fishing the Bar early, the head of the trench or off of Wapato Pt. in the middle of the day and in the indeterminate flat ...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 1/3/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
well the weather called for calm and cool, but i think there was a bit more wind than i had anticipated. I wasn't blown out, but in order to control my troll better i only trolled with the wind. i f...
By: rojomojo
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Here's the quick story: Stayed at State Park, fished three days, didn't get into the fish until the third day with 11. Go to the Yacht Club! The third day gets a 3, the others were 1's.
Came here t...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Launched at state park at 430am. motored down to yacht club area across from Wapato point, started with lines at 35' and 55'. line at 55' with orange glow crappie tube, orange bead and orange glow s...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/5/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Drove up to the Mill Bay launch, what a nice facility. Paid the ten bucks to launch and park, boy was the wind blowing! Put the boat in and about got beat to death; be sure to put on the bumpers as ...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
scratched the the kokanee itch this morning. started early as usual, 3 fish by 530am, 2 rainbow c&r, 1 12" kok in the box,then i had to look around for them again, getting bites here and there, Red b...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 5/15/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
early riser, fishing at 5am, started out slow, then i started getting bites fairly conistently, i ended up going 6 for 14, with 3 fish getting lost at the net (grr), and another got 10' from the boat....
Posted: 4/20/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Second day of the Chelan Kokanee Derby found myself and partner Scott sitting in 10th place for overall boat weight and not on the board for big fish. Though we crushed the field for time fished/numbe...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 4/20/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Whew! What a weekend! Three of my good buddies joined me this weekend for the Something Catchy Derby on Lake Chelan. This report will break down three days of fishing.
Friday- 5 stars
We began t...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 4/11/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Just got done with 3 days in Chelan and holy smokes was fishing hot! Wednesday was a bit of a struggle in the morning but we got them dialed in towards the afternoon. Then Thursday and Friday was a wi...