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Cle Elum Lake Report
Kittitas County, WA

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05/04/2013
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Mackinaw
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05/05/2013
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doing this from dictaphone on a smartphone so not sure how it come out..fished the lake Cle Elum Mackinaw tourney on Saturday. blastoff was 8 o'clock.maybe 40 boats, Im not sure. My buddy and i fished with spoons and Kwickfish. About 30 minutes into it I had a nice Mack on fishing 170' in 180' of water. Fish got all the way up top and about 30' behind the boat. Got a glimpse of a large wjlhite underbody, and once his head broke the water....the spoon came out. ( used Bodofishe's favorite spotted spoon..thanks for the tip) bummer. My buddy boated a smaller mack at 1lb 8oz.
Water was calm until about noon. Wind picked up of course.
Beautiful weather. From what i could hear, folks were catching fish. I have not heard how it ended up over all? If anybody knows please post up something in the forum. I be ame frustrated when one of my Scotty manual downriggers broke. The numerical depth counter got bunged up and crushed..would not turn anymore. VERY difficult to know your depth and avoid stumps etc. We pulled out at 1:30. Kinda wish i went to the weigh-off, but the family had arrived, so out we went.
Ran into walaker, Bo, good to see you, hope u did OK.


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Mike Carey
5/5/2013 6:31:00 PM
Quad, I had to replace my manual counter too. Check out eBay
Kokaholic
5/5/2013 8:42:00 PM
call scotty lifetime warranty 1 800 214 0141
MotoBoat
5/5/2013 10:12:00 PM
Quad, call scotty by phone. Or, John's sporting goods is a authorized repair facility for Scotty dr's. Free fix due to the over the top warranty! No recite needed for the warrenty to apply, just need a scotty dr to drop off. I do not recall John's phone number, but that is easy for you to find.
Bo
5/5/2013 11:27:00 PM
Good to see you out there too Quadfather. Anyhow, see Tom at Sportco in Fife. He'll hook you up.
:)
oneshot
5/6/2013 10:03:00 AM
HOW high is the lake? as in water level?
The Quadfather
5/6/2013 10:37:00 AM
It is full and then some. The campground at the top of the lake is usually able to walk out to the upper river. This is flooded in as usual when full. Although they must be spilling the dam this week, because the lower cle elum river is about 80% full. Way up from a month ago.
jabba114
5/10/2013 7:12:00 PM
There was not very many fish caught. The only fish I actually boated was 7.48 lbs and good enough for second place. The first place fish was only 8 something. I don't think there was more than 15 fish caught. I have fished that tourney for the past three years. Every year I have pre fished it and post fished it and done very well. Something happens on the day of the tourney. I am not sure if its all the activity that isn't usually there but the bite turns off compared to before and after the tourney. The wind died down later in the afternoon and it ended up being a gorgeous day.
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