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Chapman Fishing Reports

Chapman
By: RedderShredder
Posted: 5/26/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This trip has been on the radar for awhile. Pretty excited to hear that a public launch was approved for this lake finally! But we decided that we didn't want to wait that long. My buddy and I hiked o...
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Chapman
By: bgolob18
Posted: 7/10/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to fish Chapman lake a couple days ago so I parked and hiked to the sw corner of the lake. It was very hot on the run in and I couldn't wait to get to the water and start fishing. I've bee...
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Chapman
By: lukejensen7
Posted: 7/16/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Hiked in on state land and Fished Chapman Lake finally. Big effort to get a boat in, however, fishing was good. Caught a 1.25lb Crappie that set a new personal record just trolling a spinner with a ...
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Chapman
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/18/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Chapman is closed to the public this year, found this out when I driven out to a locked front gate. I heard it as something to do with a public launch area. Lets hope that all the problems can be solv...
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Chapman
By: ridgerooster
Posted: 5/25/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My brother and I got out to Chapman at 5am Monday. Walked around the left side of the lake from resort. There are several places to fish where the dairy cows don't drink so the water is not muddied u...
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Chapman
By: tomnordman
Posted: 10/30/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Chapman for the 1st time this afternoon got there late 3:30 pm. it was cold a little windy and slight rain. having never fished here before I started trolling a red and black double hook w...
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Chapman
By: justinspotanske
Posted: 7/21/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first year kokanee fishing . Although they are a challenge to catch when you are learning . We fished (2 of us ) for 4 hours and we each caught our limit of ten each . very fun and good eat...
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Chapman
By: Wdstk3
Posted: 7/4/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well I can't say I was skunked now. Caught and released a Bow first trip around about 100 yards out from the launch. We ran around that end of the lake for a while then headed down the East side for...
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Chapman
By: Wdstk3
Posted: 6/30/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Chapman with my wife...nada...especially when others were catching. Bummer. My wife did get a good strike while on the way back to the launch to leave but that was it. One couple loading behi...
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Chapman
By: domyoji
Posted: 6/24/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the resort at 11am (lot later than I wanted to, but thats life), Paid my $10 and got a boat. Started on the south side and let the wind carry blow me down the lake dropping jigs and Power Lizza...
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Chapman
By: battleminnow
Posted: 6/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My dad, kids and I headed out to Chapman at about 3pm. We rented and rowed to the far end to hook some sure-fire fish for the kids... and struck out. Tried a number of different things but on this col...
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Chapman
By: the pimpologist
Posted: 6/8/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
well me and a buddy decided to try chapman again....( spent 7-10 am with no luck a couple days earlier)went from 9pm til anout midnight, spent most of the time last night by the "goose nest" with no l...
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Chapman
By: Nik
Posted: 6/2/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Rained literally all day and steady too not just showers. Still managed to coax a few bass out though. They weren't where they were supposed to be for the most part. All in all a pretty good day. ...
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Chapman
By: Shady136
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I love this lake. My buddy and I started fishing right about 9pm on the 14th and had our double limit by about 1:30am on the 15th. It would have been quicker but I spent some time messing around wit...
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Chapman
By: fishinator
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Chapman today from 3-6pm fished by the boat launch and went all the way to the end. We marked quite a few fish, but didn't have a bite. I was using an inflated worm on a slip sinker while my...
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Chapman
By: gdrees
Posted: 8/16/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son-in-law and I went out about 1 pm and stayed until just before dark. We fished a few locations along the north end of lake, but had no luck until we were at the northernmost end. There we had ...
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Chapman
By: eustace
Posted: 8/12/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Same as my last report only difference was a few more fish near 12'' and they were more around 21' down.
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Chapman
By: eustace
Posted: 8/12/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Yeah, Chapman is the place,we got to our spot on the north end of the lake around 9:00pm. This time we did move to a little to a somewhat shallower spot (I did not like lifting 110' of anchor rope). W...
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Chapman
By: eustace
Posted: 8/6/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My 2nd time on this lake and 1st time was last week and I only got one bite. This time a whole different story! we got on the water too early. First of all the fish didn't start biting untill well aft...
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Chapman
By: MaxExp82
Posted: 7/29/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Had high hopes for Chapman, as Roscoe said, fished all night with little to show . Used corn, mallows, eggs .. Fished through the night , no luck. I dont know If i would want to fish Chapman again. ...
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Chapman
By: troscoe
Posted: 7/29/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I have heard such great things, and I had expectations high. It wasn't that they were NOT met, but the fact that three of us were out there, finding schools of fish, dropping corn, eggs, marshm...
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Chapman
By: eustace
Posted: 7/28/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I finally tried Chapman w/ my buddy and his wife. I have heard so much about its kok fisherie I was ready and willing at a moments notice to hit it. Saddly to say no fish, zilch, notta, nothing. I had...
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Chapman
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/26/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
great lake not alot of activity.nice smallies
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Chapman
By: jjyoung86
Posted: 5/28/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Chapman as the sun was setting thinking we would get some hits but got nothing. Used a Jitter lure for about 30 minutes with nothing so I switched over to a Rapala rattler which went down ...
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Chapman
By: tex-boy-7353
Posted: 5/24/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the water right around noon. We headed west as soon as we left the resort boat launch. The hooks hit the water not even 200 yards from the boat launch below the first rock ledge we came to. On ...
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