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Chelan Fishing Reports

Chelan
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 3/18/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/17/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We started out fishing for Mackinaw in the early morning. We landed a 13.7lb Lake Trout. We decided to catch a few Kokanee for dinner. We headed up lake to just above the yacht club. We set lines and...
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Chelan
By: downriggeral
Posted: 3/9/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers our adventures for the spring kokanee derby at Lake Chelan. I purchased a new (to me) StarCraft Fish Master last fall and have proceeded to set it up the way I wanted for fishing. ...
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Chelan
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 12/26/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/25/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Yes it was a 5 rating day on the lake. We ended with 45 Kokanee in the boat and lost about as may. We fished above Lake Chelan State Park between the 200’ and 300’ line. I set two downriggers at 80’ ...
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Chelan
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 12/10/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/4/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We finally got back on the water again after spending a lot of time in the woods chasing animals. Lake Chelan has been slow this fall for the most part. The last week has changed a little with more fi...
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Chelan
By: rappuhd
Posted: 10/30/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well had a nice long report, but it went away so here is a condensed version. Fished both Sunday and Monday with poor results. All told one nice lake trout ,one chinook and a couple nice Cutts. Fished...
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Chelan
By: danyole
Posted: 8/16/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hey a great family trip to Lake Chelan. Didnt hook into any big ones, but was able to find some smallies! I didnt capture all of them on camera. I did record a bunch of footage of the fish I did manag...
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Chelan
By: downriggeral
Posted: 8/12/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Mike Carey and I have been trying to get together all summer for a fishing trip and it never seemed to quite work out. Mike was going to film a future TV episode with Lance and Christy of Washington ...
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Chelan
By: JoshH
Posted: 7/16/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/15/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Left the Hobie at home and headed east to Fish with Jeff Witkowski of Darrell and Dad's for my 5th time. This time I took my son with me. Just a quick word on fishing with Jeff. I keep going back simp...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
By: MoonsGuideService
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 ...
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Chelan
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/21/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
It was a long drive for the few fish we caught. Launched at the state park and fished out in front of Manson in the morning, only sticking two fish in the boat. Moved over to the yacht club area and ...
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Chelan
By: markbaldassare
Posted: 5/11/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few days at lake Chelan fished from around 5 am to 10 am first day caught 2 Kokanee with a couple of missed ones. Second day caught 1 Kokanee with no other bites for that day. 3rd day no fish ...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/5/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Brian (FishDawg), Katy (FishPrincess) and I met up at Chelan for our annual kokanee fishing camp out. We all arrived late Thursday night. I had a break down on the way over (just had the truck worke...
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Chelan
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/29/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2018
Hot Spots: 1
I got to fish with Jeff Witkowski of Darrell and Dad's Family Guide Service, filming for a future TV episode on laker fishing. Along for the action was Bobby Loomis of Macks Lure. The weather fro...
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Chelan
By: Jesusi
Posted: 4/18/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Great day off from work. Good fishing at roses lake in manson caught 4 and lost 3 overall was a good fishing. I fished right off the dock. There was more people fishing everyone seem to be catching ta...
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Chelan
By: haverman83
Posted: 4/15/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Buddy and I decided to take the 3 he drive to Chelan and catch some koks but mainly wanted to target macks we got to the state park at around 520 and got our gear ready and headed out to Wapato point ...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
By: afk
Posted: 4/7/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hit it early and did ok. Best fishing was when the rain was really coming down.(10:00ish) Went the first 2 hours without a bump. tried all sorts of gear. I even put gloves on to see if that would help...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
By: MoonsGuideService
Posted: 4/2/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The kokanee fishing on Lake Chelan doesn't disappoint. There are a ton of fish starting to move down lake. The average size this year is bigger then the biggest of last season. We have been catching...
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Chelan
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 4/1/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Lake Chelan three days this past week. We fished every day above Gold Cr. at some point during the day. First day we started above Gold Cr in 900 ft of water and caught a fair amount of fi...
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Chelan
By: MoonsGuideService
Posted: 3/26/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2018
Hot Spots: 1
It no secret the kokanee fishing on Lake Chelan has been good. I spent a few days on the lake recently. All the boat ramps are good to use. Starting next month the millbay launch will be closed. We la...
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Chelan
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 3/3/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I started my day running to Stehekin to do some prospecting. Let’s just say the fishing wasn’t real good. We picked up a couple Kokanee and had one take down on the Chinook rod that did not stick. The...
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Chelan
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 2/23/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished several days last week with some fast times and some slow times. The fish are scattered and a lot of the fish we have been catching are not showing up on the sonar. We are starting to see so...
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