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Chelan Fishing Reports

Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/10/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We are in prime time here on Chelan. With that being said, we have a boat open Saturday morning. Jeff took the McCallister's out for 13 year old Jack's birthday present from his dad. By 6:15 he...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
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...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
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...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
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...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
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...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
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...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad'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...
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Chelan
By: alkalibee
Posted: 6/18/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Long time reader only my second post. Staying at the Worldmark in Chelan and Dad brought his boat. We have been enjoying the 3-4 lb Kokanee from Lake Roosevelt so even though we picked up 8 Kokanee ...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
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. ...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
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...
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Chelan
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Chelan for the holiday weekend and camped nearby at Alta Lake. Targeted Macks on the lower basin for the morning with little success. Hooked one decent cutthroat and no macks. Headed ...
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Chelan
By: DjButler
Posted: 5/30/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Well, this morning was much more successful than yesterday. Taking notes from my last outing I headed back out to the point and found my first marks in 90 fow. Fish were suspended between 25-50ft dow...
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Chelan
By: DjButler
Posted: 5/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Today is the start of my memorial weekend! My original plan was to fish CLE Elum lake but those plans changed quick when my sister and her boyfriend invited me to stay at their cabin off of Wapato Poi...
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Chelan
By: MoonsGuideService
Posted: 5/28/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2016
Hot Spots: 3
We hit Lake Chelan Yesterday. Fishing was amazing. We started down lake and worked our way up lake. Got the first rod in at 30 feet. Before I get get the second rod down. The first had a nice kokanee ...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
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...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
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...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
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...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
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...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
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 ...
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