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Chelan Fishing Reports

Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Baited Ace Hi Flies produced for Andy this evening pounding away at Minneapolis Beach. Depths of 140 to 180 produced these nice quality fish. Speeds of 1.3 to 1.7 mph were best. You have to pound t...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was a nice early morning magical run on the Bar this morning. We hooked up a double and lost them both. At the downlake end we hooked a nice fish that turned into a big hook nosed 14.5 poun...
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Chelan
By: Lake Chelan Adventures
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a great day to be on the water..Trolled the Action Disc with fish fillet strips today on Mack Bar to just bang the dickens out of the Laketrout.. Found nice fish in the 120 to 160ft depths...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Carl Young was nice enough to bring Jakeob (9) and Riley (11) Webb along with Nalani Ho out fishing with me. We worked T4 Flatfish in the Purple Glow and Luminous Chartreuse on the Bar to get some ni...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well that Double Glow Ace Hi with a couple of hooks baited with a strip of Pikeminnow produced another Chinook today. A very nice 12 pounder that was a screamer off the clip. Dan and Emily Moran of ...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well I sure appreciate brothers-in-law Harlan Mayer of East Wenatchee and Dave Deardorff of Yale, Iowa coming out with me. We had a magical first run on the Bar with 4 nice quality fish in the first ...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy got a Glow Ace Hi Fly to produce the big twelve and a half pound fish on the Bar late in the evening. Working off of Rocky Point earlier in the evening produced a few lakers, but the 2.5 pound t...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the delay in getting these posted. It has been hectic at Darrell & Dad's HQ with the boss lady retiring and grandkids graduating. The Austin's were nice enough to go fishing with me in...
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Chelan
By: Lake Chelan Adventures
Posted: 6/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a repeat of my last outing on Lake Chelan by targeting the big arches on Mack Bar, except this time the fish cooperated well today..had 15 hits the first 2 hours with the Big fish tipping th...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Duells were up from Phoenix, Arizona for a wedding. They decided to try their hand at fishing for Lake Chelan's lakers. Since the young guys had a bachelor party to attend the night before they ...
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Chelan
By: Lake Chelan Adventures
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This morning was a very quick start the first hour with 10 hits and boating 4 nice Laketrout on Mack Bar. Then the bite slowed as the morning progressed. I trolled the Ace Hi-fly again with scented ba...
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Chelan
By: Lake Chelan Adventures
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a interesting Fishing trip with having the Dept. of Ecology on the boat collecting Laketrout Samples for testing the Laketrout for toxicity levels..It was a wet trip with showers but no wind...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
T4 Flatfish in purple glow and Luminous Chartreuse worked above the Narrows this morning. I trolled in the Narrows for 3/4 of an hour without getting bit, even though there were a lot of fish visible...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We were back it for an evening trip. The face of Manson Bay produced some nice quality fish, then we finished on the Bar trying for the big one... B2 squids baited with a northern pikeminnow fillet ...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Purple Glow and Luminous Chartreuse Flatfish worked best up at the Yacht Club for us. These nice quality fish were mostly in depths of 140 to 190 feet within 5 feet of the bottom at speeds of 1.3 to ...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/2/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We pounded the Bar with Plug Cut for some nice quality fish this evening. Also, those B2's worked pretty good. The tip of Wapato Point provided some of the smaller fish. They were short striking qu...
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Chelan
By: blufin loui
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I Went down to the lake after Dropping Cindy off at work this morning (man is life good) with the intention of catching some Kokanee. Trolled the Lakeside area , and across the lake from there with no...
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Chelan
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
U20 Purple Glow flatfish were the ticket this evening. Started at Sunnybank and pulled that 8 pounder off of a shallow 105' hump. We then finished with a couple of quality fish on the Bar in some st...
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Chelan
By: Lake Chelan Adventures
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started on Mack bar today..Trolled the Ace Hi-fly again and caught a nice 8lber but the bite there was alot tougher than the day before..So moved the boat to Minneapolis Beach and targeted depths from...
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Chelan
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We used mostly Pink B2 3 inch squid rigs to catch a bunch of Mackinaw and a very nice Chinook. We plucked a fish right at the end of one pass on the Bar and moved to Sunnybank. On Sunnybank we got 3...
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Chelan
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy used Glow, B2 squids baited with a piece of Pikeminnow to give Josh Colver the 11th birthday present to remember. His dad and he pounded away at a variety of lower basin locations to boat 8 lake...
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Chelan
By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my brother-in-law and his son out for some smallmouth fishing. Over this past year, they both have begun getting real interested in fishing. Both were excited to have a crack at bass fishing, w...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pulling those B2's along the bottom over at Sunnybank and the face of Manson Bay produced a nice pile of smallish fish. We couldn't get bit on the Bar this AM. We used a chunk of Northern Pikeminnow...
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Chelan
By: Lake Chelan Adventures
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today we started on Mack bar and ended on Mack bar..The Laketrout bite was fast and furious at the start but then slowed at around 10:00am. The Ace Hi-fly out fished evrything else again today.. We ha...
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Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy ran his guys along the same pattern with about the same results as I had. He ran B2 squids firts over the Bar (picked up a nice big fish) then over to Sunnybank. Bar depths are 119 to 135 and S...
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