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Chelan Fishing Reports

Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Mother nature has been the bugger this week with the high winds here on Lake Chelan but I have managed to get out and continue fishing for the Laketrout Today Mom nature was kind to me..Flat waters w...
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Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a few hours free, so hooked up and put in at the public launch at the lower end of the lake. Motored up to the lakeside area, searched there and across the lake at the chelan shores resort. Nada, ...
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Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy pounded away from Sunnybank into the lower basin to produce a nice bunch of lakers for the Herald gang. The little F7 purple glow flatfish was the best producer. Stay close to the bottom and sl...
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Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Flatfish worked in locations up around the Yacht Club, off of Sunnybank and in the Trench. Greg Lyons brought some of the Stemelt gang out to fish with us. It blew early, but the wind laid down and ...
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Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding the lower end of Lake Chelan with the U20 luminous chartreuse flatfish was once again productive. Keep speeds between 1.4 and 1.6 mph and stay tight to the bottom. What a wonderfully consis...
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Posted: 4/18/2010
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was different from yesterday..My Father had a saying that he used alot when we were out fishing..We would catch fish in one area one day and then go there the next and not get a bite he would sa...
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By: Dustin07
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
we headed over Friday morning and fished all day Friday and Saturday. In all fairness to the lake, two things went wrong for us. a. fish finder died when we arrived. (doh) b. did not take down ri...
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Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again Lake Chelan has got me Whipped. Fished for about 5 hours and no fish to show. Marked several fish at various depths, and trolled to 250 ft, but no takers. Fished up to Rocky point and Back ...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Scouted around from Manson down lake, looking for smallmouth on the move. Caught a few here and there, nothing to win a prize with. But it was good to mark a few spots on the GPS for higher water an...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 2
John Arnott and his son Sam (9) were nice enough to come out with me for a few hours. Due to travel plans we did a mid day trip. The best of it was the potholes below the Bar and above the Trench. ...
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Posted: 4/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a beautiful morning of fishing today here on Lake Chelan.. Started today off dropping into the Trench in the lower Basin and before I could get all rods out we hooked up on a dandy laketrout..10...
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Posted: 4/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took Jim Chadwick of Issaquah and his buddy out. We snicked a fish off the Bar and kept moving. The indeterminate flat between the Bar and the Trench was the best of it for me today. Most fish came...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/11/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Roamed the lower basin looking for smallmouths. Water temp is 43, top to bottom out to 25 feet. Still too cold for the bass to be very active.
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Posted: 4/10/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Boy what a great day and evening of fishing today. I had 2 different Families out today.. My Morning group was Brian and Debbie Beavers from Montlake Terrace..We started trolling the edge of the tren...
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Posted: 4/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the old U20 Luminous Chartreuse was the producer. Four of the six fish came off of one lure. Sometimes it's weird how all the fish lock in on particular lure. We put one decent fish in the bo...
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Posted: 4/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We pounded away through the lower basin to get five lakers. It was nice that the big fish was caught by the little boy at the end of the day. Water from 210 to 245 was most productive. Luminous Cha...
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Posted: 4/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our guide, Jeff Witkowski took a couple of guys out on Roses. A combination of trolling little F3 flatfish and still fishing doughbaits limited the 3 intrepid anglers. There was one tiger trout in a...
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Posted: 4/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The same kind of situation as yesterday with the fishing except the weather was greatly improved. Stan had himself a great time yarding in some Lake Chelan Mackinaw out of the lower basin. Once agai...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Monday was a day of crazy spring weather. With it came typical bite swings. The early morning was biteless (is that a word?) as the low pressure front pounded Andy and the Gailey's of Orem, Ut with ...
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Posted: 4/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today started off real slow in the lower basin but with the amount of Laketrout that I was seeing on the sonar I new that it was just a matter of time before the bite would pick up. Trolled the Ace...
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Posted: 4/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good morning and a very tough afternoon on Chelan. The Bar produced quality fish. The dips in the flat below the Bar produced the picture fish for the day. The venerable U20 Luminous Chart...
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Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Grandview H.S. braintrust came out to fish with Andy this morning on our North River. Andy pounded away with T-4 Flatfish in both Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow. He got a couple of big fish...
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Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2010
Hot Spots: 2
Pepe' Hernandez and Roger Sorenson used their last day off from running Blueberry Hills before Fall to come out and fish with me. I'm honored. We fished the Bar without success then pounded those ho...
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Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jody Bessert and Howard Pierce were nice enough to come fish with us. Our guide Andy worked the South Shore side of the Bar, the flat below the Bar and the lower basin to get them 11 lakers in the bo...
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Posted: 3/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, alls well the ends well. We went an hour and 48 minutes without a bite to start the morning. Spencer and his buddies just hung in there and stayed positive. It was the polar opposite of yeste...
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