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Chelan Fishing Reports

Posted: 3/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/25/2010
Hot Spots: 3
What a beautiful morning to fish. Mild temps and no wind. We started on the "Bar" before the sun was up. After two passes in about 90 minutes of wrork we had 4 fish including a 17.5 pound kicker. ...
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Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bobby Loomis of Mack's Lures was nice enough to bring the guys from Wholesale Sports out for a beautiful afternoon fishing on Lake Chelan with me. We used some oversize Mack's Lures wedding rings bai...
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Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It continues to be work to get those Mackinaw to bite. We are fishing the Bar early then hitting the holes in the indeterminate flat between the Bar and Rocky Point. The trench produced some fish la...
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Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains productive for Laketrout but it has been challlenging with the Pressure changes as we are rolling along into spring time. I have been working the lower basin hard by dragging the ...
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Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Kayla Hutton was nice enough to bring her Dad, Dan and come fishing with me on her Spring Break. We had a promising start on the Bar, hitting three fish in 2 passes in depths of 115 to 135 feet deep....
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 3/20/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
While some anglers are reporting there are kokanee around, and I would agree, they are certainly not aggressive and schooled up yet. At least not that we could find. We tried all our standard tactic...
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Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Brady and Lanny Bumgarner came out for a mornings fishing with us. It wasn't as good a bite as yesterday, but it was OK. The upper shoulder of the Bar produced early then the trench produced a few f...
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Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
You have heard the saying "Chicken one day Feathers the Next" After yesterday of catching 22 to go to catching 5 today was a shocker to me. I had numerous bites but they were lite striking everything...
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Posted: 3/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well all I have to say is Wow for today.. I haven't had a bite like this in quite a while now..This is going down in my history book as 1 of the best bites that I have had here on Lake Chelan. Sta...
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Posted: 3/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Victor Doperalski of the Lake Washington Puget Sound Anglers brought his son Davide with us for an 8 hour gig on Lake Chelan. Andy Byrd guided them. It was a slow start early, but picked up after th...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/13/2010
Hot Spots: 2
The Natale's of Virginia Beach were kind enough to come out with me for a half day (4 hr) trip. Since they were staying in Leavenworth for the night we started later than normal. We didn't get out u...
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Posted: 3/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/12/2010
Hot Spots: 2
I had the Garcia family from Moses Lake out fishing on Chelan today. It started off kind of slow on the Bar. We got 3 fish and lost 2. I tried the flat between the Bar and Minneapolis for a while i...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/8/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/7/2010
Hot Spots: 2
This report is tardy do my appearance at the Sportsman's Show in Spolane. Andy had a group out on a beautiful Sunday. He got fish to bite off the shoulders of Mack Bar from 130 to 180 feet deep. Mo...
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Posted: 3/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was outstanding for the Laketrout in the lower Basin of Lake Chelan. Trolled the Purple glow Flatfish by Yakima bait Company today to boat 9 Laketrout with 6 other bites. Found these fish off...
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Posted: 3/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well it was tough this morning but managed to catch..The bite was real light. they were acting like they just were not hungry. Trolled off the Yacht Club and the Cove to find this biggin..Moved to ...
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By: bluefox
Posted: 3/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
thanks to darrel and all the other guides who put these reports on here . it was almost as easy as they make it seem (guides) ,trolled 120 feat deep all day long, pulling u20 flatfish 25 feat back. br...
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Posted: 3/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains very productive for laketrout and a Chinook here and there in the lower basin.. Targeted depths this morning from 150 to 240ft to find the biters off Rocky point.. Troll the Ace ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/21/2010
Hot Spots: 3
This was a tale of 2 trips. First, I decided to go above the Yacht Club and try to mine a big laker out of the deepwater above the Yacht Club. This time it didn't work. We scratched out a few small...
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By: aby131
Posted: 2/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Chelan with Andy from Darrell and Dad's Guide Service, what a great day! Fished from 12:30 PM until about 4:30, landed total of 12 Lake Trout, biggest one being about 11 lb. Not sure what exact...
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Posted: 2/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well this week has still remained real good for the Laketrout here on Lake Chelan..I am still targeting Laketrout in the trench and on the edges..The Ace Hi-Fly has still been the bait of Choice but t...
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By: aby131
Posted: 2/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Chelan with Andy from Darrell and Dad's Guide Service, what a great day! Fished from 12:30 PM until about 4:30, landed total of 12 Lake Trout, biggest one being about 11 lb. Not sure what exact...
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By: Jordan
Posted: 2/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on Chelan for a little while from about noon to 4 after not having much luck on roses and ended up catching 8 bows around 12". my buddy also hooked a bow that was in the 20" range and came of...
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Posted: 2/11/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started this morning at Millbay launch at 7:30 am..Motored down the lake off Pat and Mikes and started fishing in 170 ft. of water where we caught our first Laketrout..Slowly worked our way into the t...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun and goofy day. We had one big 3 line dog knot and had another boat catch our outrigger lines, (how can I expect anyone to know how far back those buggers are to get the bottom in 320 feet ...
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Posted: 2/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My Hats of to you Joe, and to you Anton. You guys have the touch when it comes to the Lake Chelan Deep water fishing. I got on the Lake about 0830-900 and trolled until 400 PM. Trolled the trench off ...
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