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Chelan Fishing Reports

By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well the start this morning was slower than it's been, but we produced a 10+ pound fish among 6 lakers. Any day you are at 1.5 fish per hour and a fish over 10, it is a great day! Both guys caught t...
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Posted: 2/7/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well had a couple of Fellows out that just wanted to target Chinook..Worked the trench for a half hour and Bam..This fish hit the Ace Hi-Fly off Rocky Point 111 ft deep.. I stayed on the edges of t...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/6/2010
Hot Spots: 3
And the beat goes on. This is prime time to catch big kokanee eating Mackinaw. To try and put it in perspective we get about one fish over ten pounds for every forty fish caught over the course of t...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My "pinch me" week continues. Prime time for big lakers as well as nice numbers continues here on Lake Chelan. We worked exactly the same pattern as the other days this week. Purple glow Rushin' Sa...
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Posted: 2/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Laketrout fishing in Lake Chelan remains very productive. I am cathing fish in the normal Locations but today I found that there is more Laketrout showing up on Mack Bar now which is strange to me to ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/3/2010
Hot Spots: 2
We worked the centerline of Lake Chelan from the 200' depth just uplake of the Yacht Club in an uplake direction to about the 380' contour. This takes just about an hour per pass. We averaged about ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/2/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/2/2010
Hot Spots: 2
After all that talking at the Puyallup Sportsman's Show it sure was nice to get back out on the lake. What a great day for fishing on Lake Chelan. We started out at 7:30 and had 3 lines down by 8. ...
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Posted: 1/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today I am calling it a Logging day..We did nothing but Yard um in. If there was a rating 6 STARS this would have been the day. Started in the Abyss above the Yacht Club targeting depths of 250 to ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We pounded the deep water above the Yacht Club. T4 Purple Glow Flatfish worked fine, but the hot ticket was the purple glow Rushin' Salmon Wobblers by Critter Gitter. The key depths were from 280' t...
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Posted: 1/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Biggins are Biting!!!!!! 1/23/10..What a beautiful day...I don't think that I could think of anything that I would rather be doing on such a nice day..Oh ya the fishing on Lake Chelan is down r...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/23/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We are starting to pound the upper end of the fishery. Start at the Yacht Club and work the series of benches out into deep water until the 400' foot contour or you run out of cable. Big fish was 7p...
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Posted: 1/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains very good for Laketrout in the Lower Basin...Yacht Club area is now picking up on some bigger Lakers that are staging to attack the migrating Kokanee as they move down into the low...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Quadfather and myself carried through with our quest to Chelan after RW and Omak Lake the prior two days. Andy, with Darrell and Dad's Family Guide Service did our trip justice. The photos show ju...
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Posted: 12/29/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Holy Smokes the fishing in Lake Chelan is outstanding right now for the Laketrout in the Lower Basin of Lake Chelan off Rocky Point and Minneapolis Beach. Troll the Ace hi-fly 1 to 4 ft off the bottom...
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Posted: 12/23/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Today I got to go out on Lake Chelan all by myself. I had a plan to catch a nice Christmas Chinook to barbecue and to enjoy the beautiful Scenery. Well the Chinook did not like me today and well the s...
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Posted: 12/18/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The Fishing and Catching remains very good for Laketrout here on Lake Chelan in the Lower Basin off Rocky Point and Minneapolis Beach in the depths below 180ft. The Picture of the 3 fellows is our sec...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/8/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wow it is down right COLD..When I started this morning at my house it was -2 degrees and when I ended today at 12:00pm it was 19 degrees... The cold did not have any affect on the Bite out on Chela...
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Posted: 12/5/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Boy is it Cooold Out There.. I had the pleasure of taking my mother out fishing on the Lake this last week for Laketrout.. The fishing for the Lakers remains very good. Off Rocky Point in the deep dit...
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Posted: 11/28/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Ok this report is a little different than my past reports for Lake Chelan..I have been asked to take a picture and show the exact location where I fish off Rocky Point. So here you go..I do target the...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/25/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The "bankers bite" in the lower end of the trench has been really productive. Working the Mineapolis Area and the Bar early hasn't worked very well. By 8:30 - 9:00 in the morning though it has been ...
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Posted: 11/22/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains very Productive for Laketrout..was out on a 4 hr boat and ran 3 rods using the Ace Hi-fly in green spatterback. Also did better today on straight Herring trolling both baits at 1.5...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/22/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Booked a trip with Darrel and Dads guide service to see if we could catch some lakers. Things started a little slow in the morning but picked up considerably later in the morning. Our guide for the ...
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Posted: 11/15/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well I finally got a day out on Chelan after this last week of focusing on Rufus Woods, and what a morning it was.. Started trolling the Ace Hi- Fly off the bottom at Rocky Point to find some Lake...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/5/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing as a Ritalin substitute. Try the North Central Washington November fishing Trifecta. Launch the boat at Chelan. Catch a Laker. Trailer the boat. Launch the boat at Omak. Catch a Lahontan...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/29/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Locations are transitioning on Lake Chelan as we move through the Fall Spawn. The fishing in the trench has really slowed down. I expect it to pick up as we move into December. Mack Bar is still Ok...
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