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Chelan Fishing Reports

Posted: 10/29/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The Laketrout Bite on Lake Chelan has remained very consistent for this last week..Still targeting Mack Bar early in the morning and then moving to the lower lake as the the bite slows..Target the 200...
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Posted: 10/22/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Trout Fishing here on Lake Chelan remains very good...Try the Monument for those big fish first thing in the morning..Move to Mack Bar at around 9:00am..Make a couple passes over the Shallow hump...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/15/2009
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing early on Mack Bar and finishing a four hour trip in the trench produced a nice bag of Lakers with a very pretty Chinook. We have great fall fishing on Chelan. Anton Jones of Darrell & Da...
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Posted: 10/15/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing in Lake Chelan remains real productive in the Lower Basin of Lake Chelan.. Try trolling the Ace Hi-Fly with strip of Northern Pike Minnow (squawfish) trailing behind..Had a great bite thi...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/13/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is another reason why I just table all those assumptions and predictors. With that big cold / low front pushing through you would think the fish would have lockjaw. Instead, it was hot! Fish w...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/10/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I've finally got a bit of time to do individual reports. First, Lake Chelan continues to be as consistent as fishing can get. Just find your locations and develop a bit of confidence. Early i...
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Posted: 10/7/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains productive for Laketrout in the Lower Basin of Lake Chelan Try fishing off mack bar for your chance at catching a Laketrout over 10lbs. early in the morning then move to Rocky Poi...
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Posted: 10/4/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains productive for Laketrout and Chinook over this last week even though it is getting a little tougher due to mother nature and the laketrout moving into full spawn mode now.. Stil...
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Posted: 9/28/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Camped and fished out of 25 mile creek from Friday through Sunday. Friday afternoon was beautiful, got my kayak out on the water around 2:30 and trolled for about 2 hours with the downrigger. Lot o...
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Posted: 9/27/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing in the lower Basin of Lake Chelan remains Productive for Laketrout. I have found that the Laketrout are now moving very quickly into the spawning mode..3 females caught on my last outing had ...
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Posted: 9/14/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing here on Lake Chelan remains very good for Laketrout and once in a while you get lucky and get one of our "Gems" of the Lake, a Summer Chinook. I have been Fishing mainly in the Lower Basin ...
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Posted: 9/5/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing here on Lake Chelan remains very good even now that Mother nature is playing her games with wind and rain..Doesn't seem to affect the Laketrout bite though.. Minneapolis Beach area has been...
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Posted: 8/31/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan has remained good Laketrout fishing over the last 2 weeks but I was beginning to wonder what had happened to the Chinook and then all of a sudden they start showing up again in my catch.. ...
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Posted: 8/16/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing remains very good in the Lower lake..Mack bar has Produced some nice fish in the evenings and off Rocky point has been very Productive in the mornings for me over this reporting period.. To...
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Posted: 8/10/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
August 10th, 2009…The fishing in Lake Chelan remains very Productive for Laketrout in the Lower Basin of the Lake ..The Chinook are still still hitting but this last week I only boated 3 kings and los...
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Posted: 8/4/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well another great 4 days on Lake Chelan.. Laketrout fishing still remains outstanding but the Chinook Bite has slowed somewhat for me over these last 4 days..I did manage to hook up but nothing went...
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Posted: 8/4/2009
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got out to Lake Chelan. Only got to fish for about 2 hours though. I put in around 1pm at Twenty Five Mile Creek State Park and headed straight across the lake. I was trolling from my kayak...
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Posted: 7/31/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
If you have a chance you should head to Lake Chelan and try for these Laketrout..The smoke from our recent fire didn't seem to affect the Laketrout Bite at all.. The fishing here has been the best I ...
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Posted: 7/31/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
If you are planning a trip here on Lake Chelan don't let the fire discourage you..They have it under control and the Laketrout don't seem to mind a little smoke in the valley..It has been a "Red Hot "...
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Posted: 7/25/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
July has been the best month that I have had in Years here on Lake Chelan for numbers of Laketrout and Chinook..Mornings have been the best bite but evenings have been productive also. Lower Basin of...
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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We bounced downrigger balls off bottom of the narrows for Mackinaw.It took awhile to locate the fish (130-250 ft.)but it was pretty steady action after that.We stopped at 4 fish ranging from 6-11 lbs ...
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Posted: 7/17/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I am starting this weeks report off a little different than reports of the past because, well this week has been an odd week. I have taken groups from all over the world this week and to top off the w...
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By: TomD
Posted: 7/13/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Here's the report from my our yearly trip to Chelan. We were there 7/3 to 7/10 and I fished for a couple of hours 4 of the mornings. There were a couple of really windy days during the trip. Koka...
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Posted: 7/12/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well all I can say is that the Laketrout Fishing is on fire here on Lake Chelan..I have been averaging in the morning trips way above my normal average and also I am still mixing in a Chinook here and...
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By: stevoblue
Posted: 7/5/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This was actually a 3 day trip to Chelan. Only caught a couple of Kokes and a couple of Squaw fish. Pretty slow.
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