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Chelan Fishing Reports

Posted: 6/15/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took out the same friend i took out last week, and worked the area around the state park. Started a little after 5am, and fished for 5 hours. Finished with 15 fish and lost 5 or 6. Many fish were i...
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Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
got out this morning for a few hours. started near the state park working the edges from 80-250 FOW, caught fish from 30-60' down the wire fairly consistent, lost 1 kok at the boat while trying to ju...
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Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the Southam family out for their annual excursion with us. He put them on the Mack's at Colyar Ledge. Fishing at 1.1 mph with Jeff Drifts within 5 feet of the bottom in depths of 180 to 24...
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Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took an old friend out fishing for kokanee. not sure what he was expecting, but he was blown away every time i handed him the rod, he was thinking we would maybe catch 1. Then the morning started out...
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Posted: 6/6/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to the Ted Gray gang for fishing with us today. They were great. We worked Colyar Ledge and the Monument for our fish. Jeff's drift rigs tight to the bottom at about 1.1 mph was ticket. A...
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Posted: 6/3/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The Bernard's of Kent came out and fished with Jeff. He took them up to Colyar Ledge early for some Mack fishing. After boating a nice pile of Mack's they came down lake and worked over some Kokanee...
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Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Jim and Anne Lamerson came up from Prescott, AZ and fished with me again. We worked over the deeper spots just downlake of the Bar. I fished Jeff's Drift Rigs all around. I baited 2 rods with Pikem...
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Posted: 5/29/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The Vu's and Wynne's came out to get their kids some Mackinaw. We worked the deeper spots in the Barrens to get our fish. We fished 3 feet of the bottom at 1.2mph in water that was 210 to 225 feet d...
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By: Mharri333
Posted: 5/26/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We fished for Kokanee on Lake Chelan Saturday, Sunday and again on Monday. The first day we headed straight to the Yacht Club at 0430 hoping to relive our last trip... No such luck. We picked up a...
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Posted: 5/25/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2015
Hot Spots: 3
After barely scraping out 4 fish last Wednesday near the state park, i got up early this morning for a shot at down-lake, where the fish are usually a little smaller, but more plentiful. I started fi...
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Posted: 5/24/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Finished up my 2015 Lake Chelan Kokanee season today. Going to be sad to leave it behind but we did it in style today! Got a super late start and still finished by 11am with 42 Kokanee in the cooler! ...
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Posted: 5/23/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
They Tobey clan came out for their annual foray for Lakers on Chelan. We trolled across the Bar and told stories. As we dropped into the Barrens we told more stories. I was sweating, but I thought ...
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Posted: 5/20/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake again today with some AWESOME guys! We put an absolute beat down on the Kokanee again. 41 in the cooler and lost over 30+!! All by 11am! What a great time! Liminators in Pink and Orange w...
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Posted: 5/18/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After seeing Jordan's disappointment in not finishing in the top 3 in the derby on Saturday I wanted to treat her to some fun fishing so set up a trip on Lake Chelan Tuesday that I have been trying to...
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Posted: 5/18/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Author, ex SF surgeon and cancer specialist, Larry Mulkerin came out and fished with me today. We each got to share stories about hard landings on drop zones and other semi-comedic military disasters...
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Posted: 5/17/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
What an absolutely amazing morning on the lake! Weather was calling for wind and rain but we risked it and headed out anyway. We were rewarded with 32 Kokanee (2 for the guide) by 8:30am! Fished the ...
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Posted: 5/16/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The local Lutheran Church sponsors a Welcome Home Vets program. They were nice enough to send some of those veterans out for a morning of fishing with me. Jeffrey and Patricia Graham of Malaga as we...
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Posted: 5/15/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Ron and Nancy came out and fished with me for the 3rd time today. So far they had limited on a Sockeye trip, and Fall Chinook trip, and now they have limited out with me for Kokanee and Trout. It was ...
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Posted: 5/14/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched in rain from state park. Fished across from Wapato point. ran my favorite homemade bead spinner tipped with Berkley Honey Worms on one side, and this rigged turned out to be the hot rig of ...
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Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First post from me, I'll try my best. Started out the day from Lake Chelan state park. 2 in the boat from Manson bay fishing at 35 feet deep with the 2 tone green wedding ring tipped with shoepeg corn...
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Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
started fishing around 6, first fish by 7 was a 10' shaker, followed by a bite and miss, a 15" fish, then a 16"er, another bite and a miss, then a 14 1/2" fish by 9am. after this i couldn't seem to f...
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Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a 10!! Got a call from Tom a while back saying he really wanted to get his kids into fish. I advised him to book a trip on Lake Chelan and vowed we would work hard and show his kids a great ...
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Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the weekend of the Northwest Fishing Reports (Washington Lakes) Camp out and get together May 1st to May 3rd. First of all many thanks to Mike and JoAnn Carey for putting togethe...
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Posted: 5/8/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The Graves and Graham party pounded Colyar Ledge for a nice pile of Lake Chelan Lakers. Jeff hit depths of 175 to 220 while Anton hit the 220 to 350 ledges for their fish. As usual we kept the Jeff ...
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Posted: 5/6/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Tom Marszelek and Chuck Lindquist were nice to enough to come out and fish with us again. We worked Jeff's drift rig tight to the bottom at Colyar ledge and Manson Bay to get our fish. At Colyar, de...
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