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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/25/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The Cobel's were good enough to fish with us for 3 different days. We hammered away at Colyar ledge, the Yacht Club, the face of Manson bay and the Bar. The middle day we worked on Kokanee. Jeff go...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/28/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
With family and all, it has been hard to keep up. Thanks to everybody for fishing with us. Colyar ledge just keeps on producing great numbers. Mack's Lures Cha Cha Squidders, Silver Horde's Kingfis...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/23/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The front pushing all that wind blew us off Colyar ledge so we had to play whack a pile for a while. Then things settled down to a steady downpour. Fellow Vet, Ken Bowen and buddy Bill McMichael cam...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/21/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff & I pounded away at Colyar ledge for nice piles of Lakers. Mack's Lures Cha Cha Squidders, Worden Lures T4 Flatfish and Silver Hordes Kingfisher Lite spoons all scored well. Depths from the 220...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Canadian Memorial Day brought the Hix's from Abbotsford, BC as well as John and Katy from West Vancouver, BC to fish with us. We pounded Colyar Ledge for nice numbers of Lakers. John even got a nice...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/16/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well thanks to the Lundgren's for coming out with me. The early morning bite was particularly hot, then a lull, then we finished getting 2 out of a quad hook up. Pounding Colyar ledge from 230 to 320...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/15/2013
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Darrell & Dad's CFO, Aka Sandy wanted to go to Roses for an hour or so for some rehab on a hurt back. We pitched pieces of worms on a hook and threw little Roostertails working the edge of the Northe...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/15/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to fish with the best CPA fisherman in Manson. Also, Pepe' the guy that makes the magic pies at Blueberry Hills. We trolled around in a few different areas in the lower basin and fooled around w...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the Karvasek's up to pound on Colyar's ledge for some Mack's. The wind and the waves made it difficult to stay on the ledge, but it still worked out great! Mack's Cha Cha Squidders, Silver...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I was lucky enough to fish with Dick Thaden with son-in-law Dave Trip and Dick's grandson, Josh Tripp. Josh just graduated and had this hiatus before starting his new job to fish with his dad and gra...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I worked Colyar ledge to try some stinger experiments. They worked pretty good. attach a #8 treble a couple of inches in back of the trail hook on a Mack's Cha Cha to get some of those short biters....
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/8/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Although we only converted one out of the first seven bites, the Chelan Fresh guys hit a nice pace to pile up the Mackinaw on Colyar's Ledge. We hit fish all the way from 230 feet out to and includin...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The Hainline family came out to fish with us this morning. The deepwater was hot mostly from 280 to 320 feet deep. Everything we threw at them got bit. Worden Lures Flatfish, Mack's Cha Cha Squidde...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the MacDonald men out to chase some of those ever more elusive Lake Chelan Kokanee. He capitalized on the early start with an early double. After the first light flurry, it really slowed d...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a chance to do some uplake work on the 3rd. Then Lynn Smith was willing to let us get the kids some kokanee on the morning of the 4th. We found fish just downlake of Painted Rocks on the 3rd. T...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We hammered away at Colyar ledge to get nice numbers of Lakers before the wind blew us away with 25+mph stuff with a couple of very impressive 30 mph wind shears at 90 degrees to the prevailing wind. ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We worked that same pattern to good effect although a wind kind of blew us out in the middle of the trip. Jeff's folks got a nice 12# before they had to go back to selling RV's. My folks got another...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/26/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a morning and evening trip. A moderate downlake blow made it difficult to hit the spots on Colyar Ledge. We still had pretty good fortune in the morning on Silver Horde's Kingfisher Lite spoons ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/25/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to Scott Wilson and his gang as well as Nancy Hickey and her buddy for fishing with us. We are pounding deep water for nice numbers of Lakers. Mack's Lures Cha Cha Squidder in glow baited wit...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/23/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We worked the same pattern as yesterday, except we did not use outside rods at all. Just 2 downrigger rods. The bite was too hot. Fishing from 265 to 315 feet produced all the action with best spee...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/22/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well,we had a fun day catching lakers on our Yacht Club pattern today. We spent some time to get a few Kokanee then hammered away at Lakers for the remainder of the day. The weather was lovely and t...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/22/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Once again, Jeff went after Mackinaw up above the Yacht Club. The venerable U20 Luminous Chartreuse Flatfish by Worden Lures was somewhat more productive than Silver Horde's Ace Hi Fly and Mack's Cha...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/21/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I was blessed to have the dean of Washington saltwater fishing with me on Saturday. Tom Nelson of Salmon University brought his son and grandson out to fish with me. He wanted to get a taste of what...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/20/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Ron Stube was nice enough to bring along Nick Amato and come out to fish with me. The kokanee proved to be finicky. We worked the face of Mill Bay managing to lose 2 fish in the first hour. I had j...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/19/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The Kokanee proved to be stubborn for me so we moved up to the Yacht Club and pounded away in 240 to 310 feet of water to catch some Mackinaw. The Kokanee that we caught were on orange mini cha c...
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