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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/16/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Special thanks to Jerry Bradley for bringing out John Lopind and John Riley to fish with me. We pounded the 60 to 85 foot depths below Wapato Pt. for Kokanee. We once again fished Mack's Lures Orang...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/15/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It has been kooky over here. The Kokanee have been hot and cold. Fish for these guys with ultra-light tackle for a real treat. They are very acrobatic, achieving long line releases a good percentag...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/2/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was another beautiful day on Lake Chelan. We pounded away in the trench to get the Benson family their Lake Chelan Mackinaw. Karissa (9) and Taya (5) learned how to handle the rods really well. ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/29/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Jacob Hunter came out from Wisconsin to fish for Kokanee. We fished the break out of Mill Bay from 60 to 100 feet. The fish were deeply suspended from 50 to 80 feet. Almost every hook up turned int...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/26/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We started out making a pass along the face of Mill Bay to catch Kokanee. Then we ran the trench to get some lakers. The Kokanee bit Orange Mini Cha Cha Squidders baited with Pautzke's Fire Corn. T...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/25/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The Varrelman women came out at the crack of 10AM to fish for Kokanee with me. We found them in depths of 50 to 100 feet. The fish were either deeply suspended or hugging the bottom We caught the f...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/21/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A big thanks to Phil Miller for coming out and fishing with me. We had a great time. The weather was sunny, cloudy, windy, calm, rainy, snowy, balmy... well, I guess it was March. We fished the fir...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/16/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Paul Peterson and Jack Tipping came over to fish on the nicest day of the year so far. It was lovely. Sunny and temps in the 60's. We found fish in the trench from 210 to 240 feet deep. Silver Hor...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/11/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was a "Chamber of Commerce" morning on Lake Chelan for the Koens family. The bite in the lower basin progressed steadily. Our bites mostly happened fishing within 5 feet of the bottom in water th...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/2/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was a "Chamber of Commerce" morning on Chelan. Working the flat below Wapato Point produced nice numbers, but no big fish. A number of fish pulled off the hooks and we had a bunch of tentative bi...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 1/22/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to take a stab at getting a big fish to freeze for the Puyallup Show so I asked good buddy Al Brooks to come out with me. We got out at the crack of 11:00AM. We trolled a Mack's Cha Cha Squ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Cindy & Sean Clark brought out Chuck Taylor and Dave Kortendick to fish with me on Lake Chelan. To avoid the strong cross-lake breeze in the early morning we headed uplake by the Yacht Club. Althoug...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 1/1/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Franson gang shared their three generation Lake Chelan winter fishing trip with me. We worked the indeterminate flat in the lower basin as well as deep water above the Yacht Club to catch a nice ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/15/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Tinnesand's went out fishing with Jeff on a blustery day. They caught fish off the shoulders of the Bar in depths of 150 to 200 feet deep trolling Mack's Cha Cha Squidders at 1.5 mph. The heater...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Chris Branch fished with me above the Narrows on a beautiful Saturday morning. We worked a Cha Cha Squidder and an Ace Hi Fly close to the bottom in depths of 200 to 300 feet at speeds around 1.5 mph...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My son-in-law, Mike and my neighbor Donn were nice enough to forego other activities to assist me in getting seven of our grandchildren out fishing on "Black Friday" at our local pond, Roses Lake. Th...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/23/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
John Manard took his old friend and avid angler CJ Williams out with us. John was along as an observer and CJ did all the angling. We had a very special early morning bite on all our lures. Mack's ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/21/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we got thos "bigs" to bite in the morning after teasing the heck out them the previous evening! Lauren (10) got a 14lb 7oz and Steven (12) got a 12lb 10oz fish before the sun rose. We then pr...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/21/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great 2 boat evening with the Bowman clan of Zillah. We worked below and above Wapato Point with squid rigs and Flatfish to catch our fish. It was brutally hot to start, but the fishing stayed...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/19/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Plug cut herring with a 0 Dodger produced the Chinook. The Mack's Lures Double D dodger and pink mini Cha Cha baited with Pautzke Fire Cured shrimp caught the Sockeye. It should turn more and more t...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/2/2012
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Keith Carpenter took his dad, Les out for a Sockeye trip on his 94th Birthday. Jeff got them limits by a bit after 9:30. Mack's Pink mini-Cha Cha's on a short leader behind a Mack's Double D Dodger ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/2/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Worked the same ridge below Wapato Pt. for the Kerr kids. It died off a bit after 8, but they got a nice pile of quality fish. Both of them got to catch the biggest fish of their lives. Everything ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/31/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Greg and Dave Evans came out for some Morning Mack Fishing. We pounded the ridge just downlake of Wapato Pt. the whole time. Even though we had a number of fish pull off, they ended with a great pil...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/30/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff had Dana Base and his buddy out for a morning of Mackinawing on Chelan. Jeff hung in there between Mill Bay and Sunnybank producing some nice quality fish including a 17.2 pounder! Worden Lures...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/30/2012
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Mr. Knight and his gang won the auction for our trip at the CCA banquet and went out with Jeff for some Sockeye at the Brewster Pool. The World Famous Bobby Loomis deckhanded for Jeff to make it a re...
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