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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 1/3/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We ran a trip up to the lower net pens to celebrate the New Year. The trip up was kooky with heavy fog. At times visibility was well under 50 feet. As soon as we got there, the fish cooperated. Li...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 1/3/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Chris Walsh and fishing buddy Doug McKay came out and fished with me to try for a big fish. Although the Worden Lures / Yakima Bait Company T4 Purple Glow Flatfish caught the most fish, the big fish ...
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Chiwaukum
Chiwaukum
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Pete, Mike, Riley and Nathan Phillips up to the Narrows to fish for Lakers. They did best at the 340' bench on T4 Purple Glow Flatfish and U20 Luminous Chartreuse Flatfish. The kids had a ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/29/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It was a great winter day out on Chelan. A little warm front pushed the daytime temps well up into the 40's. We had a little epidemic of "pull-offs" at the beginning, but we ended strong with a nice...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/23/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Mike Garland and Kevin Collier came out to fish with us to prospect for big fish. They had a couple of bigs pull off but did get a real nice 16lb 2oz fish in the boat. Our favorite big fish lure, th...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/22/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the Taggart group out to catch some Mackinaw. Had a beautiful day out on the lake and caught a nice bunch of fish. The Mack's Lures Cha Cha Squidder did best. Depths of 205 to 225 with sp...
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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/20/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well we had a great trip up to Rufus today. We took the Pautzke crew up to the lower pens for some triploid catching. Jeff's jigging technique was very productive for some catch and release work. P...
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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Tim Meade and his buddies up to work over some triploids with his jiggin' technique. They caught some nice fish and had some wildlife viewing opportunities. Sight fishing like this can be ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/19/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Al S's buddy woke up ill but he was good to go. We prospected around, but the trench produced most of the fish including a beautiful Chinook. As always, we worked the bottom 5 to 10 feet of the wate...
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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Al and his buddies for a day up at Rufus to catch some triploids. They worked the lower net pens with bait and jigs. Jig fishing was more successful. The old casting standy, Worden Lures ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/4/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great time to take Brian out fishing. We chunked fish all along the south shore in the lower basin. Depths in the 160's was best. Got a nice big fish too! Silver Horde's Ace Hi Flies baite...
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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took Yakima writer, Rob Phillips, his son Kyle and my good buddy Al Brooks up to the lower pens to work on some technique with Jeff. Ended up catching fish on rainbow dough bait. Early, the current ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 11/27/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff Frey came out to fish with me on Small Business Saturday with his kids, Melanie (19) and son, Rhyce (13) along with Rhyce's friend Bryce Todd. It was a very pleasant late November day with temps...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 11/19/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and Brian took out Wes and Andrew Diack as well as Jody Subotin and Nick Cooluris all from B.C.. They had a "dream day" on Chelan catching lakers all over the lower basin. The spawn must be ove...
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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 11/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well Jeff and Brian took the Cato Brothers out on Rufus again. What a difference a day makes! The bite came on strong. Worden Lures Super Roostertails caught some fish, but working jigs was best. ...
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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 11/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff & Brian took the Kato crew out for some triploids. Caught some fish in the Timm's Ranch area on Worden Lures Super Roostertails then finished the four guy limit on bait by the lower pens. Big f...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 11/5/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Granddaughter, McKinley wanted to go fish for a couple of hours for her birthday. OK, twist my arm... We tried the potholes and the Bar for about 40 minutes with one fish. Then we ran over to the m...
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17 - Rufus Woods
17 - Rufus Woods
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 11/3/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We took a businessman's holiday and went up to Rufus. The surface water temperature was 59 early and warmed into the low 60's. We tried trolling without success. We then anchored around areas where...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 11/2/2011
Species: Burbot
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We had to go up to Lucerne for a non-fishing gig, but then we had to wait to bring our people back so why not fish. We had an hour or so. We ran T4 Purple Glow flatfish near the bottom in 200+ feet ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 10/28/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I had Ralph and Linda Sorenson come out and fish with me on their annual trip. We had a beautiful fall day to wander around the lower basin of Chelan and find fish. We had our biggest fish come on t...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 10/24/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Evan Holzknecht was nice enough to bring his friends Andrew Kerr and Will Weyers out fishing with Jeff and me. We went back up to the Yacht Club and pounded away with a combination of Flatfish, Ace H...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 10/24/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Jeff & I decided to take Sandy (the CFO of Darrell & Dad's) out to pre-fish for an afternoon trip that we had scheduled. We were hoping to find big fish by the State Park, but no such luck. So...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 10/22/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan was kind again. A beautiful fall day and cooperative fish. John and Marjorie Corso were great to fish with. Jeff ran them all over the lower basin giving a sampling of the different pat...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 10/5/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff & Brian fished above Brewster. They got bit a number of times, but one way or another ended up with one. These fish are pretty dark on the outside, but their meat is still good. Fish hotspot f...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 10/2/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pete and Linda Hernandez were nice enough to come out with us again. We had a great morning. Worden Lures F7 flatfish in Luminous Chartreuse worked best. Pull them tight to the bottom at 1.1 to 1.3...
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