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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ali and Dave Bellerson came out with me again on the 22nd. They were up visiting from Arizona, and this time they brought their son from Billings, Mt. It's nice to have people out there that are alr...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the Mack's Lures gang out for some Kokanee fishing. They pounded the lower end of the lower basin with Mack's Lures Wedding Rings and Mack's Lures Cha Cha squidders baited with Pautzke's Fi...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Again, going "old school" and fishing U20 flatfish all around gave us our shot of quality fish in the area between the Bar and Rocky Point. The deeper spots were loaded. The face of Manson Bay wasn'...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish "old school" with long time customer Dave Mitchell and his kids-in-laws. What a great morning. The fishing was fine. We caught fish in the water below the Bar and just out of Manson B...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/21/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a chance to entertain the Pautzke Folks. We fished for Macks and Kokanee, went to Blueberry Hills for Lunch and the Chelan Winery for ribs. They also helped me out with a kids fishing 101 class ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/17/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Dave and Doris Wilding were nice enough to come out with me and fish this morning. They were up from Bountiful, Utah. We pounded the face of Manson Bay for 7 lakers. Then we faded into deep water o...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/16/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had Leon Lilly and Cheryl Rodzen come out for a 4 hour boat with us after pounding the Bass all weekend. Had a difficult time triggering fish on and around the Bar. Moved to the face of Manson Bay a...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Swenson's wanted a bunch of Kokanee so I got to host another 3 generation fishing trip. We just pounded the area from Lakeside to Chelan Shores. The most productive pattern was about 20 feet dow...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff & Brian took the Estep's out. They had a banner day working the area around Mack Bar. Everything got bit some, but U20 flatfish in either Luminous Chartreuse or Purple Glow worked best. The bi...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/14/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Worden Lures U20 Luminous Chatreuse Flatfish worked best. We pulled a few fish from the Bar / Potholes, but had our best success along the face of Manson Bay. Dick Thaden was nice enough to bring hi...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/14/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The kokanee are in full bloom now. Jeff fished for a limit. Lakeside or over by Chelan Shores works pretty good. The fish are 10 to 25 feet down over bottoms from 25 to 45. Mack's Lures Kokanee Pr...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Mark and Kevin Stennes brought their lovely girls over for a lap around Roses and a barbecue. The catching wasn't that great, but the girls had a ball playing with worms and being the center of Sandy...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/11/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Frank Hunt and Bob Mieger of Camano Island were nice enough to come fish with us this morning. Jeff did a nice job out there. They caught a nice pile of lakers, a kokanee and got a grand tour of the...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/7/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Garin Fifer was nice enough to bring his friends Jack Austin and Garrett Oberfelder out fishing with me this morning. It was his 13th birthday party. Oh yeah, his dad, Robert Fifer came out to. The...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/4/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I got the gang out on Roses today to get some fish to smoke and can. If the Mariners keep playing well, it will make great game watching snacks. Mack's Lures Cha Cha squidders in a rainbow pattern w...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 5/3/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Gary Gerhardt came out with me to see if we could get those kokanee to bite. He limited and got a few lakers to boot. We mostly fished off the drop out of Chelan Shores. The best combo for us was a...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/29/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to fish with Andy and Jeff. We were running some experiments. The leading edge of the Bar has been good in the early mornings. That's where the 9 pounder pictured below came from. The flat bel...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/28/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Mack's Lures Cha Cha Squidders worked in conjunction with U20 purple glow Flatfish from Worden Lures to produce a nice pile of fish for the Yarbrough's from McNeil Canyon. Son Brad won the trip in a ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/27/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pounded the Bar early, then the flat. Fish are sitting in the dips out there. Although the majority of the flat is 180 to 190 feet deep, the fish are concentrated in the dips that are 203 to 213. M...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/26/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Sometimes you just gotta take your grandson's fishing. Chandler (12) and Jesse (11), set lines, reeled fish and worked the net for their limits of Roses Rainbows. The old planters are pretty chunky ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/26/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tish and Bill came out and fished the afternoon. They had to brave some of that spring PM wind, but they caught some fish. We focused on Mack's cha cha squidders with big blades and small squids tip...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Eric Ferreira brought his boys, Benjamin and Philip out to fish with us on Roses Lake. The recent plant of triploids ratcheted up the excitement with bigger fish to be had. Fishing with flies, there...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We had Bobby Loomis and Dustin Countryman out for a trip on Chelan. We wanted to work a few locations for Lakers and pound away for Kokanee. The Laker fishing was great using a variety of Mack's Lur...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/22/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Purple Glow U20 flatfish produced some nice quality fish for Sam Arnott for his 11th Birthday trip with his dad, John. Then to beat his previous years record, we moved to the monument, switched to F7...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Dipped through the flat between Mack Bar and the point at Minneapolis to get Brian Whitney some Sunday morning Macks. Pretty much used U20 purple glow flatfish. A Macks Cha Cha Squidder in glow bait...
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