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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff had Mark Bergstresser with his buddies Randy Smith and Bill Covey out on a Chelan fishing primer day. They pounded the trench. A variety of presentations got bit including Purple Glow Flatfish,...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had Gwinn out with his gang for a day of Mack fishing. It started out promising with a quality fish on the Bar. Then a fish on the flat. Then I couldn't get bit. Hammered away in the trench and at...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Black Cone head wooly buggers behind a small clear action disk by Wiggle fine worked best. The East end of the lake was the most productive. Donn Vey of Manson came out with me to harrass Jaime with...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/5/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy pounded the indeterminate flat for 4 hours and ended with 6 fish for the Grandview teachers on spring break. It was a pretty looking day, albeit kind of windy and cold. Everyone had a great tim...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Once again, U20 Purple Glow Flatfish off the downriggers were the ticket on Chelan. We looped that indeterminate flat downlake from the Bar for our fish. Truth be told 6 of our 8 fish and 11 of our ...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling Black sparkly Wooly Buggers from #2 to #8 behind an action disk by wiggle fin created well over a hundred bites and limits for our intrepid anglers. We did this in about 3.5 hours. We even ...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I decided that I better get out with the boss and pre-fish Roses for a big family group that I had scheduled on the 3rd. Sandy's retired now, so we made it out there at the "crack of 10:45 AM". We h...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Cary Henspeter of Snohomish brought his wife Nanette and Kids, Emily (12) and Ethan (10) out Lake Trout fishing with me. I was a one trick pony with a couple of secondary locations not being producti...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/22/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fire Corn baited Ace Hi Flies worked well in the trench for Andy with Randy Reed of Manson and his girls(Emma 11, Ava 5 and Abbie 8.). They all caught the biggest fish of their lives and had lot's of...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/22/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Purple Glow U20 Flatfish and Kingfisher Lite spoons were the ticket on the outrigger rods for Mark and Sue Robinson. Working the trench and the indeterminant flat were best. Keeping the lures within...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/19/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy pounded the Bar and the indeterminant flat downlake of it with Purple Glow U20 Flatfish to get his part of the Morrey family their fish. They had a nice 2 boat family reunion fishing trip to giv...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/19/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff had part of the Morrey group out. He fished the Bar with T4 Purple glow flatfish and got that "big un" we are always trying for. The patriarch of the clan got this 16.9 pound fish in shallow wa...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy took Ron Marsh and his boy out. The plunked a couple of "bigs" off the Bar on Chelan. Andy thought the kid would have more fun with fast action on Roses, so they trailered up, launched and foug...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/18/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started out trying to get those Bar fish to bite with no luck for 2 passes which took about an hour. Then I was planning to give the indeterminate flat between the Bar and Minneapolis Beach. We got ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/15/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well the South King Co. Puget Sound Angler group came out with us. We pounded the deep water above the Yacht Club for a few hours, moved to Manson Bay, then over to the Nursery and finished on the Ba...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/15/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Alex Yunin and his boy, Alex (10) came out fishing with us again. Andy & Jeff pounded the deepwater above the Yacht Club with T-4 Flatfish and Ace Hi Flies to get the Lakers to bite. The bench out t...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/13/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ted and Jason Couch joined us for a great day of deepwater trolling for Lakers on Chelan. This father and son duo met here in Chelan to get together. It is tougher for them to get together now becau...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/10/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We had a great time on a perfect late winter day on Chelan. Look how the younger Mr. Crawford was dressed for his "big fish" picture. Jon Crawford, his son David and Charles Leonard came out to fish...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/9/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Randy and Sandra Woodson were nice enough to go fishing with us on Saturday. It wasn't the easiest of days, but they got to take a nice bunch of lakers home. We pounded the trench early and got a so...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 3/1/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding the trench with those Chartreuse Splatterback Kingfisher Lite's by Silver Horde were on the menu today. Depths of 200 to 220 were most effective at speeds of 1.6 mph. Many thanks to Eddie, ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 2/26/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The weather was the story of this trip. We took the Sanctis gang out fishing for lakers in the teeth of horizontal snow and a 15 to 20 mph blow. It was hard to hit the spots with no visibility and a...
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Rufus Woods
Rufus Woods
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 2/26/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, with the weather front moving in, it was challenging to say the least. Mike Flotrie of Ferndale and fishing partner Traci Todd of Blaine were nice enough to come fish with us. With a stiff upl...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 2/22/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ron and Sue McGhee were nice enough to bring Nick McGhee (16) and Ken Jacobs out fishing with me. We started up at above the Yacht Club and got a nice fish (6.2 pounds) on T4 purple glow flatfish and...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 2/19/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, not every day has a great bite. The weather cleared up and had a high pressure gradient creating a pretty heavy uplake breeze early in the morning. It settled down later in the AM. With brill...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 2/18/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Brian Duce of Marysville brought his 11 year old son, Matt, out to fish with Andy this morning. They stayed at their place in Leavenworth and drove up in the early morning before the trip. Andy poun...
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