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Darrell and Dad's's Reports

15 - Lake Entiat
15 - Lake Entiat
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 1/6/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy went Steelhead fishing for the evening between Chelan Falls and Wells Dam for a couple of hours. The bite was great with 4 fish to the boat. One nice keeper. Fishing about 5-10 feet down over ...
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Roses
Roses
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 1/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Al went over to Roses to check the ice thickness and see how Pautzke's Fire Corn works on the Roses rainbows. The ice is thick enough. The Fire Corn worked great. Lot's of bites and a quick limit u...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy worked a lot harder to produce fish today with that big ridge of high pressure causing a stinky uplake blow with cold conditions. He got the Hollinrakes of Shoreline 4 in the morning including a...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Guy and Sherry Cumming of Yakima were kind enough to come stay in our Hideaway and fish Lake Chelan with Andy today. He feels like it was more of struggle today, but another monster came out as well ...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/28/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a great day mostly at the Pateros rocks for Andy with the Garland crew. They brought 14 fish to the boat. They got 4 keepers. The remainder were wild steelhead and one big (unfortunately unt...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/28/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy has been continuing to work up above the Yacht Club for big fish. Depths from 200 to 400 feet are most productive. The McCullough gang had a great time catching fish and bonding. They netted a...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/20/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing Double Splatter Back colored Kingfisher Lite spoons at 1.5 to 2 mph worked today for Andy. He fished them within 10 feet of the bottom up by the Yacht Club. It was a great morning of winter ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy got to take Tim Witter and David Wilson out after Jerrod had them Steelheading the day before. The brought the bite with them. Andy pounded mostly Kingfisher Lite spoons by Silver Horde up by t...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/15/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jerrod Riggan had a couple of guys out today on the upper end of Lake Pateros while we fished Rufus and the lower end of Lake Pateros. He had a great day, with his customers boating a dozen steelhe...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/15/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After fishing Rufus for the morning we dropped down to Pateros and fished the "Rocks" for Steelhead. The water was way low with almost now movement. We couldn't get bit in the usual areas, so we mov...
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17 - Rufus Woods
17 - Rufus Woods
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We left the Army Corp Launch about 7:30 and made the 45 minute run to the lower pens to get some triploids. Things kind of went in fits and starts. We finally bagged it with 9 fish in the boat at ab...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/8/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our Steelhead guide, Jerrod Riggan had a great day in the Brewster area. The bite held off until 9AM and then it lit up. He ended with 14 to the boat. The average fish size was a robust 9 pounds. ...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/3/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our guy, Jerrod Riggan of Big River Steelhead had a great day on Wednesday. He had John and Chris Hedges from Wenatchee out. They had 20 steelhead to the net with 6 more lost on the way. He had the...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 12/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy had a great morning mostly up at the Yacht Club. We've got some nice kokanee eating Lakers up there. Pulling purple glow Rushin' Salmon Wobblers at 1.2 to 1.4 mph within 10 feet of the bottom i...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 9/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing a combination of lures is proving to be productive for morning laker fishing on Chelan as summer winds down and early unsettled fall weather sets in. We are still opening on the Bar, but I ca...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/28/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Little F7 Flatfish in either Luminous Chartreuse or Purple Glow were best that morning. Ed and Evie Martin from Grants Pass, OR came up to sample our Chelan Mack fishing. Even with having a number o...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy pounded the Bar early, then Minneapolis and finished in the trench to end with 8. It was another spectacular morning. Also, they had a weird one happen. They hooked a fish on the Bar and had th...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This was a run and gun kind of morning. We popped 3 fish early on the Bar. Then we made the short move to the Sunnybank contour and picked up a couple of more. Then we picked up to work the center ...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Super baits in Hot Lava, herring and shrimp baited red hooks scored for Andy today. Jim Anderson got the 24# hog. Another jack king and some sockeye rounded out their bag. Thanks to Wayne Worzella ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a tougher bite on the Bar with just one fish to show for our efforts with a couple more pulling off. Then I broke it down to Manson Bay to get Patrick Tenaglia's little girl Alex some fish. T...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Kevin and Lisa Wilson were nice enough to bring their kids Kelli and Travis out with Andy for a perfect morning of fishing on Lake Chelan. Andy got them to bite on the Bar early then around Minneapol...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Black and White Kingfisher Lite spoons got bit early on the Bar. Then to try and keep the bite going I moved to the face of Manson Bay to get numbers. A dry pass scared me but they turned on perfect...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Steiners were nice enough to join us for another perfect day on Chelan. The Bar bite was hot early then died about 7. It was tough to get 'em to go after that until 9. He got 3 more in the boat...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Lefelman / Kaplan group were nice enough to come out with us and fish. It was another perfect morning on Chelan. We got a nice bite going on the Bar, then it just died until about 9. Then I gue...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Richland gang braved the afternoon winds on Lake Chelan with Andy. It was a blow out in the trench so he searched for water calm enough to fish. He found it off the face of Manson Bay. The fish...
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