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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
Andy went out with the Bebell boys. Getting them up was tough, but they were fishing machines. Once again the Bar was hot early, then the Minneapolis area rounded out the morning. Another beautiful...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy pounded the bar early with T4 purple glow flatfish. The bite was crazy good early then petered out around 7:00. Then hammering away at the deepwater in the trench rounded out the bag for the da...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I had the Wright / Devine group out. The Bar was hot early. Fishing was tough between 7 and 8:30. Then those deepwater fish in the trench started to bite. I stayed with Kingfisher Lite spoons on t...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/16/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
T4 purple glow flatfish continued to be productive for Andy both on the Bar and off the tip of Wapato Point. The Erickson's got to spend some time cranking on fish instead of playing on electronic ga...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again the little F7 flatfish in purple glow was very productive off the outriggers. 4 quality fish in 3 passes over the Bar and then finished with 7 more little fish along the face of Manson Bay...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
While the early morning runs on the Bar only yielded some light bites and no fish, those T4 purple glow flatfish put some fish in the boat for the Babineaux crew from New Mexico. They named the fish....
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was a bit tougher on the Bar with 2 fish in 2 passes. Only picked up one working the area in front of Minneapolis then made 3 quick passes in front of Manson Bay for 6 fish. Ended with 9. ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy had a great morning with the Pelant crew. He got fish early on the Bar and later in the AM off of Minneapolis Beach. Those flatfish in luminous chartreuse were productive. Anton Jones - Darr...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/6/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy produced some sockeye for the guys and they decided to try for some chinook. They would not cooperate. Again, shrimp baited hooks behind a big chrome dodger worked. Dress up that front hook wi...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the Jones Boys had a great time catching some fish, enjoying the morning ambience of a Lake Chelan morning and giving each other a hard time. It was a chamber of commerce morning. We started o...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/6/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Dave Mitchell brought his buddy, Dave Kronbach of Seattle out to sample our Upper Columbia sockeye fishing. For those of you that are wondering, it's still hot. There also a lot of Chinook in the ar...
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Omak
Omak
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/6/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We pounded Omak Lake for Lahontan Cutthroat. It was tougher fishing than I have seen, but by the end of the day we brought 9 fish to the boat and lost an equal number. Those Rushin' Salmon Wobblers ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well after an early morning blow out / lightning storm Chris Noeske brought his kids and nephew out with me for an evening trip on Lake Chelan. I could not get those trench fish to bite. We pounded ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Mack Bar produced fish early for Andy and his crew for this evening trip. The Jones' had a great time and took a nice pile of Mackinaw home for dinner. It was another beautiful evening on Lake Chelan...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again the little f7 purple glow flatfish on the outriggers produced the big fish. The Slothower and Harrell family reunion gang fished with us. We hit the big fish (8lb 12 oz) on Mack Bar early...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Ansary Crew came all the way from Afghanistan to fish with us. Jeff took them out on the North River and ran to the Yacht Club. He fished T4 purple glow flatfish and did nicely. They had some f...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The little F7 purple glow flatfish on the outrigger rods scored biggest for this morning trip. Two passes on the Bar yielded 3 decent fish so we faded into the flat. It was pretty good. We added 5 ...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well once again the tandem team of Andy and Jeff socked it to the sockeye off the mouth of the Okanogan River. The Burk crew from Okanogan picked up 13 sockeye, but had numerous fish bite but fail to...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a great evening out with Dale and Hunter Payne of Gig Harbor. We started out trying to reproduce my late morning bite in the flat, but only garnered one fish in about two hours of trolling. W...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
That little purple glow F7 flatfish at the nursery and again on the Bar scored for the Follette family all the way from Singapore to visit our valley. Check out our sunset with fish pictures. Anto...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a great morning to take Tommy (8) and his father Stuart Hoisington of Tacoma. We started a bit later than usual so we made two passes over Mack Bar. That netted us a nice quality fish and a cou...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/28/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy once again had a banner day at the mouth of the Okanogan pounding Sockeye. More of these fish are in the 4 to 6 pound range. You might try adding a Mack's Lures smile blade and a set of stack b...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/28/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those little F7 purple glow flatfish continued to out produce everyting else. It was nice steady bite on the Bar albeit no giant fish. Then we continued to plunk them working through the indetermina...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those T4 Purple Glow flatfish off the outriggers allowed Andy to produce some great fishing for the Greve kids from Sammammish. Boy, did they have a ball! Woo hoo! Work the Bar, the Yacht Club and ...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Tangborn crew wanted to focus on Chinook so Andy and Jeff ran a plug cut herring off the downrigger for Chinook. Also hanging out on the Columbia side of the channel helped. Finally broke throug...
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