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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again that little F7 Purple Glow Flatfish on the outriggers scored the biggest two fish of the morning. It looked like it might be one of those days as we had the first 3 fish pull off. But the...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/23/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Jeff and Andy beat the red paint off the hooks today. They took the Zimmerman's of Tumwater and the writer Rob Phillips out to sample the Brewster Sockeye Fishing. Once again, shrimp baited ho...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/23/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Bar produced it's standard 3 fish on the first 3 passes of the morning. Then we faded into the indeterminate flat fighting wind that varied from 10 to 25 mph. We plucked a fish here and a fish t...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff pounded away off the mouth of the Okanogan to try and break through on the Chinook, but no luck. So he ran some Sockeye gear and got the Bennion's some sockeye to take home. Anton Jones - Dar...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Shrimp baited red hooks behind dodgers allowed Andy to hook some fish for Cass Hania and his daughter. They started below Wells Dam and fished 2 hours without a bite. Oops, time to move. They picke...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our little F7 purple glow flatfish on the outrigger rod saved the day. It got 3 of the 5 fish that we put in the boat including the 2 biggest ones. We started on the Bar (no surprise there). We got...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It's really nice having your eldest grandson deckhand for you. He preps the boat and I get to fish. It frees me up for 5 to 15 minutes before customers show up. Today was pretty cool. I got 7 or...
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15 - Lake Entiat
15 - Lake Entiat
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/21/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and Andy took out the Templeton crew below Wells Dam for sockeye. They boated nine sockeye and a jack Chinook. They also released a 10lb+ steelhead. Once again shrimp baited hooks behind chrom...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/21/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff used Red Hooks baited with Pautzke cured shrimp behind a big chrome dodger to get Hal Signet his Sockeye limit. These fish are depth specific. You've got to experiment and find out which depth ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After getting back from a leisurely trip to Wapato to get some suspended Rainbows my 8 year old granddaughter said it was time for me to take her fishing. I decided the nursery fish need a bit of thi...
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Wapato
Wapato
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to do a change of pace and fished Wapato for 2 hours with neighbors Donn and Pepe' of Blueberry Hills fame. We fished the 55 to 60 feet deep water about 20 to 25 feet down with blue and white flo...
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15 - Lake Entiat
15 - Lake Entiat
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tandem red hooks baited with pieces of shrimp cured with Pautzke cure behind a 00 chrome dodger worked for Andy today below Wells Dam. He found that when the bite slowed adding a Mack's Lures stack b...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing tandem red hooks baited with Pautzke cured shrimp behind a 00 chrome dodger produced sockeye off the mouth of the Okanogan today for Jeff. It was difficult fishing, but all in all there was a...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff pounded away with shrimp baited hooks behind a big chrome dodger off the mouth of the Okanogan River to get those Sockeye. It appears the run is tailing off, but he hung with it and got the Gano...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After a nice start on the Bar and 0500, the bite slowed for Andy as the morning wind uncharacteristically picked up. He finally pulled up and ran to the Yacht Club and cleaned house for the Clinton N...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Plucked a fish off the Bar and one from the flat before the wind made things really difficult. That UV / Glow Kingfisher Lite by Silver Horde scored both fish. I picked up and spent the last hour at...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those little F7 Flatfish on the outrigger rods really produced today. We pulled 3 off the Bar in 4 passes for the first 2 hours. We also lost 2 to, to the learning curve. Stop and go is the way to ...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff pounded away to produce limits of Columbia River Sockeye for Ed Rauvola of Chelan and Chuck Hammond of Manson. Working the edge of channel off the mouth of the Okanogan River in depths of 20 to ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow Flatfish in T4 and U20 scored for Andy today. He pounded fish early on the Bar then finished off Sunnybank for a very nice morning. The Ford gang had a great time...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Little F7 Purple Glow Flatfish on the outrigger rod produced a couple of 10 pounders. The Shannon family of Chelan caught 5 other fish on a glorious Chelan summer morning. We also caught fish on T4 ...
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16 - Lake Pateros
16 - Lake Pateros
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The current was ripping so hard at Wells, the guys didn't think it was safe to fish it. So they put in at Brewster and ran up to the mouth of the Okanogan. Jeff, Al and Andy got 6 sockeye in about 2...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy worked hard for his fish today. He picked up fish on the Bar, in the Flat, up at the Yacht Club and in the trench. But it was tough sledding. The "day maker" was a 19 pounder taken just off of...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Mack Bar let me down today, but the indeterminate flat between the Bar and the trench was very productive. Depths of 180 to 225 produced best. A couple of fish came out of the trench. While s...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow Flatfish in T4 and F7 were the ticket today. We started a bit later than usual (at 6:30 instead of 5:30), but it didn't matter. We got 3 fish on the first pass on...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a wind blown morn'. Lost a couple on the Bar and picked up one nice fish. Retreated to the nursery to get blown in 3 separate directions in the space of 20 minutes. Picked up 5 little nurser...
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