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15 - Lake Entiat
15 - Lake Entiat
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/11/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Woo Hoo! The sockeye are in. Guides Jeff and Andy whacked 'em and stacked 'em today below Wells Dam. Fishing Shrimp behind a dodger was the ticket as they pounded the huge concentration of Sockeye ...
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Grimes
Grimes
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again Jeff nailed 'em for his guy on Grimes. He caught and released 34 Lahontan Cutthroat. The big fish was about 25 inches and just over 5 pounds. What a great quality fishery. Chronomids an...
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15 - Lake Entiat
15 - Lake Entiat
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bare Red hooks behind a dodger got us some sockeye. Did not get bit by Chinook yet. The Sockeye are pretty nice fish and give a good accounting of themselves on light gear. Fish the Douglas County ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those Purple Glow T4 Flatfish were very effective early on the Bar. All six fish came early including a very nice 13 pounder, then it shut off while we tried Sunnybank and off the tip of Wapato Point...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing F7 Flatfish on the outriggers and T4 Flatfish on the downriggers produced nicely this morning. Four fish in the first 45 minutes then grunting them out one at a time. The Bar worked well for...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those T4 purple glow flatfish on the outriggers were really productive for Andy today on the Bar. He decided to just stick it out for the 4 hour trip by staying on the Bar. Boy, did it pay off!. Th...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy had the same struggles I did this morning. The Bar yielded 2 fish, the Yacht Club a fish. He decided to go hit the nursery to get the younger kids some additional action, and off the went. Tha...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Mack Bar early. We picked up a fish each on the first 2 passes and had one pull off. I then picked up and moved to the Yacht Club, but it was tougher. We did have one really good pass where we ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Yacht Club wasn't as productive today so I took the little kids to the nursery to get some fast action. It worked out great. They got to reel in a lot of fish and at the end of the day it was go...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we just worked an evening trip in reverse of the last couple of morning trips. We started up at the Yacht Club. The fish that bit were all in the 160's depth wise. Then we pulled up and moved...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was another great morning on Chelan. Numbers pretty good, but the excitement of catching double digit landlocked fish is what's made it special the last couple of days. We opened up early on the ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy took Kevin Abel with his and the Kohler kids for a morning of fishing. They pounded the Bar and Minneapolis with flatfish at 1.5mph in depths of 125 to 180 feet deep. The kids had a grand time ...
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Grimes
Grimes
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/29/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sandy and I went for a businessman's holiday to Grimes Lake for some Lahontan Cutthroat trout smackdown with our Grimes guide extraordinaire, Jeff Witkowski. We fished about 4 hours and caught 11 Cut...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was nice to get back on the water after cruising Alaska for Sandy's retirement celebration. I'll get some backdated reports to show everyone how Andy did while I was gone. It was nice for t...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy was really challenged by the wind today as a cold low pressure front moved through and really created a lockjaw situation. Hammering away with an assortment of flatfish and baited Ace Hi Flies n...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy had a nice early run on the Bar before moving over to Minneapolis and a finishing pass up the Trench to get a nice pile of fish for fishing buddies Gary Morrison and Dennis Johnson. He pounded a...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was another beautiful day in Paradise. We pounded the Bar early, then trolled over to Minneapolis then down and up the trench for a morning trip. Mike Strehlow was nice enough to bring his ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding away with Flatfish in the T4 and F7 sizes in Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow produced nicely. We only plunked one fish off my 2 passes on the Bar. We picked up 2 more fish on a long loo...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Baited Ace Hi Flies produced for Andy this evening pounding away at Minneapolis Beach. Depths of 140 to 180 produced these nice quality fish. Speeds of 1.3 to 1.7 mph were best. You have to pound t...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was a nice early morning magical run on the Bar this morning. We hooked up a double and lost them both. At the downlake end we hooked a nice fish that turned into a big hook nosed 14.5 poun...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Carl Young was nice enough to bring Jakeob (9) and Riley (11) Webb along with Nalani Ho out fishing with me. We worked T4 Flatfish in the Purple Glow and Luminous Chartreuse on the Bar to get some ni...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well that Double Glow Ace Hi with a couple of hooks baited with a strip of Pikeminnow produced another Chinook today. A very nice 12 pounder that was a screamer off the clip. Dan and Emily Moran of ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well I sure appreciate brothers-in-law Harlan Mayer of East Wenatchee and Dave Deardorff of Yale, Iowa coming out with me. We had a magical first run on the Bar with 4 nice quality fish in the first ...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy got a Glow Ace Hi Fly to produce the big twelve and a half pound fish on the Bar late in the evening. Working off of Rocky Point earlier in the evening produced a few lakers, but the 2.5 pound t...
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Chelan
Chelan
By: Darrell and Dad's
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the delay in getting these posted. It has been hectic at Darrell & Dad's HQ with the boss lady retiring and grandkids graduating. The Austin's were nice enough to go fishing with me in...
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