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By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
doing this from dictaphone on a smartphone so not sure how it come out..fished the lake Cle Elum Mackinaw tourney on Saturday. blastoff was 8 o'clock.maybe 40 boats, Im not sure. My buddy and i fish...
By: sickbayer
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wow great day out on the lake launching requires a 4x4 and it is shallow so watch your props. Lots of kokes spotted but we fished for mac's. Limited within 2hours, 6 fish between 6 and 9 pounds.
By: G-Man
Posted: 6/3/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Slimy Slab and I made the trek to Lake Cle Elum this morning. We found the Lake is pretty much at full pool and launching from the beach went off without a hitch, lines were in the water by 8:30am. ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/21/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 1
This is a report for my fishing experience in the 3rd Annual Mackinaw tourney on lake Cle Elum recently. This was a very fun day for us. The check in the am was at 0700. They told me "Blast off" wa...
By: Bo
Posted: 6/5/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 3
The star rating system is hard to decide on. Went with 3 stars. Caught some fish, but had a REALLY good time. Love fishing in lake Cle Elum! U20 down on the bottom worked for us. Fish hard!
By: Ezlivn89
Posted: 6/16/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/14/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Didnt see anything or catch anything. We were trying everything in my tackle box and couldnt get a bite. Cool place though, extremely windy.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/11/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2012
Hot Spots: 3
We went to Cle Elum for the first time. What a beautiful lake. Started trolling at about 150'. Half hour later, BAM...then it came off. I was using a flatfish in frog pattern. Swam the rest of the day...
By: Bodofish
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day on the water. Not much action. I think the water is still a bit cold. 44 in the shallows and 38 in the middle. Caught the one fish all day but we weren't going for the those little ko...
By: Palmer
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My 7 year old son and I fished the south shore near the dam. We caught one near the clearcut at a depth of 150 feet. It was 7 or 8 lbs. He realed for about 5 minutes and handed the rod to me. The f...
By: ecarnes
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/31/2009
Hot Spots: 1
We launced at Wish poosh early, and got fishing early on the West side of the lake across from the launch. We fished for a few hours, trolling back and forth everywhere from 100 - 140 ft deep but no l...
By: Bodofish
Posted: 6/3/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Great day out on the lake! Beautiful sunshine, minimal wind, good eats, cold beer, just a nice day!
Oh yeah we did catch one fish. It was a ten pound Mac. We talked with two other groups that had c...
By: zelnorm
Posted: 8/1/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished several days during the week. Average 8-10 fish per day, 6-14 lbs. Jigging 75-125 feet. Thermocline 70'. Few boats fishing. Ramp almost out of the water.
By: Enumclawdi
Posted: 8/24/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Drove to Cle Elum to get on the the lake. The Wishpoosh launch was closed due to low water. A "local" told us to try the launch on Mill Creek Road, it was closed too. Does anyone know of a way to g...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I decided to give this lake a try a little earlier than normal,and we had a great time.It was really windy when we got there,but managed to wait it out and got a short window of opportunity...
By: Palmer
Posted: 5/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
No wind beautiful day on the lake. We started around 8 and didn't catch any fish until around 10 am. I've found that when you catch a fish circle around and head through the same spot. We caught th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished several morning at Cle Elum this week. Lots of fish 60-120 feet on ledges between big point and Morgan Creek. Averaged 8 fish a morning 6-13 lbs on ZZingers.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/4/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2018
Hot Spots: 2
I got to go fishing with my son James on our annual overnight trip. Decided to head over to Cle Elum and use some of shad I had caught on the Columbia. Last time I tried this I got a huge laker of aro...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Cle Elum has my attention as a close, “go-to” destination for a shot at big lakers. I’ve caught some nice fish out of this lake and wanted to share my experiences with a couple NWFR members. So Sunday...
By: MoonValley
Posted: 6/29/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2019
Hot Spots: 1
I hit Cle Elum today to try my hand at Mackinaw for the first time in 38 years... I didn't anticipate much success since I'm completely new to that fishery.
The day started beautifully. Very lig...
By: MoonValley
Posted: 7/12/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Took another shot at Mackinaw in Cle Elum Lake today. After the last trip, I replaced the wire on my downriggers with longer rolls of the new 200# braid and added larger downrigger balls. BIG mistak...
By: rmrauscher
Posted: 7/19/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2019
Hot Spots: 2
Second trip to Lake Cle Elum this year on Weds. Conditions were tough to say the least. Storm front blowing in, strong wind, rain, choppy water and barometer dropping like a rock. Got hit with some bo...
By: Kayakjeff
Posted: 5/12/2020
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Lake CLE ELUM around 6:30 am. I was the only one on the as far as I could tell. Water Conditions were perfect for me as I fish from a kayak. I headed out in front of the dam about a half mile ...
By: BennyLeeBratrud
Posted: 7/3/2021
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished majority on the south end both on the east and west side of the lake. All the way up just past the wish poosh boat launch. We fished back to back days 5 am - 9:30 and marked fish few but nothin...
By: cptsdauhtr
Posted: 5/8/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Great day of fishing on Lake Cle Elum. Hooked into a few mackinaw in shallow to medium depth water. Pretty incredible fishing right now.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/31/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2017
Hot Spots: 2
This is a report about the one that got away…
My friend Robbie and I got the green light to go do an overnight fishing adventure. I had a plan in place and was (pretty much) ready to execute it. As...
