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Posted: 6/2/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Look Mike and Rob two posts in one day. Lol. All kidding aside I try to post reports but seem to get side tracked. I will work on that in the future. Today we fished Lake Chelan. We started today ...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 7/1/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished three days last week and boated 206lbs of Mac. We started early trolling 150-175 FOW with Superfly flies, a wiggle bill tipped with herring. I also tried plugs and caught a few fish. I troll...
Posted: 2/1/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After wowing the crowds at the Western Washington Sportsman Show, Jeff took Pepe out on the 30th to make sure the Kokanee were still there, then took fishing legends Mike Hall and Bobby Loomis out to ...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 2/15/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Melissa and I just returned from 3 great days on Lake Chelan. Although we didn't "limit out" I rated the trip a 4/5 as we caught enough to keep us excited and the weather cooperated nicely. The haul...
By: Cbass765
Posted: 4/15/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Made a trip to chelan this weekend to target some smallmouths. Hit the water at about 6:30am, fished the rock wall along the highway and around wapato point throwing crankbaits, plastics and jigs... n...
By: OGFboat
Posted: 4/4/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take the extended road trip to Chelan yesterday, and it was worth it. Had to launch at Manson due to my primary launch being closed until May for resurfacing of the parking lot??? THAT suc...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 5/1/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
First time fishing Chelan. As a kayak angler this lake has always intimidated me which is probably why I've not prioritized it. Circumstances lined up with the NWFR BBQ and I decided to give it a shot...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 5/9/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well Lake Chelan has been interesting lately. The fish still have not schooled up like normal. I believe it’s because of a late bloom of zooplankton and the feed has not moved down into the basin ye...
Posted: 12/20/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Pepe' out for another of their Kokanee forays. He checked out areas from Mill Bay to 25 Mile Creek. Working just above schools that were marked mostly 50 to 150 feet deep over deeper botto...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 1/10/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/7/2018
Hot Spots: 3
For many of my off seasons (winter), I've been drooling over the Darrel and Dad's reports from lake chelan. Finally, this year I convinced my family to take a trip over there in the winter. My dad a...
Posted: 8/24/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Pepe' convinced Jeff to take Blueberry Kari and her Mom, Linda and another friend to our upper Lake for an all day tour for a wedding present to Kari. See the lake, fish some in the upper lake and se...
Posted: 8/24/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had the Wiun party out of the Edmonton area for an evening trip. I had been trying to find a consistent producing pattern with Manson Bay being OK, but not quite good enough. Took our good luck char...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 11/18/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I had not fished Lake Chelan since this past spring. My goal was to go for a multispecies day but primarily focus on bringing home a limit of Kokanee. I launched from the kayak and jigged up a few sma...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 6/6/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished out about 300 yards from blue roof condo.bite was on and off. Shoe peg corn was ticket at times, gulp white maggots the other. Squid baits, apex, spinner harness.tandem hooks with bait on 1st h...
Posted: 6/11/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff had the Baines party on 6/9 and the "legend in his own mind"... Bobby Loomis on 6/10. The lower end of the fishery is still producing terrific numbers of Kokanee with shallower bonus Cutt. Reme...
Posted: 6/12/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The Baird party the morning of the 11th and the Plouf party the morning of the 12th fished with Jeff. He is still pounding the lower basin for Kokanee working Mack's Double D dodgers with either wedd...
Posted: 6/15/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The Harris clan of Snoqualmie came out with Jeff for an epic day of Kokanee fishing. Running a cheater rod produced some Rainbow and Cutthroat trout too! Working Mack's Double D Dodgers in front of ...
By: Salmonids
Posted: 4/15/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2022
Hot Spots: 1
Another great trip out to chelan in the books. Got to play around from 12th - 15th. Fishing should only get better. Haven’t been there in a while and it’s the transition period when fish start to move...
By: Yakhusker
Posted: 5/21/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2021
Hot Spots: 0
My brother-in-law and I took a couple of his friends out to catch some kokes. He told me they weren’t the fishing type but wanted to try it and have fun. Wow did we have fun! Launched at Old Mill Pa...
By: Salmonids
Posted: 5/12/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2021
Hot Spots: 3
Made it out to Chelan May 9 - 12 with family. Haven’t been out there in a while. Fishing was amazing. Get out there if you can. It is a big lake with many potential areas to hold fish. Viewing past po...
Posted: 5/7/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Both Jeff & I had great mornings on Lake Chelan catching Lakers for our customers. We trolled Jeff Drifts, made from Mack's Lure components baited with a piece of Northern Pikeminnow at 1mph within 5...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Many thanks to Mike, Aaron, Randy and and all of the NWFR crew for another great Chelan camp out and get together. Many thanks to the sponsors for their support and goodie bags of tackle and other st...
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Roger and Roger Calvert were nice enough to come out and provide adult supervision for Jeff so he could do some Mack fishing. They worked Jeff Drift's along Colyar Ledge, in the Narrows and along Man...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is a fishing report for the long weekend of the Chelan Get-together. I fished Friday afternoon solo, Saturday morning (until 9:30am) with my friend Rob and his daughters, and Sunday until early a...
Posted: 5/11/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Cousin Robert Schlief of Boise was nice enough to come out and help me thin out the lower basin Mackinaw on Lake Chelan for a couple of hours. Working tight to the bottom at 1mph with Jeff drifts in ...