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Posted: 7/3/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I have been So Busy these last few days doing Morning, Mid-Day and Evening trips so I have been slacking on the report section.
Today I fished off Minneapolis Beach to have a Great Morning Bite!!!...
Posted: 7/4/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
T4 Purple Glow flatfish on the Bar early was the ticket to success. Second fish being a 17 pounder kind of made the day. The 3 generations of Heckel's and Misti's dad, Dwayne Davison came out and fi...
Posted: 7/6/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Mark Sebastian of Federal Way and his buddy Brandon Huelman came out to fish with me. The Bar was a lot slower than it had been. After a few passes and three fish we moved over to Minneapolis and ch...
Posted: 7/6/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We fished purple glow flatfish all around. T4's on the downriggers and F7's off the outriggers. Andrew Lumpe came out by himself. I started a new deckhand, Ray Rhoads of Spangle. We pounded away a...
Posted: 7/6/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Cha Cha Squidder produced mid day on the Bar for Jeff. The bite is a bit tougher and there is more "wake action" from recreational boaters, but it is still pretty good fishing. The Bryan gang came o...
Posted: 7/7/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff had a great day out with the Cospin family on Lake Chelan. They started on the Bar with 7 fish in the first hour! Then they settled down to pounding them out. They fished about half the day on...
Posted: 7/9/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Z-men, father and son came out for dad's birthday fishing trip. What a gift it was. A beautiful morning, eager fish and a big fish thrown in the mix, plus the comedic relief of the Offshore boat...
Posted: 7/9/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Back at it after taking a well deserved 2 days off to go Camping with My Wife and Daughters....
This Morning I started in the Trench and ended on the Edges of the "Trench" to have a Great Morning of ...
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
July 10th, 2011
Today we started Fishing at the Foot of the Trench and boated 6 laketrout on the first pass..The Ace Hi-Fly was on Fire today. We ended the day with a Triple and our total was 15 L...
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The T4 purple glow flatfish and the Mack's Lures Cha Cha Squidder were the big producers again today. Fishing buddies Bill Courshon and Stix Hooper were nice enough to come out and fish the morning. ...
Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Northwest Outdoors Radio Show Host, John Kruse along with friends Rusty and Lisa Johnston came out and fished with Jeff and me for the afternoon. We went right back out and pounded the Bar again. Ag...
Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I thought this was going to be "my day in the barrel. We started out with a triple on. We got the smallest fish of the 3 and had the biggest pull off right at the net. The third came unbuttoned out...
Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today I started our up lake troll at the foot of the Trench in the Lower Basin of Lake Chelan to bang 5 Laketrout in the first 1/4 mile. The Ace Hi-Fly was the ticket again today.. We continued our tr...
Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Taylor Clan, Jon, Laura and Kate came over to fish with us. Being teenagers, they started at the crack of noon. Jeff worked the Bar and the Yacht Club. Cha Cha Squidders and Ace Hi Flies baited...
Posted: 7/12/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ok today all I can say is Wow!!!!
Today again I started in the Trench with a stiff Down Lake Wind and Whitecaps which was very difficult to control Boat and Gear but then the weather front passed and...
Posted: 7/12/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it sure was nice to get the Mariner Bullpen along with the AAA guys from Tacoma out to fish with us. We got a chance to fish both boats and rack up a terrific pile of Lakers on the Bar. Jeff g...
Posted: 7/13/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We had Brian Hale from Australia come out and fish the evening with us. The bite was very steady and we finished the evening off with a hard fighting 15lb 13 oz fish. We pulled T4 purple glow flatfi...
By: haverman83
Posted: 7/13/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
had another great time on chelan with the wife and sister and new brother in law i am still new at catching macks but this is my third trip out and i think i just about got it down we got a total of 1...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/31/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We couldn't sit around any more, so we had to get out. We decided to try Chelan for some kokanee to see if the bite was still on, since it was such a short distance for us. We had our limit of 20 by...
Posted: 6/1/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Clark family came out and fished with us in the lower basin for Lakers. We worked the same pattern, pounding the South Shore from Sunnybank to Pat & Mikes. Worden's U20 Purple Glow Flatfish were...
Posted: 6/1/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Three generations of Lindquists came out with us for a four hour trip. The catching wasn't quite as good as it has been, but they got some nice fish for the barbecue and had a great day of fishing wi...
Posted: 6/2/2011
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Carl Carver from the Auburn PSA group brought his wife and came out with us for a mornings fishing. Once again we worked the South Shore from Sunnybank down. Depths of 140 to 190 at 1.3 to 1.6 mph w...
Posted: 6/3/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains productive for nice Quality Laketrout in the Lower Basin of Lake Chelan.
The Ace Hi-Fly by Silverhorde has been working well and also a Bait Strip Rig with a Glow in the Dark Smil...
Posted: 6/4/2011
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
June 4th, 2011
Today We started Fishing on Mackinaw Bar in the lower Basin of Lake Chelan to catch a few eater size laketrout and gradually moved over to Minneapolis Beach to catch a few more Nicer...
Posted: 6/5/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
June 5th 2011
Today was almost a Perfect match to Yesterday's report other than we only boated 7 laketrout but at the end lost 2.
Again I hammered away at Minneapolis Beach with the Ace Hi-Fly by ...