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By: Geoffrey Ring
Posted: 12/26/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Just for kicks I thought I'd give the public dock by Cambell's a shot, since it had been good to me in the summer. Looking down from the upper part I got a good view of a massive school of 'bows. Star...
Posted: 7/18/2011
Species: Squawfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our guide, Jeff "squaw daddy" Witkowski educated the deckhands on the bait procurement technique. Jaime and Ray got into it. Jaime got the granddaddy fish of the day there. We used laker entrails o...
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Squawfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After their trip Jeff had Jaime catch a bunch of Northern Pikeminnow to us as bait. Just baited a hook with Laker entrails. Then he got to fillet them so we have fresh bait for our Cha Cha's and Ace...
Posted: 2/12/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
While cleaning our catch today at the Dock,a Dad,Mom and their 3yr old Boy came down on the Dock to do a little fishing...After fishing for sometime without any catching going on, I gave them some bai...
By: mstafford_33
Posted: 4/24/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Fishing 2 ft. off the bottom with powerbait
By: gloccker
Posted: 6/14/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Late evening fishing from a dock. Power bait with Mike's Garlic Oil.
Just looking to throw in for 30 minutes, HOPEFULLY catch a trout, as I just arrived from the West Side.
Now the fun part...
By: danyole
Posted: 8/16/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hey a great family trip to Lake Chelan. Didnt hook into any big ones, but was able to find some smallies! I didnt capture all of them on camera. I did record a bunch of footage of the fish I did manag...
By: Jesusi
Posted: 4/18/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Great day off from work. Good fishing at roses lake in manson caught 4 and lost 3 overall was a good fishing. I fished right off the dock. There was more people fishing everyone seem to be catching ta...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/7/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Best Fishing Day on Chelan Ever - Part 2
Report on my trip on Sunday July 1st with comments on other days...
After limiting on kokanee, I thought I'd give lakers a quick try... didn't really ha...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 2/22/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I woke up this morning with fishin on my mind! I had a new (to me anyway) Scotty DownRigger to set up, and was itching to try it out. So I removed the wire that was on it, and spooled 650 feet of Pow...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took some of my family bass fishing to see if they could catch a few. All of us did so, catching at least a couple apiece. We started out pretty early, and the bite seemed like it wouldn't develop. ...
By: huntergreg
Posted: 2/11/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took two of my freinds out on the water (Ron and Anthony). Had a great day on the water. ended up with 20 lakers and 1 burbot for the day. fished from 135-220 feet of water. Was a nice day and the wat...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My first bass trip to Chelan this year, attempting to see what the situation is. I covered lots of ground... some old spots and some new spots. I found 9 bass, some on cranks and some drop-shotting....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Fished Lake Chelan this morning, hit a spot across wapato point to go for some Burbot(Fresh water Ling) we tried homemade glow jigs with herring strips as bait at about 200ft depths right off the bott...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished our club tournament. Two other clubs were on the day before so it was tough to find big fish. I caught 14 bass but nothing over 2.5 lbs. bedding fish would not bite if they saw you. Caught a...
By: huntergreg
Posted: 2/5/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This was a great day on the lake. Spent the whole day in the trench. Fish I cought were in 195-220 foot of water. I ended up with 19 fish for the day. Didnt catch any fish after around 3pm. It was a f...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 2/5/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What a beautiful day on Lake Chelan. I think that's the calmest water I have every been on there. We got to the launch a little after 7, and it was about 20 degrees with brisk east winds. Luckily, ...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 2/19/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I've been meaning to take a bass-fishing partner out fishing in the winter for some time now, and we were finally able to get our schedules to match this weekend. We didn't get on the water early lik...
By: huntergreg
Posted: 2/20/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We spent 2 days on the water. Got there on sat. at 11 am. Fishing was slow and we landed 5 lake trout and one land lock salmon In 3 hrs. On sunday we hit the water around 9 am and hit the lower end of...
By: huntergreg
Posted: 2/25/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was a nice day on the water. We ended up with 10 lake trout and 1 burbot. We didnt troll around on this trip. Did some jigging and drop shotting. Both were very efective. It was fun to cast out 2-3 oz...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/17/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Sunday on Lake Chelan with Tyler Walker and Big Bass Dez, spring fishing for smallies. Dez had told me to be prepared for some good fishing and he was right, at least for part of the day.
Started ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/3/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was out on Lake Chelan, again, yesterday. Took an old school buddy out, who hasn't been bass fishing in years. Started out about 8:30 a.m. Went to my old haunt Abbots Point. No takers until we got dow...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had to get out fishing, for several reasons.
1. Cabin fever
2. New sonar
3. Marginal ice conditions for ice fishing
4. Keep my drop-shotting skills sharp
So I went to Lake Chelan. Couldn...
Posted: 9/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and Ray took the Bill and Sue Hays up to Rufus. They started at the Lower Pens and fished Fire Bait to catch a couple of nice fish. Then they moved downlake and trolled spinners and flies to ca...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/27/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went solo to Chelan, looking to prove (or disprove) my dismal results from last week. I decided to change things up from my usual August tactics, just to eliminate possibilities as to why last week w...