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By: dharris
Posted: 5/7/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Great time this morning out on flat water with lots of action. I gave the day a five even though we didn’t get our 30 fish limit because it certainly wasn’t for lack of effort by the Kokes. We did man...
By: dharris
Posted: 5/8/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Another very good morning out on Lake Chelan. We cut the morning short so we could spend some time with the wives today (that way we didn't have to call it a fishing vacation) so we didn't get as many...
Posted: 5/5/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
What an awesome morning on Lake Chelan! Had a couple great guys out to fish for Kokanee. Had their 2 limits by 8am! The wind then came up horribly so we headed to the dock at trolling speed and I was ...
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/6/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/2/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Arrived in Chelan for the annual event on Friday but didn't have time to get on the water until Saturday morning. We launched at 6am from the Mill Bay facilities. After making a few calls to see how t...
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/6/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Cassandra and I hit the lake again at 730am. Tried the same method as yesterday and picked up 3 more Kokanee. They were very healthy and fat in the 16-18" range. We trolled at 1.2 to 1.4mph, at 130-15...
By: Aaron
Posted: 5/6/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/4/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Rob Holman and I arrived on the water at 630am and headed straight for the Monument area again. We we fished at 1.2 to 1.4mph in 325 to 350 feet of water directly out form the monumnet with lures down...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the weekend of the Northwest Fishing Reports (Washington Lakes) Camp out and get together May 1st to May 3rd.
First of all many thanks to Mike and JoAnn Carey for putting togethe...
Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a 10!! Got a call from Tom a while back saying he really wanted to get his kids into fish. I advised him to book a trip on Lake Chelan and vowed we would work hard and show his kids a great ...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
started fishing around 6, first fish by 7 was a 10' shaker, followed by a bite and miss, a 15" fish, then a 16"er, another bite and a miss, then a 14 1/2" fish by 9am. after this i couldn't seem to f...
By: TraftonTrav
Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First post from me, I'll try my best. Started out the day from Lake Chelan state park. 2 in the boat from Manson bay fishing at 35 feet deep with the 2 tone green wedding ring tipped with shoepeg corn...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 5/14/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched in rain from state park. Fished across from Wapato point. ran my favorite homemade bead spinner tipped with Berkley Honey Worms on one side, and this rigged turned out to be the hot rig of ...
Posted: 5/15/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Ron and Nancy came out and fished with me for the 3rd time today. So far they had limited on a Sockeye trip, and Fall Chinook trip, and now they have limited out with me for Kokanee and Trout. It was ...
Posted: 5/17/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
What an absolutely amazing morning on the lake! Weather was calling for wind and rain but we risked it and headed out anyway. We were rewarded with 32 Kokanee (2 for the guide) by 8:30am! Fished the ...
Posted: 5/20/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake again today with some AWESOME guys! We put an absolute beat down on the Kokanee again. 41 in the cooler and lost over 30+!! All by 11am! What a great time! Liminators in Pink and Orange w...
Posted: 5/24/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Finished up my 2015 Lake Chelan Kokanee season today. Going to be sad to leave it behind but we did it in style today! Got a super late start and still finished by 11am with 42 Kokanee in the cooler! ...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 5/25/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2015
Hot Spots: 3
After barely scraping out 4 fish last Wednesday near the state park, i got up early this morning for a shot at down-lake, where the fish are usually a little smaller, but more plentiful. I started fi...
By: Mharri333
Posted: 5/26/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We fished for Kokanee on Lake Chelan Saturday, Sunday and again on Monday.
The first day we headed straight to the Yacht Club at 0430 hoping to relive our last trip... No such luck. We picked up a...
By: afk
Posted: 6/28/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and I launched at the State Park at about 05:30. We went up to the Yacht Club and dropped in. This was his first time fishing for Kokanee. We had prepped 4 different scented baits last night. Sho...
Posted: 6/3/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The Bernard's of Kent came out and fished with Jeff. He took them up to Colyar Ledge early for some Mack fishing. After boating a nice pile of Mack's they came down lake and worked over some Kokanee...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took an old friend out fishing for kokanee. not sure what he was expecting, but he was blown away every time i handed him the rod, he was thinking we would maybe catch 1. Then the morning started out...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
got out this morning for a few hours. started near the state park working the edges from 80-250 FOW, caught fish from 30-60' down the wire fairly consistent, lost 1 kok at the boat while trying to ju...
By: ncwflounderer
Posted: 6/15/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took out the same friend i took out last week, and worked the area around the state park. Started a little after 5am, and fished for 5 hours. Finished with 15 fish and lost 5 or 6. Many fish were i...
By: mooseboy
Posted: 6/15/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Day one:
We head out at daylight and go straight to the Blue Roof Condos. We both are anxious to try our gear on the local fish. I put down a chrome Apex and Sepp's dodger and purple/yellow Uncle Lar...
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 6/22/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2015
Hot Spots: 3
My first guide trip was 100% successful. I took the Chris lynch Family from Montana out for a day of Kokanee Fishing at Lake Chelan. We found the big Kokane at the Yacht Club right in the middle of ...
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 6/23/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2015
Hot Spots: 2
It may be a strange time to start a guide trip at noon at Lake Chelan, but the kokanee are biting in the afternoon right next to the jet ski traffic. The 24 inch king was a bonus that we bagged early...