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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...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with some good friends finally, after a long time not fishing together. We took two boats, with two of us in each boat. We started at about 6 a.m., and quit about 4 p.m. We went after smallm...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After kokanee fishing we switched over to lake trout fishing for a bit to try for a big one. We fished Mack Bar for about an hour before going in for lunch and playing in the water. Megan caught a n...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
On our last fishable day at Chelan, the girls wanted to catch more lakers, and Laura really wanted to get one. We started a little later and only focused on Macks. We tried the Bar, the Monument and...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/11/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my daughter, nephew, and father-in-law to Chelan to try for Smallmouth. Senkos, Snipers, and grubs did the trick. Caught 18 altogether, and left at noon. Fished the lower end exclusively, hitt...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took a nephew, who had never caught any bass of any significance, up to Chelan. Also took along some folks from the west side who only saltwater fish. We worked for a few hours to find the pattern o...
By: esew
Posted: 1/22/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I had a great day out on Chelan. Chelan is hot right now!
By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/16/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the local bass club tournament. Caught two bass good enough for 6th place. Poured rain most of the day. Winds were moderate but tolerable. Water temps were 50-52. Did not see any beds. ...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/31/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Chelan by myself while the family slept in to start the holiday weekend. I wanted to explore some new areas and see what they looked like, to try to have some good knowledge for the summer. ...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went after my usual 4th of July weekend, early morning topwater bite on Chelan. It wasn't to be....mechanical problems prevented me from getting any farther than Darnell's. I did catch 5 bass in an ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My brother Larry from North Dakota joined my family in our annual weekly vacation at Lake Chelan for a week of bottom fishing for Lake Trout. The whole week was a great success catching from 45-50 Lak...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 5 a.m. on topwater, wasn't early enough. Caugh several fish on the flats just behind Wapato Point, where water temps were 64+/-. Weather hi 70's lo 80's, light winds, mostly sunny, and st...
Posted: 2/18/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Brian Duce of Marysville brought his 11 year old son, Matt, out to fish with Andy this morning. They stayed at their place in Leavenworth and drove up in the early morning before the trip. Andy poun...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/22/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took our annual trip to Chelan last week. Stayed at Wapato Pt as usual. There was TONS of drift wood in the water this year.
Kokanee was a bit better this year than normal. Usually trolled for...
By: Mr. Magler
Posted: 8/14/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
DrewP and I fished Chelan for smallies a few days last week for the first time with only some 1 lbers to show for it. Even small smallies are fun to pull in though. We mainly used drop-shotted plast...
By: careylakes
Posted: 1/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Cold! It was a little difficult to find the fish but we found small groups between the state park and the blue roofs. Caught 6 lakers (3-10 lbs.) and 1 ling (3 lbs.). Fish seemed a little difficult...
By: danielt
Posted: 6/16/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the first FLW qualifier at lake Chelan today and its a very nice lake. Caught some nice fish but not enough. All of the fish were caught before 11am and nothing but smaller ones after that. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/11/2004
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/11/2004
Hot Spots: 0
We had a club bass tournament at Chelan this last weekend and what a great time. Saturday was a little windy...okay it was really windy, but that is something you have to deal with when fishing Chelan...
By: Jordan
Posted: 2/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on Chelan for a little while from about noon to 4 after not having much luck on roses and ended up catching 8 bows around 12". my buddy also hooked a bow that was in the 20" range and came of...
By: stevoblue
Posted: 7/5/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This was actually a 3 day trip to Chelan. Only caught a couple of Kokes and a couple of Squaw fish. Pretty slow.
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/11/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Roamed the lower basin looking for smallmouths. Water temp is 43, top to bottom out to 25 feet. Still too cold for the bass to be very active.