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Posted: 3/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, alls well the ends well. We went an hour and 48 minutes without a bite to start the morning. Spencer and his buddies just hung in there and stayed positive. It was the polar opposite of yeste...
Posted: 7/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again that little F7 Purple Glow Flatfish on the outriggers scored the biggest two fish of the morning. It looked like it might be one of those days as we had the first 3 fish pull off. But the...
Posted: 4/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took Jim Chadwick of Issaquah and his buddy out. We snicked a fish off the Bar and kept moving. The indeterminate flat between the Bar and the Trench was the best of it for me today. Most fish came...
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Little F7 Purple Glow Flatfish on the outrigger rod produced a couple of 10 pounders. The Shannon family of Chelan caught 5 other fish on a glorious Chelan summer morning. We also caught fish on T4 ...
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow Flatfish in T4 and U20 scored for Andy today. He pounded fish early on the Bar then finished off Sunnybank for a very nice morning. The Ford gang had a great time...
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those little F7 Flatfish on the outrigger rods really produced today. We pulled 3 off the Bar in 4 passes for the first 2 hours. We also lost 2 to, to the learning curve. Stop and go is the way to ...
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Plucked a fish off the Bar and one from the flat before the wind made things really difficult. That UV / Glow Kingfisher Lite by Silver Horde scored both fish. I picked up and spent the last hour at...
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding the lower end of Lake Chelan with the U20 luminous chartreuse flatfish was once again productive. Keep speeds between 1.4 and 1.6 mph and stay tight to the bottom. What a wonderfully consis...
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Flatfish worked in locations up around the Yacht Club, off of Sunnybank and in the Trench. Greg Lyons brought some of the Stemelt gang out to fish with us. It blew early, but the wind laid down and ...
Posted: 7/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a great morning to take Tommy (8) and his father Stuart Hoisington of Tacoma. We started a bit later than usual so we made two passes over Mack Bar. That netted us a nice quality fish and a cou...
Posted: 7/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
That little purple glow F7 flatfish at the nursery and again on the Bar scored for the Follette family all the way from Singapore to visit our valley. Check out our sunset with fish pictures.
Anto...
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a great evening out with Dale and Hunter Payne of Gig Harbor. We started out trying to reproduce my late morning bite in the flat, but only garnered one fish in about two hours of trolling. W...
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The little F7 purple glow flatfish on the outrigger rods scored biggest for this morning trip. Two passes on the Bar yielded 3 decent fish so we faded into the flat. It was pretty good. We added 5 ...
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the delay in getting these posted. It has been hectic at Darrell & Dad's HQ with the boss lady retiring and grandkids graduating.
The Austin's were nice enough to go fishing with me in...
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy got a Glow Ace Hi Fly to produce the big twelve and a half pound fish on the Bar late in the evening. Working off of Rocky Point earlier in the evening produced a few lakers, but the 2.5 pound t...
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well I sure appreciate brothers-in-law Harlan Mayer of East Wenatchee and Dave Deardorff of Yale, Iowa coming out with me. We had a magical first run on the Bar with 4 nice quality fish in the first ...
Posted: 6/9/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well that Double Glow Ace Hi with a couple of hooks baited with a strip of Pikeminnow produced another Chinook today. A very nice 12 pounder that was a screamer off the clip. Dan and Emily Moran of ...
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I had the Wright / Devine group out. The Bar was hot early. Fishing was tough between 7 and 8:30. Then those deepwater fish in the trench started to bite. I stayed with Kingfisher Lite spoons on t...
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy pounded the bar early with T4 purple glow flatfish. The bite was crazy good early then petered out around 7:00. Then hammering away at the deepwater in the trench rounded out the bag for the da...
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy went out with the Bebell boys. Getting them up was tough, but they were fishing machines. Once again the Bar was hot early, then the Minneapolis area rounded out the morning. Another beautiful...
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Richland gang braved the afternoon winds on Lake Chelan with Andy. It was a blow out in the trench so he searched for water calm enough to fish. He found it off the face of Manson Bay. The fish...
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Lefelman / Kaplan group were nice enough to come out with us and fish. It was another perfect morning on Chelan. We got a nice bite going on the Bar, then it just died until about 9. Then I gue...
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Steiners were nice enough to join us for another perfect day on Chelan. The Bar bite was hot early then died about 7. It was tough to get 'em to go after that until 9. He got 3 more in the boat...
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Black and White Kingfisher Lite spoons got bit early on the Bar. Then to try and keep the bite going I moved to the face of Manson Bay to get numbers. A dry pass scared me but they turned on perfect...
Posted: 4/28/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
All's well that ends well. It was a slow start in the trench trolling for Macks and Chinook. We found them in the indeterminate flat between Rocky Point, Minneapolis and the Bar and the bite was on....
