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Posted: 7/14/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went prospecting in the lower basin with Jaime to id some locations. We thought we had that 1st in a career event when I saw a small fish bite on the outside rod and then a huge pull back. I thought...
Posted: 12/19/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Doug and Kirk Elsner came out for a morning trip with Jeff. They pounded the trench with mostly baited Ace Hi Flies and Kingfisher Lite spoons by Silver Horde. Trolling slow and tight to the bottom ...
Posted: 7/12/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff scored big fishing below Wapato Pt. with Mr. Peterson and his party. They got that 19lb and 11 pound on a double. It was a circus. Another 11 in the box to boot! T4 purple glow flatfish on th...
Posted: 4/14/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding the upper trench produced for the Lane family. It was another great weather day on Chelan. We worked depths of 200 to 240 feet for the fish. Silver Horde's Kingfisher Lite spoons were the ...
Posted: 7/25/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to the Brough's for coming out with us. We hit the Bar early for the "big" that Cheryl caught, then moved to the trench later in the morning. It was another spectacular morning in Paradise! ...
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I worked Colyar ledge to try some stinger experiments. They worked pretty good. attach a #8 treble a couple of inches in back of the trail hook on a Mack's Cha Cha to get some of those short biters....
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I was lucky enough to fish with Dick Thaden with son-in-law Dave Trip and Dick's grandson, Josh Tripp. Josh just graduated and had this hiatus before starting his new job to fish with his dad and gra...
Posted: 4/25/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing Crew William Douglas, John Cashmere, Matt Britt and Laura Melland came out and fished with us. What a great day on the water! The loon that followed us around by the Yacht Club really added ...
Posted: 4/27/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to the Covey gang for coming out with us. It was a windy start, bucking 15 to 20 mph downlake wind and a driving rain. We hung in there, and had the wind lay down for us about 2 hours into ou...
Posted: 4/28/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Worked the Yacht Club to get the big fish, then pounded some piles in the lower basin to finish things up. It was great of Siemans to bring the whole gang out to fish. What a beautiful morning. Mac...
Posted: 5/15/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to fish with the best CPA fisherman in Manson. Also, Pepe' the guy that makes the magic pies at Blueberry Hills. We trolled around in a few different areas in the lower basin and fooled around w...
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Mark and Lisa Whitmire brought 12 year olds, Adelaide and Peyton out to fish on Chelan on a breezy morning. We caught fish on humps, then on ledges in the lower basin. Mack's Lures, Cha Cha Squidde...
Posted: 12/15/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Tinnesand's went out fishing with Jeff on a blustery day. They caught fish off the shoulders of the Bar in depths of 150 to 200 feet deep trolling Mack's Cha Cha Squidders at 1.5 mph. The heater...
Posted: 1/1/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Franson gang shared their three generation Lake Chelan winter fishing trip with me. We worked the indeterminate flat in the lower basin as well as deep water above the Yacht Club to catch a nice ...
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Doug "Big Fish" Burrows and friend Jack Meehan of Lake Tapps came out and fished with Jeff again.
Once again the Bar worked to produce some nice quality Mack's. Depths of 120 to 180 worked best....
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I decided to go fish after church for a couple of hours before turning the North River over to Jeff for an evening trip. My visiting grandson was willing to get out of bed by noon to go w...
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Colin Leingang brought his brother Chris out for a birthday fishing trip with their wives. We worked deepwater in a variety of locations throughout the lower basin and consistently got bit until the ...
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Ed and Sharon Bleitz brought out grandson, Detric Hernandez (9) for a mornings fishing. The kid latched onto the 2 biggest fish of the trip, a 10 and an 8. Grandma and Papa caught the little fish. ...
Posted: 7/31/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I apologize for the delay in getting this report out. The birth of our first Great Grand Child knocked us out of our routine! We have had success pounding the Bar early in the morning. Then moving ...
Posted: 8/1/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers trips from the July 24th through the 31st. Again, the Bar has produced the bigger fish. The face of Manson Bay and the trench has produced better numbers and continues to produce ...
Posted: 10/24/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Evan Holzknecht was nice enough to bring his friends Andrew Kerr and Will Weyers out fishing with Jeff and me. We went back up to the Yacht Club and pounded away with a combination of Flatfish, Ace H...
Posted: 8/18/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The big weather front that blew through changed things around. The Barrens and the fringe of the Bar has worked best. It has been more of a struggle to get fish to bite up at Colyar Ledge, on the Ba...
Posted: 8/20/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The Christofilis clan of Seattle came out and fished with Jeff. The Barrens was the productive area as the fish are really moving around. Depths of 175 to 205 worked best. As always, stay tight to ...
Posted: 5/29/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The Vu's and Wynne's came out to get their kids some Mackinaw. We worked the deeper spots in the Barrens to get our fish. We fished 3 feet of the bottom at 1.2mph in water that was 210 to 225 feet d...
Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers trips from 5/19 to 5/21. Colyar Ledge and the Slide to the slide have produced for us in the early mornings. Later in the morning, the face of Manson Bay and the Doughnut Hole has...
