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Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was another great morning on Chelan. Numbers pretty good, but the excitement of catching double digit landlocked fish is what's made it special the last couple of days. We opened up early on the ...
Posted: 2/7/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to Pat Gibson and his buddy for fishing with us. They got a nice taste of running the gear near the bottom and hanging some lakers. The best producing lure for them was the Chartreuse Splatte...
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy had a nice early run on the Bar before moving over to Minneapolis and a finishing pass up the Trench to get a nice pile of fish for fishing buddies Gary Morrison and Dennis Johnson. He pounded a...
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy was really challenged by the wind today as a cold low pressure front moved through and really created a lockjaw situation. Hammering away with an assortment of flatfish and baited Ace Hi Flies n...
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we just worked an evening trip in reverse of the last couple of morning trips. We started up at the Yacht Club. The fish that bit were all in the 160's depth wise. Then we pulled up and moved...
Posted: 7/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Yacht Club wasn't as productive today so I took the little kids to the nursery to get some fast action. It worked out great. They got to reel in a lot of fish and at the end of the day it was go...
Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bobby Loomis of Mack's Lures was nice enough to bring the guys from Wholesale Sports out for a beautiful afternoon fishing on Lake Chelan with me. We used some oversize Mack's Lures wedding rings bai...
Posted: 3/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/25/2010
Hot Spots: 3
What a beautiful morning to fish. Mild temps and no wind. We started on the "Bar" before the sun was up. After two passes in about 90 minutes of wrork we had 4 fish including a 17.5 pound kicker. ...
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: 7/10/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those Purple Glow T4 Flatfish were very effective early on the Bar. All six fish came early including a very nice 13 pounder, then it shut off while we tried Sunnybank and off the tip of Wapato Point...
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: 4/15/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2009
Hot Spots: 2
We started out the morning with the weather cold, but the fishing hot. Then the weather warmed but the bite went cold. At the end of our morning trip we had four Mackinaw and a beautiful landlocked ...
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: 5/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2010
Hot Spots: 2
We had a great day and lovely weather on Chelan today. The water temp is 51-52 F at the surface. We saw scads of small kokanee surface activity, but did not get them to bite. We got a nice pile 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...
