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Posted: 3/9/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Randy and Sandra Woodson were nice enough to go fishing with us on Saturday. It wasn't the easiest of days, but they got to take a nice bunch of lakers home. We pounded the trench early and got a so...
Posted: 3/1/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding the trench with those Chartreuse Splatterback Kingfisher Lite's by Silver Horde were on the menu today. Depths of 200 to 220 were most effective at speeds of 1.6 mph. Many thanks to Eddie, ...
Posted: 2/26/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The weather was the story of this trip. We took the Sanctis gang out fishing for lakers in the teeth of horizontal snow and a 15 to 20 mph blow. It was hard to hit the spots with no visibility and a...
Posted: 2/26/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, with the weather front moving in, it was challenging to say the least. Mike Flotrie of Ferndale and fishing partner Traci Todd of Blaine were nice enough to come fish with us. With a stiff upl...
Posted: 2/22/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ron and Sue McGhee were nice enough to bring Nick McGhee (16) and Ken Jacobs out fishing with me. We started up at above the Yacht Club and got a nice fish (6.2 pounds) on T4 purple glow flatfish and...
Posted: 2/19/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, not every day has a great bite. The weather cleared up and had a high pressure gradient creating a pretty heavy uplake breeze early in the morning. It settled down later in the AM. With brill...
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...
Posted: 2/18/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Gordon Lueck of Lacey was nice enought to bring his grandson's Marcus (10) and Mikhail (8) Bussey out fishing with Jeff and Me today. With the cold front moving in, the morning had a bite to it. We ...
Posted: 2/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pete Cunningham was nice enough to fish with us today. With cold surface water temps and low flow, it was a day to motor up to the lower pens and get some powerbait down there. The bite was steady. ...
Posted: 2/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy and Jeff took lifelong friends and fishing partners Albert Stubbs and Paul Batton fishing up at Rufus. With very cold water temps and not much flow they decided to motor up to the lower pens and...
Posted: 2/13/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! This was a tough one. We fished flatfish, cha cha squidders, Kingfisher Lite spoons, Rushin' Salmon Wobblers and B2 squid rigs with a minimum of success. Started above the Yacht Club and got o...
Posted: 2/13/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Randy Cole and Lori Kratzer of Yakima were nice enough to fish with us today. They thought Andy was great. They were grateful the sleepy fish woke up at about 9:30, just the way Andy predicted. Ran...
Posted: 2/12/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ken Smiley of Edmonds and Don Starkweather of Seattle, the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of Lake Chelan were nice enough to come out with us and fish today. They had a beautiful weather day in spite...
Posted: 2/12/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was a great day on Chelan. Numbers were moderate for a four hour trip with 6, but size was just fine. Big fish was 9lb 4oz. Jeff just "snicked" that out on his side of the boat to outdo th...
Posted: 2/12/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After spending most of 2011 doing financials, going to shows and writing I took Sandy out to catch a dinner fish. We had to troll down to the bottom of the trench and make the turn to get one. But, ...
Posted: 2/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Dave Matulka of Cle Elum and fishing partner John Jensen of Easton were nice enough to go fishing with us up at Rufus. Conditions were difficult. Surface temps under 35 and low flow. The air temp w...
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: 2/6/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It was great having Steve Woods of Buckley out with his fishing buddies, Dan Woods, Thomas Roberts and Doug Zahradnek with us on Saturday. They had a great day fishing with steady action all day long...
Posted: 1/31/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy and Jeff went out to prospect some runs and seams in the area between Wells Dam and the Chelan River for Steelhead. They had pretty good success with 5 fish to the boat in about 3 hours of exper...
Posted: 1/31/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy took out the Biggar's of Waterville out for a day's fising on Chelan. He had a tough bite and had to switch around a lot to stay in contact with the fish. The best success was once again in the...
Posted: 1/31/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ken Vaughn was nice enough to come out with Andy for an afternoon's fishing on Lake Chelan. He just ran down into the lower basin to get some fish. Silver Horde's Kingfisher Lite spoons in Chartreus...
Posted: 1/24/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
George Selvy of Lynnwood and fishing partner Don McAfee were nice enough to let their buddy Jeff Witkowski and our guide Andy Byrd take them out for a morning fishing on Lake Chelan. They ran up abov...
Posted: 1/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Bob Robelia of Chelan Falls was nice enough to bring his son-in-law and 2 grandkids out with us on Rufus for some triploid rainbow fishing. The goal was to catch limits of triploids as quickly as pos...
Posted: 1/24/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy wanted to show Jeff some runs and seams below Wells Dam so they fished from 7AM to 1PM. They varied the jig depth from 6 to 15 feet under Thill Big Fish Slider bobbers. The 1/8th oz. Calypso co...
Posted: 1/20/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Dale Rees of Tacoma had been out with us on Chelan to fish for Mackinaw (Aka: Lake Trout) before and wanted to try a multi-venue trip. We decided to have him fish for Steelhead in the AM and move to...
