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Posted: 1/20/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Dale Rees from Tacoma had been out with us before on Lake Chelan and wanted to try a multi-venue day. He decided that he'd like to fish for Steelhead for half a day and at Rufus Woods for Triploids f...
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Posted: 1/15/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding the trench worked great for Andy hosting the Fleek family. He worked a combination of Silver Horde Kingfisher Lite spoons in splatterback colors, Mack's big cha cha squidders in glows and th...
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Posted: 1/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The plan (mine...) was to run to the lower pens to dunk some bait and slaughter quick limits. The fish Gods rewarded my arrogance by giving me the toughest bite I've had this season. We had a tough ...
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Posted: 1/8/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Eric and Kate of Bellingham joined their friends Mike and Alison from Moses Lake to enjoy a morning of fishing with our guide Andy Byrd. He ran up to the Yacht Club. The fished those Kingfisher Lite...
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Posted: 1/8/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well our Steelhead guys had out Dan and Susie Flick with Susie's brother Mike Russell. After braving the ice covered roads and ramp they mostly fished in the Pateros area. The key was increased wate...
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Posted: 1/7/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After an adventurous trip to the ramp following an overnight freezing rain episode, Andy managed to launch the boat with a minimum of damage to the dock or the equipment. He took Brian Duce and his 1...
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Posted: 1/7/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Stennes' were out both the 5th and 6th. Wednesday was the better day with 16 fish hooked and 10 in the net. However, only 2 were hatchery fish that could be kept. The pictured fish was caught a...
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Posted: 1/6/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy went Steelhead fishing for the evening between Chelan Falls and Wells Dam for a couple of hours. The bite was great with 4 fish to the boat. One nice keeper. Fishing about 5-10 feet down over ...
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Posted: 1/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Al went over to Roses to check the ice thickness and see how Pautzke's Fire Corn works on the Roses rainbows. The ice is thick enough. The Fire Corn worked great. Lot's of bites and a quick limit u...
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Posted: 12/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy worked a lot harder to produce fish today with that big ridge of high pressure causing a stinky uplake blow with cold conditions. He got the Hollinrakes of Shoreline 4 in the morning including a...
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Posted: 12/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Guy and Sherry Cumming of Yakima were kind enough to come stay in our Hideaway and fish Lake Chelan with Andy today. He feels like it was more of struggle today, but another monster came out as well ...
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Posted: 12/28/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a great day mostly at the Pateros rocks for Andy with the Garland crew. They brought 14 fish to the boat. They got 4 keepers. The remainder were wild steelhead and one big (unfortunately unt...
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Posted: 12/28/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy has been continuing to work up above the Yacht Club for big fish. Depths from 200 to 400 feet are most productive. The McCullough gang had a great time catching fish and bonding. They netted a...
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Posted: 12/20/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing Double Splatter Back colored Kingfisher Lite spoons at 1.5 to 2 mph worked today for Andy. He fished them within 10 feet of the bottom up by the Yacht Club. It was a great morning of winter ...
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Posted: 12/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy got to take Tim Witter and David Wilson out after Jerrod had them Steelheading the day before. The brought the bite with them. Andy pounded mostly Kingfisher Lite spoons by Silver Horde up by t...
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Posted: 12/15/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jerrod Riggan had a couple of guys out today on the upper end of Lake Pateros while we fished Rufus and the lower end of Lake Pateros. He had a great day, with his customers boating a dozen steelhe...
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Posted: 12/15/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After fishing Rufus for the morning we dropped down to Pateros and fished the "Rocks" for Steelhead. The water was way low with almost now movement. We couldn't get bit in the usual areas, so we mov...
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Posted: 12/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We left the Army Corp Launch about 7:30 and made the 45 minute run to the lower pens to get some triploids. Things kind of went in fits and starts. We finally bagged it with 9 fish in the boat at ab...
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Posted: 12/8/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our Steelhead guide, Jerrod Riggan had a great day in the Brewster area. The bite held off until 9AM and then it lit up. He ended with 14 to the boat. The average fish size was a robust 9 pounds. ...
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Posted: 12/3/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our guy, Jerrod Riggan of Big River Steelhead had a great day on Wednesday. He had John and Chris Hedges from Wenatchee out. They had 20 steelhead to the net with 6 more lost on the way. He had the...
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Posted: 12/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy had a great morning mostly up at the Yacht Club. We've got some nice kokanee eating Lakers up there. Pulling purple glow Rushin' Salmon Wobblers at 1.2 to 1.4 mph within 10 feet of the bottom i...
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Posted: 9/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing a combination of lures is proving to be productive for morning laker fishing on Chelan as summer winds down and early unsettled fall weather sets in. We are still opening on the Bar, but I ca...
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Posted: 8/28/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Little F7 Flatfish in either Luminous Chartreuse or Purple Glow were best that morning. Ed and Evie Martin from Grants Pass, OR came up to sample our Chelan Mack fishing. Even with having a number o...
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Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy pounded the Bar early, then Minneapolis and finished in the trench to end with 8. It was another spectacular morning. Also, they had a weird one happen. They hooked a fish on the Bar and had th...
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Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This was a run and gun kind of morning. We popped 3 fish early on the Bar. Then we made the short move to the Sunnybank contour and picked up a couple of more. Then we picked up to work the center ...
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