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Posted: 10/12/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff worked his magic around the Bar Fringe and up at Colyar Ledge from the 7th thru the 10th. Mr. Carter from CleElum had some particularly good days! He pounded the bottom in depths of 120 to 220 ...
Posted: 10/27/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Jeremy Coleman and Steve Bourdage out for a day of Mack fishing. He moved around a lot through the lower basin and worked hard to get a nice pile of fish. The Barrens, Colyar Ledge and the...
Posted: 11/2/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Larry Nyugen brought the gang out to fish with Jeff on a rainy Halloween morning. They pounded the lower basin with Flatfish, Squiddy's and Jeff drifts fronted by big Mack's Lure's Smile Blades and b...
Posted: 11/4/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and Pepe' took Pep's wife Tevi and a couple of their grandkids (Xavier & Isaac) out to take advantage of the recent rainbow plant on Roses Lake. It was easy pickin's for everyone for planter rai...
Posted: 11/21/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff pounded the Barrens with Arlen on the 17th then with the Harmelings on the 18th to get them their fish. Depths of 175 to 225 worked best. Mack's Lure's smile blades in front of Needlefish Squid...
Posted: 11/24/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Terry and Sara from California came out to fish with Jeff for some Chelan Mackinaw. It was a slow start, but the bite picked up after the first hour or so. The Barrens and the Trench yielded some ni...
Posted: 12/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
So Pepe' convinced Jeff to go hunt for Kokanee in a driving rain by promising him a rack of ribs. For those that don't know, Pepe' makes the magic happen at Blueberry Hills in Manson, one of the top ...
Posted: 12/22/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The Kokanee are in. Jeff & Pepe' got on a nice kokanee bite and simultaneously fended off cabin fever. The weather was not for the faint of heart, but a nice collection of those Lake Chelan Kokanee,...
Posted: 12/23/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Pepe' took Jeff and his son, Emilio out to confirm that the winter Kokanee bite is on. IT IS. They worked Colyar Ledge for a 2 guy limit, then had enough time to run uplake, go ashore and bag braces...
Posted: 12/28/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Guide Emeritus, Brian Whitney had his dad come out with Jeff to get some of those chunky Kokanee. Pepe' got his limit too... There was one lucky / unlucky kokanee. Look at the tooth spacing to gues...
Posted: 1/13/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hi Everyone:
Jeff has been pounding away, prospecting for Kokanee and catching the Laker of a lifetime while I have been off the grid enjoying the best of Baja.
This report covers from 1/7/to 1/...
Posted: 1/13/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The format made me select something... Bear with me.
I'm going to intersperse our Chelan Reports with my trip to Mexico that I just got back from. This is for Day #1 (Jan 5).
My son in law and...
Posted: 1/15/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is a synopsis of our Day 2 fishing trip. The basics are in the previous report about Day1.
Day 2 we met Victor at 6AM , Mexican time. (That's somewhere between 6:15 and 6:20 for you gringos)...
Posted: 1/16/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Ray Lingle of Chelan brought his son up from Yakima for some winter Kokanee fishing on Chelan with Jeff. They pounded schools of fish from 50 to 150 feet over much deeper bottoms up at Colyar Ledge ...
Posted: 1/17/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Jason Brooks, outdoor writer was in the valley visiting his Dad, our guide emeritus Al Brooks. So they brought Jason's young son, Ryan out to fish with Jeff for our Kokanee for a few hours. They wor...
Posted: 1/19/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Pepe and granddaughter Yarisbel came out to fish for Kokanee with Jeff. They worked those suspended schools above the Narrows. Skill does matter as it only took 32 bites to put 20 in the box with th...
Posted: 1/19/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Jesse and Bill came out and trolled the barrens with Jeff for some Mackinaw. They dragged Jeff Drifts at 1.1mph within 5 feet of the bottom in depths of 165 to 220 feet. The bite was steady all day....
Posted: 1/21/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Eastern Bloc incursion on Chelan today, the Warsaw Pact is alive and well. Here's Vic displaying our spoils. Final tally: Polland- 20, Kokanee- 14...
The above is the report from our guide: Jeff W...
Posted: 1/21/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Day three and four of Mike and my excellent Cabo San Lucas adventure highlights were Mike's hour long battle with an approximately 200# Striped Marlin on Day 3. We got a small rooster, a dorado, a si...
Posted: 1/24/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
So , Repeat customer Joe Burke of West Allis, WI was nice enough to book us to surprise his son and daughter in law, Dave and Jordan Burke newly of Malaga for their housewarming gift. They had no ide...
Posted: 1/25/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Adam and Paul came over from Lacey to fish with Jeff. They worked hard for their Kokanee at Colyar Ledge, then came down to the barrens to finish the day fighting the wind and getting a few Macks.
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Posted: 1/26/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Pepe' convinced Jeff to take him out and enjoy the improving weather and to get some more Kokanee for Tevi. The same winter pattern that has been so effective continued today. Pounding schools of su...
Posted: 1/29/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Commissioner and Wenatchee fishing Wizard, the legendary Fishing Magician, Dave Graybill came out for a morning of Mack fishing with Jeff to get some fish, tell some stories and test some gear. They ...
Posted: 2/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Pepe' out to get some Kokanee. They worked Colyar ledge trolling through schools of Kokanee with a variety of gear. Mack's Kokanee Pro wedding rings with the glo burst Smile Blade was best...
Posted: 2/4/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is the last in the series of reports from Mike Wilson's & my week long trip to Cabo San Lucas, BCS, Mexico.
FYI: I picked the Yukon from the location kind of by random and kind of to be funny...
