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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: 5/13/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff wanted to find a more consistent PM Kokanee pattern so he convinced "Blueberry" Kari and the intrepid Pepe' Hernandez to come out for a few afternoon hours. He found them in the 30's deep over 6...
Posted: 3/29/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Jacob Hunter came out from Wisconsin to fish for Kokanee. We fished the break out of Mill Bay from 60 to 100 feet. The fish were deeply suspended from 50 to 80 feet. Almost every hook up turned int...
Posted: 3/5/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Bobby Loomis of Mack's Lures came out with OLD buddy, Mark Lippencott of Chelan to fish for Kokanee with Jeff. They worked the Colyar Ledge and the South Shore for these Kokanee. The "go to" present...
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: 11/7/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff went out on 11/4 by himself to prospect for Kokanee. Mack's mini squids and wedding rings behind their 0000 dodger baited with scented corn trolled at 1mph in the upper part of the lower basin g...
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Finck's came out and fished with us again. They wanted to try out the Lake Chelan Kokanee Fishing. Jeff worked the lower basin from Rocky Point to Chelan Shores at depths of mostly 80 to 100 fee...
Posted: 4/20/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Ron Stube was nice enough to bring along Nick Amato and come out to fish with me. The kokanee proved to be finicky. We worked the face of Mill Bay managing to lose 2 fish in the first hour. I had j...
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the MacDonald men out to chase some of those ever more elusive Lake Chelan Kokanee. He capitalized on the early start with an early double. After the first light flurry, it really slowed d...
Posted: 5/21/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a chance to entertain the Pautzke Folks. We fished for Macks and Kokanee, went to Blueberry Hills for Lunch and the Chelan Winery for ribs. They also helped me out with a kids fishing 101 class ...
Posted: 6/8/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Chris and Terry Fitzgerald came out and fished in a strong downlake wind with me for an evening kokanee trip. We found the right depth for our 'riggers at 80 feet down and had nice consistent action....
Posted: 5/31/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to go get some Kokanee after the Memorial Day weekend smack a Mack party. We trolled a combination of Mack's Lures wedding rings and mini Cha Cha Squidders. Mack's FlashLites and Silver H...
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the Mack's Lures gang out for some Kokanee fishing. They pounded the lower end of the lower basin with Mack's Lures Wedding Rings and Mack's Lures Cha Cha squidders baited with Pautzke's Fi...
Posted: 2/25/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Manson's star Restauranteurs out for a day prospecting Kokanee in the lower half of Lake Chelan. There are a wide range of sizes with the majority being foot long footballs and the biggest ...
Posted: 6/10/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Mark and Barbara Santos-Johnson and friend Lynn Boes came over to fish Chelan. We decided to see about the red hot Kokanee fishing. There seems to be 3 size classes of fish. 12", 14" and 15.5 (almo...
Posted: 3/21/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A big thanks to Phil Miller for coming out and fishing with me. We had a great time. The weather was sunny, cloudy, windy, calm, rainy, snowy, balmy... well, I guess it was March. We fished the fir...
Posted: 3/25/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The Varrelman women came out at the crack of 10AM to fish for Kokanee with me. We found them in depths of 50 to 100 feet. The fish were either deeply suspended or hugging the bottom We caught the f...
Posted: 3/26/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We started out making a pass along the face of Mill Bay to catch Kokanee. Then we ran the trench to get some lakers. The Kokanee bit Orange Mini Cha Cha Squidders baited with Pautzke's Fire Corn. T...
Posted: 6/6/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Jack and Sandi Angeline were nice enough to come out and fish with Jeff for Kokanee. Jack had a very nice 21" rainbow before they got off the dock. Jeff pounded depths of 45 to 90 feet at 1.1 mph wi...
Posted: 4/4/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and I decided to prospect some for Kokanee. We fished: Off of Rocky Pt, by the Monument and up in the Narrows. We caught 2 fish and had two others on, on Mack's Mini Cha Cha Squidders in Orang...
Posted: 2/14/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and Pepe' took advantage of improved weather to go chase Kokanee on the 13th and 14th. Trolling Mack's mini cha cha's behind their 7.6 Double D Dodger in chrome and chrome scale worked. Bait th...
Posted: 2/18/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/15/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Bobby from Macks Lure came out fishing with Jeff today! They went out around 11:00 AM and had a very successful 3 hours of fishing.
