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Posted: 4/26/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tish and Bill came out and fished the afternoon. They had to brave some of that spring PM wind, but they caught some fish. We focused on Mack's cha cha squidders with big blades and small squids tip...
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Posted: 4/26/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Sometimes you just gotta take your grandson's fishing. Chandler (12) and Jesse (11), set lines, reeled fish and worked the net for their limits of Roses Rainbows. The old planters are pretty chunky ...
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Posted: 5/23/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those little B2 squids with the small wiggle fin in front baited with a bit of Northern Pikeminnow was once again the ticket. We started out the morning pounding the pattern around Sunnybank. We the...
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Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff & Brian took the Estep's out. They had a banner day working the area around Mack Bar. Everything got bit some, but U20 flatfish in either Luminous Chartreuse or Purple Glow worked best. The bi...
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Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Swenson's wanted a bunch of Kokanee so I got to host another 3 generation fishing trip. We just pounded the area from Lakeside to Chelan Shores. The most productive pattern was about 20 feet dow...
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Posted: 5/16/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had Leon Lilly and Cheryl Rodzen come out for a 4 hour boat with us after pounding the Bass all weekend. Had a difficult time triggering fish on and around the Bar. Moved to the face of Manson Bay a...
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Posted: 5/17/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Dave and Doris Wilding were nice enough to come out with me and fish this morning. They were up from Bountiful, Utah. We pounded the face of Manson Bay for 7 lakers. Then we faded into deep water o...
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Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the fishing around Sunnybank continued to cool. We got a nice 8.5 pound fish to bite early on the lower end of the Bar. We plucked a couple more quality fish on 2 more passes, but that left us...
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Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy ran his guys along the same pattern with about the same results as I had. He ran B2 squids firts over the Bar (picked up a nice big fish) then over to Sunnybank. Bar depths are 119 to 135 and S...
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Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pulling those B2's along the bottom over at Sunnybank and the face of Manson Bay produced a nice pile of smallish fish. We couldn't get bit on the Bar this AM. We used a chunk of Northern Pikeminnow...
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Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish "old school" with long time customer Dave Mitchell and his kids-in-laws. What a great morning. The fishing was fine. We caught fish in the water below the Bar and just out of Manson B...
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Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Again, going "old school" and fishing U20 flatfish all around gave us our shot of quality fish in the area between the Bar and Rocky Point. The deeper spots were loaded. The face of Manson Bay wasn'...
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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...
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Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
T4 Flatfish in purple glow and Luminous Chartreuse worked above the Narrows this morning. I trolled in the Narrows for 3/4 of an hour without getting bit, even though there were a lot of fish visible...
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Posted: 6/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Duells were up from Phoenix, Arizona for a wedding. They decided to try their hand at fishing for Lake Chelan's lakers. Since the young guys had a bachelor party to attend the night before they ...
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Posted: 5/31/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff had a great morning trip with the Bliy's from Redmond on a spectacular Lake Chelan morning. The South Shore run from Sunnybank all the way to Pat & Mike's. Depths of 140 to 190 worked. As alwa...
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Posted: 6/1/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Clark family came out and fished with us in the lower basin for Lakers. We worked the same pattern, pounding the South Shore from Sunnybank to Pat & Mikes. Worden's U20 Purple Glow Flatfish were...
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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: 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: 12/20/2010
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: 6/7/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow U20 flatfish were the effective lure for the Mauch's of Yakima. Chase and Brian got some early fish on the Bar, a few fish from Minneapolis Beach and the trench. ...
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Posted: 6/8/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had David Kimble and Gary out for a couple of hours on Chelan this morning. Pounded the Bar with T4 flatfish off the downrigger rods and U20 flatfish off the outrigger rods. It was breezy, cool and ...
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Posted: 6/9/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
John Endresen and Fred Berryman came out and fished with us today. We had a very hot bite in the lower basin early in the morning. Our first 3 hookups were doubles, all on quality fish. It slowed d...
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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...
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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, ...
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