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Posted: 4/15/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2009
Hot Spots: 2
We started out the morning with the weather cold, but the fishing hot. Then the weather warmed but the bite went cold. At the end of our morning trip we had four Mackinaw and a beautiful landlocked ...
Posted: 4/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I thought I would get the pulse on Rufus. Like previous reports said it is slow due to cold weather. We got a little bit going when the weather was sunny and mild. When the next front pushed in, it...
Posted: 4/18/2009
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 2
This was one of those days. We guessed right early and put 2 double digit Landlocked Chinook in the boat before 8AM. What a great day. One Chinook hit a whole herring rigged to spin. The other hit...
Posted: 4/28/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
All's well that ends well. It was a slow start in the trench trolling for Macks and Chinook. We found them in the indeterminate flat between Rocky Point, Minneapolis and the Bar and the bite was on....
Posted: 5/4/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 3
This time the start and finish were pretty good and their was a lull in the middle. Mack Bar is starting to hold some fish again. Last year May and June were good months for fish up on the "Bar". W...
Posted: 5/8/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Again the majority of the Lake Trout (aka: Mackinaw) came from the indeterminate flat between the Bar and Minneapolis. Where the flat dropped into depths of 200 to 215 were most productive. They rea...
Posted: 5/11/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The morning of the 11th was breezy but fishable. Our fish continued to hit in the dips in that indeterminate flat between the Bar and Minneapolis. You have to be ready to capitalize on the bites. W...
Posted: 5/12/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Wow! The morning bite has been good. It was a very windy morning, and restricted what we could do, but the bite was great. We again, pounded the indeterminate flat between Rocky Point uplake to the...
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 2
Wow! What a beautiful morning to fish. Calm, warm and sunny weather mixed with willing fish and wonderful children. This morning bite on the indeterminant flat just below the Bar continues unabated...
Posted: 5/26/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The morning pattern of trolling for Lakers in that indeterminate flat between the Bar and Rocky Point continues to be consistently productive. From 6AM to 9AM or so troll those little F-7 flatfish...
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The only thing hotter than the weather is the fishing. We are fishing between the Bar and Rocky Point in the morning. Depths of 170 to 220 are most productive. Most times pulling F-7 purple glow fl...
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing sure has been consistent. Working the flat below the Bar continues to produce great numbers of Lakers with the occasional nice landlocked Chinook to really make things interesting. F-7 p...
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Well, if you get a day off from fishing you should go fishing. I've always wanted to fool around on Omak Lake for trophy potential Cutts. Thursday was the day. We fished the very Southern end of th...
Posted: 2/23/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Stennes' guided Glen Musser of Wenatchee and John Senseney of East Wenatchee for an Upper Columbia Steelheading adventure. They caught 9 hatchery fish, 2 natives and a triploid rainbow. Four wer...
Posted: 3/1/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Steelhead fishing on the Upper Columbia continues to perk along. In this late season, cold water time of the year you have got to be quick on the hook set. Basic rigging consists of medium sized spi...
Posted: 3/2/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We worked for our Steelhead today. Running and gunning was the order of the day. We hit holes and runs virtually all along the stretch from just above Wells Dam to Chief Joseph. Red glitter jigs un...
Posted: 3/3/2010
Species: Tiger Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/3/2010
Hot Spots: 2
Well, what do you do if you just want to go fish for a couple of hours in the rain in the Chelan Valley? Go to little Roses Lake. The ice has been off for about a week now. The fishing is red hot. ...
Posted: 3/11/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, our Steelhead guys made me look like I was fishing for bait. They took out three guys. Pounding away in runs and seams from Pateros up to Bridgeport, they got those late season steelies to bit...
Posted: 3/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/12/2010
Hot Spots: 2
I had the Garcia family from Moses Lake out fishing on Chelan today. It started off kind of slow on the Bar. We got 3 fish and lost 2. I tried the flat between the Bar and Minneapolis for a while i...
Posted: 3/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Victor Doperalski of the Lake Washington Puget Sound Anglers brought his son Davide with us for an 8 hour gig on Lake Chelan. Andy Byrd guided them. It was a slow start early, but picked up after th...
Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Brady and Lanny Bumgarner came out for a mornings fishing with us. It wasn't as good a bite as yesterday, but it was OK. The upper shoulder of the Bar produced early then the trench produced a few f...
Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I was given instructions that I had 90 minutes to take our 8 year old granddaughter, McKinley to Roses to catch some fish. Not that she's bossy or anything. Had to fit it in between church, lunch an...
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Kayla Hutton was nice enough to bring her Dad, Dan and come fishing with me on her Spring Break. We had a promising start on the Bar, hitting three fish in 2 passes in depths of 115 to 135 feet deep....
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had some friends over for the first grill party of the season. We decided to take the kids fishing for a few minutes. Ran down and dumped the North River into Roses and were trolling in about 10 min...
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It continues to be work to get those Mackinaw to bite. We are fishing the Bar early then hitting the holes in the indeterminate flat between the Bar and Rocky Point. The trench produced some fish la...
