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Posted: 4/9/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Roses for a couple of hours this evening with Andy. There are still plenty of fish to be caught, but it takes a little effort now. They must circulate in pods. You'll go through dry spells then...
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Eric Ferreira brought his boys, Benjamin and Philip out to fish with us on Roses Lake. The recent plant of triploids ratcheted up the excitement with bigger fish to be had. Fishing with flies, there...
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: 1/20/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Dale Rees of Tacoma had been out with us on Chelan to fish for Mackinaw (Aka: Lake Trout) before and wanted to try a multi-venue trip. We decided to have him fish for Steelhead in the AM and move to...
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I decided that I better get out with the boss and pre-fish Roses for a big family group that I had scheduled on the 3rd. Sandy's retired now, so we made it out there at the "crack of 10:45 AM". We h...
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling Black sparkly Wooly Buggers from #2 to #8 behind an action disk by wiggle fin created well over a hundred bites and limits for our intrepid anglers. We did this in about 3.5 hours. We even ...
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My son-in-law, Mike and my neighbor Donn were nice enough to forego other activities to assist me in getting seven of our grandchildren out fishing on "Black Friday" at our local pond, Roses Lake. Th...
Posted: 4/18/2012
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Our fly fishing guy, Brian Whitney invited me to go give Antilon a shot since the ice was finally off of it. We drug wooly buggers, cone head muddlers and Carey (a plug for Mike) Specials around on f...
Posted: 4/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Black Cone head wooly buggers behind a small clear action disk by Wiggle fine worked best. The East end of the lake was the most productive. Donn Vey of Manson came out with me to harrass Jaime with...
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bare Red hooks behind a dodger got us some sockeye. Did not get bit by Chinook yet. The Sockeye are pretty nice fish and give a good accounting of themselves on light gear. Fish the Douglas County ...
Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The current was ripping so hard at Wells, the guys didn't think it was safe to fish it. So they put in at Brewster and ran up to the mouth of the Okanogan. Jeff, Al and Andy got 6 sockeye in about 2...
Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Tangborn crew wanted to focus on Chinook so Andy and Jeff ran a plug cut herring off the downrigger for Chinook. Also hanging out on the Columbia side of the channel helped. Finally broke throug...
Posted: 7/28/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy once again had a banner day at the mouth of the Okanogan pounding Sockeye. More of these fish are in the 4 to 6 pound range. You might try adding a Mack's Lures smile blade and a set of stack b...
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well once again the tandem team of Andy and Jeff socked it to the sockeye off the mouth of the Okanogan River. The Burk crew from Okanogan picked up 13 sockeye, but had numerous fish bite but fail to...
Posted: 8/6/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Dave Mitchell brought his buddy, Dave Kronbach of Seattle out to sample our Upper Columbia sockeye fishing. For those of you that are wondering, it's still hot. There also a lot of Chinook in the ar...
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff pounded away with shrimp baited hooks behind a big chrome dodger off the mouth of the Okanogan River to get those Sockeye. It appears the run is tailing off, but he hung with it and got the Gano...
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing tandem red hooks baited with Pautzke cured shrimp behind a 00 chrome dodger produced sockeye off the mouth of the Okanogan today for Jeff. It was difficult fishing, but all in all there was a...
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tandem red hooks baited with pieces of shrimp cured with Pautzke cure behind a 00 chrome dodger worked for Andy today below Wells Dam. He found that when the bite slowed adding a Mack's Lures stack b...
Posted: 4/24/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The Glen Rose party came out to fish with Jeff again. This time they targeted Kokanee along with the Derby gang that was on Chelan. Depths varied from 20' to 150' depending on what the sonar was tel...
Posted: 8/19/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Plug cut herring with a 0 Dodger produced the Chinook. The Mack's Lures Double D dodger and pink mini Cha Cha baited with Pautzke Fire Cured shrimp caught the Sockeye. It should turn more and more t...
Posted: 11/24/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the regionally famous Pepe' Hernandez of Blueberry Hills fame along with Gilbert (the owner of East Wenatchee's El Porton) out to prospect for early winter Kokanee. It was a rainy day, but ...
Posted: 7/21/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and Andy took out the Templeton crew below Wells Dam for sockeye. They boated nine sockeye and a jack Chinook. They also released a 10lb+ steelhead. Once again shrimp baited hooks behind chrom...
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff pounded away off the mouth of the Okanogan to try and break through on the Chinook, but no luck. So he ran some Sockeye gear and got the Bennion's some sockeye to take home.
Anton Jones - Dar...
Posted: 7/23/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Jeff and Andy beat the red paint off the hooks today. They took the Zimmerman's of Tumwater and the writer Rob Phillips out to sample the Brewster Sockeye Fishing. Once again, shrimp baited ho...
Posted: 9/30/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Brian and Ray up to see if there were still Chinook to be caught. Ray got to catch his first Columbia Salmon and the biggest fish of his life, a 16 pounder. Brian got to catch a truly big ...
