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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: 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: 3/11/2010
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: 3/30/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is a great windup to a wonderful Steelhead Season. The Stennes' once again put their guys on some nice steelhead on the next to the last day of the season. One last shot tomorrow to work those ...
Posted: 4/1/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We closed the season with a bang. Andy and the Stennes' fished from Pateros to Bridgeport pounding their favorite holes and seems from Pateros all the way up to Bridgeport. Sixteen Steelhead to the ...
Posted: 12/15/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After fishing Rufus for the morning we dropped down to Pateros and fished the "Rocks" for Steelhead. The water was way low with almost now movement. We couldn't get bit in the usual areas, so we mov...
Posted: 12/3/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our guy, Jerrod Riggan of Big River Steelhead had a great day on Wednesday. He had John and Chris Hedges from Wenatchee out. They had 20 steelhead to the net with 6 more lost on the way. He had the...
Posted: 12/8/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our Steelhead guide, Jerrod Riggan had a great day in the Brewster area. The bite held off until 9AM and then it lit up. He ended with 14 to the boat. The average fish size was a robust 9 pounds. ...
Posted: 1/20/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Dale Rees from Tacoma had been out with us before on Lake Chelan and wanted to try a multi-venue day. He decided that he'd like to fish for Steelhead for half a day and at Rufus Woods for Triploids f...
Posted: 1/24/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy wanted to show Jeff some runs and seams below Wells Dam so they fished from 7AM to 1PM. They varied the jig depth from 6 to 15 feet under Thill Big Fish Slider bobbers. The 1/8th oz. Calypso co...
Posted: 12/15/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jerrod Riggan had a couple of guys out today on the upper end of Lake Pateros while we fished Rufus and the lower end of Lake Pateros.
He had a great day, with his customers boating a dozen steelhe...
Posted: 12/28/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a great day mostly at the Pateros rocks for Andy with the Garland crew. They brought 14 fish to the boat. They got 4 keepers. The remainder were wild steelhead and one big (unfortunately unt...
Posted: 1/6/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy went Steelhead fishing for the evening between Chelan Falls and Wells Dam for a couple of hours. The bite was great with 4 fish to the boat. One nice keeper. Fishing about 5-10 feet down over ...
Posted: 1/7/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Stennes' were out both the 5th and 6th. Wednesday was the better day with 16 fish hooked and 10 in the net. However, only 2 were hatchery fish that could be kept. The pictured fish was caught a...
Posted: 9/28/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Methow opened for Steelhead so our guide Brian "Met Steel" Whitney took a buddy up to test the waters. They each caught a few wild fish and hatchery fish to boot. The numbers seem Ok even though...
Posted: 1/31/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy and Jeff went out to prospect some runs and seams in the area between Wells Dam and the Chelan River for Steelhead. They had pretty good success with 5 fish to the boat in about 3 hours of exper...
Posted: 1/8/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well our Steelhead guys had out Dan and Susie Flick with Susie's brother Mike Russell. After braving the ice covered roads and ramp they mostly fished in the Pateros area. The key was increased wate...
Posted: 5/12/2014
Species: Squawfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Andy Kawafune out to assist him on his quest to catch 50 species of fish in Washington 2014. He got 3 today. Mackinaw, Northern Pikeminnow and Smallmouth Bass. He also caught Rainbow Trou...
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Squawfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After their trip Jeff had Jaime catch a bunch of Northern Pikeminnow to us as bait. Just baited a hook with Laker entrails. Then he got to fillet them so we have fresh bait for our Cha Cha's and Ace...
Posted: 7/18/2011
Species: Squawfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our guide, Jeff "squaw daddy" Witkowski educated the deckhands on the bait procurement technique. Jaime and Ray got into it. Jaime got the granddaddy fish of the day there. We used laker entrails o...
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...
