Took a friend out on a guide trip. He had a bass club event upcoming. He didn't know the lake well and asked if I would guide for him. First spot we used top water poppers. Has been a good spot and was again. Once the light hit the water we saw huge schools of SM. Switched to MAD BASS Turbo tubes in Natural Craw, Grn Pmkin Red and Smoke Red. We saw as many as 50 cruisers and on each retrieve w/or w/out a fish had 5-7 followers. We fished many spots and had similar success. It had to be the best day I have had on Lake Chelan in years. The sizes ranged from 2# to 5# plus..My concern is we have a front coming through this weekend and temps will fall up to 20 degrees. Coming off of a full moon and the front could change things rapidly. I hope my friend can still find those same fish. If so, he has a win for himself. Lake Chelan will be getting better as we approach cooler weather and water temps fall. When these SM get on the fall bite, look out..We didn't take any pictures because we were on the run finding locatons.


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