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By: BigT
Posted: 5/27/2020
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of fun watching the bass boil up after our bait. Missed a lot of bites but still had a good day of fishing. Water was murky with lots and lots of pollen blowing everywhere.
By: BigT
Posted: 5/22/2020
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Great day to be on the lake we caught several large mouth even with the water being so murky from all the rain. Big one of the day was a whopping 6lb 4oz 21inch large mouth.
By: RedderShredder
Posted: 5/26/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This trip has been on the radar for awhile. Pretty excited to hear that a public launch was approved for this lake finally! But we decided that we didn't want to wait that long. My buddy and I hiked o...
By: bgolob18
Posted: 7/10/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to fish Chapman lake a couple days ago so I parked and hiked to the sw corner of the lake. It was very hot on the run in and I couldn't wait to get to the water and start fishing. I've bee...
By: lukejensen7
Posted: 7/16/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Hiked in on state land and Fished Chapman Lake finally. Big effort to get a boat in, however, fishing was good. Caught a 1.25lb Crappie that set a new personal record just trolling a spinner with a ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/18/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Chapman is closed to the public this year, found this out when I driven out to a locked front gate. I heard it as something to do with a public launch area. Lets hope that all the problems can be solv...
By: ridgerooster
Posted: 5/25/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My brother and I got out to Chapman at 5am Monday. Walked around the left side of the lake from resort. There are several places to fish where the dairy cows don't drink so the water is not muddied u...
By: tomnordman
Posted: 10/30/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Chapman for the 1st time this afternoon got there late 3:30 pm. it was cold a little windy and slight rain. having never fished here before I started trolling a red and black double hook w...
By: justinspotanske
Posted: 7/21/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first year kokanee fishing . Although they are a challenge to catch when you are learning . We fished (2 of us ) for 4 hours and we each caught our limit of ten each . very fun and good eat...
By: Wdstk3
Posted: 7/4/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well I can't say I was skunked now. Caught and released a Bow first trip around about 100 yards out from the launch. We ran around that end of the lake for a while then headed down the East side for...
By: Wdstk3
Posted: 6/30/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Chapman with my wife...nada...especially when others were catching. Bummer. My wife did get a good strike while on the way back to the launch to leave but that was it. One couple loading behi...
By: domyoji
Posted: 6/24/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the resort at 11am (lot later than I wanted to, but thats life), Paid my $10 and got a boat. Started on the south side and let the wind carry blow me down the lake dropping jigs and Power Lizza...
By: battleminnow
Posted: 6/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My dad, kids and I headed out to Chapman at about 3pm. We rented and rowed to the far end to hook some sure-fire fish for the kids... and struck out. Tried a number of different things but on this col...
By: the pimpologist
Posted: 6/8/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
well me and a buddy decided to try chapman again....( spent 7-10 am with no luck a couple days earlier)went from 9pm til anout midnight, spent most of the time last night by the "goose nest" with no l...
By: Nik
Posted: 6/2/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Rained literally all day and steady too not just showers. Still managed to coax a few bass out though. They weren't where they were supposed to be for the most part. All in all a pretty good day. ...
By: Shady136
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I love this lake. My buddy and I started fishing right about 9pm on the 14th and had our double limit by about 1:30am on the 15th. It would have been quicker but I spent some time messing around wit...
By: fishinator
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Chapman today from 3-6pm fished by the boat launch and went all the way to the end. We marked quite a few fish, but didn't have a bite. I was using an inflated worm on a slip sinker while my...
By: gdrees
Posted: 8/16/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son-in-law and I went out about 1 pm and stayed until just before dark. We fished a few locations along the north end of lake, but had no luck until we were at the northernmost end. There we had ...
By: eustace
Posted: 8/12/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Same as my last report only difference was a few more fish near 12'' and they were more around 21' down.
By: eustace
Posted: 8/12/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Yeah, Chapman is the place,we got to our spot on the north end of the lake around 9:00pm. This time we did move to a little to a somewhat shallower spot (I did not like lifting 110' of anchor rope). W...
By: eustace
Posted: 8/6/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My 2nd time on this lake and 1st time was last week and I only got one bite. This time a whole different story! we got on the water too early. First of all the fish didn't start biting untill well aft...
By: MaxExp82
Posted: 7/29/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Had high hopes for Chapman, as Roscoe said, fished all night with little to show . Used corn, mallows, eggs .. Fished through the night , no luck. I dont know If i would want to fish Chapman again. ...
By: troscoe
Posted: 7/29/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I have heard such great things, and I had expectations high. It wasn't that they were NOT met, but the fact that three of us were out there, finding schools of fish, dropping corn, eggs, marshm...
By: eustace
Posted: 7/28/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I finally tried Chapman w/ my buddy and his wife. I have heard so much about its kok fisherie I was ready and willing at a moments notice to hit it. Saddly to say no fish, zilch, notta, nothing. I had...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/26/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
great lake not alot of activity.nice smallies