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By: bryanpeck
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/30/2013
Hot Spots: 3
With all the reports of monster kokes coming out of Chelan, the Fish Princess and I decided to go on the prowl to find a few of our own.
Left home at about 0445 and was putting the boat in the wate...
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I worked Colyar ledge to try some stinger experiments. They worked pretty good. attach a #8 treble a couple of inches in back of the trail hook on a Mack's Cha Cha to get some of those short biters....
Posted: 5/8/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Although we only converted one out of the first seven bites, the Chelan Fresh guys hit a nice pace to pile up the Mackinaw on Colyar's Ledge. We hit fish all the way from 230 feet out to and includin...
Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The Hainline family came out to fish with us this morning. The deepwater was hot mostly from 280 to 320 feet deep. Everything we threw at them got bit. Worden Lures Flatfish, Mack's Cha Cha Squidde...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 2
This is a report for our Lake Chelan kokanee trip May 3-May 6th (fishing the 4 and 5th). For the whole story read the “Lake Chelan Kokanee Get Together May 3-6th” forum posting:
After months of col...
By: Mike@Bills
Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got my second chance to fish Chelan! I was there 2 weeks ago and caught 9 with the biggest being 18 inches. My goal this time was a 20 incher and a limit........ Lets just say things have slowed a lit...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 2
This report covers Saturday evening, Sunday all day, and Monday morning.
After our Epic Trip of a month ago, I was pretty excited to be able to return to Lake Chelan and go after more of those amaz...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2013
Hot Spots: 3
The report of an epic fishing trip
Arriving in Chelan about 5pm firday night me and Bassplayer17 (aka Tony) were in a mad rush to get out on the lake! not knowing were to launch or were to go we la...
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took the MacDonald men out to chase some of those ever more elusive Lake Chelan Kokanee. He capitalized on the early start with an early double. After the first light flurry, it really slowed d...
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a chance to do some uplake work on the 3rd. Then Lynn Smith was willing to let us get the kids some kokanee on the morning of the 4th. We found fish just downlake of Painted Rocks on the 3rd. T...
Posted: 5/4/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The Laketrout bite was tough today but we managed to catch a few in the Trench. Everything was short striking and I worked my rear off to try to get the fish to come back to the Bait after the initial...
By: stryker17
Posted: 5/3/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/2/2005
Hot Spots: 3
Hit the lake 2 days in a row, tough fishing, 3 fish each day........... put in about 7 hrs each day, saw very few fish caught, blue roof condos ,200 ft water, fish at 90ft, green back flasher with ora...
Posted: 5/2/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan continues to be very productive for Laketrout and Kokanee in the lower basin. I have been targeting the Trench and Rocky Point area in depths from 180 to 240ft to find the Lakers. The Koks...
By: stryker17
Posted: 4/28/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/25/2013
Hot Spots: 3
The wife and I hit the water at 6;45 AM, went 3 hrs with no hits, threw everything we had at them, than one hit, nice koke, but broke the leader ( note to self, do not use 6lb leader from last year ag...
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We hammered away at Colyar ledge to get nice numbers of Lakers before the wind blew us away with 25+mph stuff with a couple of very impressive 30 mph wind shears at 90 degrees to the prevailing wind. ...
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We worked that same pattern to good effect although a wind kind of blew us out in the middle of the trip. Jeff's folks got a nice 12# before they had to go back to selling RV's. My folks got another...
By: MotoBoat
Posted: 4/26/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Word is the fish are scattered. Small schools of fish when you do find them. Catch a few out of a school, try and stay on them. They move around. Making fishing hit and miss. But generally slow.
S...
By: Big D
Posted: 4/26/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up Lake Chelan this morning early with my son. The water was like glass and the sun was shining enough that we had to put on sun screen prior to 8:00 am. We had four rods running off the back of t...
Posted: 4/26/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a morning and evening trip. A moderate downlake blow made it difficult to hit the spots on Colyar Ledge. We still had pretty good fortune in the morning on Silver Horde's Kingfisher Lite spoons ...
Posted: 4/25/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to Scott Wilson and his gang as well as Nancy Hickey and her buddy for fishing with us. We are pounding deep water for nice numbers of Lakers. Mack's Lures Cha Cha Squidder in glow baited wit...
Posted: 4/23/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Kokanee and Laketrout fishing has been great over this reporting period. The Ace Hi-Fly has been for the laketrout and the 2/0 chrome dodger with a double whammy has been for the koks. I have targeted...
Posted: 4/23/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We worked the same pattern as yesterday, except we did not use outside rods at all. Just 2 downrigger rods. The bite was too hot. Fishing from 265 to 315 feet produced all the action with best spee...
Posted: 4/22/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well,we had a fun day catching lakers on our Yacht Club pattern today. We spent some time to get a few Kokanee then hammered away at Lakers for the remainder of the day. The weather was lovely and t...
Posted: 4/22/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Once again, Jeff went after Mackinaw up above the Yacht Club. The venerable U20 Luminous Chartreuse Flatfish by Worden Lures was somewhat more productive than Silver Horde's Ace Hi Fly and Mack's Cha...
Posted: 4/21/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I was blessed to have the dean of Washington saltwater fishing with me on Saturday. Tom Nelson of Salmon University brought his son and grandson out to fish with me. He wanted to get a taste of what...