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By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 7/1/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished three days last week and boated 206lbs of Mac. We started early trolling 150-175 FOW with Superfly flies, a wiggle bill tipped with herring. I also tried plugs and caught a few fish. I troll...
Posted: 6/2/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Look Mike and Rob two posts in one day. Lol. All kidding aside I try to post reports but seem to get side tracked. I will work on that in the future. Today we fished Lake Chelan. We started today ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/21/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
It was a long drive for the few fish we caught. Launched at the state park and fished out in front of Manson in the morning, only sticking two fish in the boat. Moved over to the yacht club area and ...
By: markbaldassare
Posted: 5/11/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few days at lake Chelan fished from around 5 am to 10 am first day caught 2 Kokanee with a couple of missed ones. Second day caught 1 Kokanee with no other bites for that day. 3rd day no fish ...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 5/9/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well Lake Chelan has been interesting lately. The fish still have not schooled up like normal. I believe it’s because of a late bloom of zooplankton and the feed has not moved down into the basin ye...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/5/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Brian (FishDawg), Katy (FishPrincess) and I met up at Chelan for our annual kokanee fishing camp out. We all arrived late Thursday night. I had a break down on the way over (just had the truck worke...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/29/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2018
Hot Spots: 1
I got to fish with Jeff Witkowski of Darrell and Dad's Family Guide Service, filming for a future TV episode on laker fishing. Along for the action was Bobby Loomis of Macks Lure.
The weather fro...
By: Jesusi
Posted: 4/18/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Great day off from work. Good fishing at roses lake in manson caught 4 and lost 3 overall was a good fishing. I fished right off the dock. There was more people fishing everyone seem to be catching ta...
By: haverman83
Posted: 4/15/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Buddy and I decided to take the 3 he drive to Chelan and catch some koks but mainly wanted to target macks we got to the state park at around 520 and got our gear ready and headed out to Wapato point ...
By: Cbass765
Posted: 4/15/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Made a trip to chelan this weekend to target some smallmouths. Hit the water at about 6:30am, fished the rock wall along the highway and around wapato point throwing crankbaits, plastics and jigs... n...
By: afk
Posted: 4/7/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hit it early and did ok. Best fishing was when the rain was really coming down.(10:00ish) Went the first 2 hours without a bump. tried all sorts of gear. I even put gloves on to see if that would help...
By: OGFboat
Posted: 4/4/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take the extended road trip to Chelan yesterday, and it was worth it. Had to launch at Manson due to my primary launch being closed until May for resurfacing of the parking lot??? THAT suc...
Posted: 4/2/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The kokanee fishing on Lake Chelan doesn't disappoint. There are a ton of fish starting to move down lake. The average size this year is bigger then the biggest of last season. We have been catching...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 4/1/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Lake Chelan three days this past week. We fished every day above Gold Cr. at some point during the day. First day we started above Gold Cr in 900 ft of water and caught a fair amount of fi...
Posted: 3/26/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2018
Hot Spots: 1
It no secret the kokanee fishing on Lake Chelan has been good. I spent a few days on the lake recently. All the boat ramps are good to use. Starting next month the millbay launch will be closed. We la...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 3/3/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I started my day running to Stehekin to do some prospecting. Let’s just say the fishing wasn’t real good. We picked up a couple Kokanee and had one take down on the Chinook rod that did not stick. The...
By: WashingtonGS
Posted: 2/23/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished several days last week with some fast times and some slow times. The fish are scattered and a lot of the fish we have been catching are not showing up on the sonar. We are starting to see so...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 2/15/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Melissa and I just returned from 3 great days on Lake Chelan. Although we didn't "limit out" I rated the trip a 4/5 as we caught enough to keep us excited and the weather cooperated nicely. The haul...
Posted: 2/1/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After wowing the crowds at the Western Washington Sportsman Show, Jeff took Pepe out on the 30th to make sure the Kokanee were still there, then took fishing legends Mike Hall and Bobby Loomis out to ...
By: afk
Posted: 1/17/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I put the MT-2 in at the State park around 10:00. As you can see in the picture there is not a lot of dock. I fished above the narrows. Caught fish from 90-150' on the wire. I was using home tied flie...
By: Silver Bullet
Posted: 1/14/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First time post
Had a great trip on Lake Chelan with Jeff at Darrell and Dads. Jeff was at the ramp to meet us at 7:30 after a short safety talk we were on our way. A short run up lake and we put ...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 1/10/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/7/2018
Hot Spots: 3
For many of my off seasons (winter), I've been drooling over the Darrel and Dad's reports from lake chelan. Finally, this year I convinced my family to take a trip over there in the winter. My dad a...
Posted: 12/20/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Pepe' out for another of their Kokanee forays. He checked out areas from Mill Bay to 25 Mile Creek. Working just above schools that were marked mostly 50 to 150 feet deep over deeper botto...
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 ...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 11/18/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I had not fished Lake Chelan since this past spring. My goal was to go for a multispecies day but primarily focus on bringing home a limit of Kokanee. I launched from the kayak and jigged up a few sma...