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Posted: 8/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well after an early morning blow out / lightning storm Chris Noeske brought his kids and nephew out with me for an evening trip on Lake Chelan. I could not get those trench fish to bite. We pounded ...
Posted: 8/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Mack Bar produced fish early for Andy and his crew for this evening trip. The Jones' had a great time and took a nice pile of Mackinaw home for dinner. It was another beautiful evening on Lake Chelan...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/4/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a great morning. I worked what has become a standard morning pattern for me. Early I try to make at least 2 and sometimes 4 passes over the Bar to get a big fish, then fade into the flat th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/4/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The great thing about getting a deckhand trained is it frees you up to do research. While Jaime preps the boat in the morning I get to throw a spinner around the docks at Mill Bay to see who is lurki...
Posted: 8/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It has been a wild ride this last week here on Lake Chelan with Thunder and lightning starting many fires in our area and our Local Lakeview drive inn catching fire which I caught a Picture of while I...
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again the little f7 purple glow flatfish on the outriggers produced the big fish. The Slothower and Harrell family reunion gang fished with us. We hit the big fish (8lb 12 oz) on Mack Bar early...
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Ansary Crew came all the way from Afghanistan to fish with us. Jeff took them out on the North River and ran to the Yacht Club. He fished T4 purple glow flatfish and did nicely. They had some f...
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The little F7 purple glow flatfish on the outrigger rods scored biggest for this morning trip. Two passes on the Bar yielded 3 decent fish so we faded into the flat. It was pretty good. We added 5 ...
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a great evening out with Dale and Hunter Payne of Gig Harbor. We started out trying to reproduce my late morning bite in the flat, but only garnered one fish in about two hours of trolling. W...
Posted: 7/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
That little purple glow F7 flatfish at the nursery and again on the Bar scored for the Follette family all the way from Singapore to visit our valley. Check out our sunset with fish pictures.
Anto...
Posted: 7/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a great morning to take Tommy (8) and his father Stuart Hoisington of Tacoma. We started a bit later than usual so we made two passes over Mack Bar. That netted us a nice quality fish and a cou...
By: dovidan
Posted: 7/29/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I was staying in Chelan overnight & thought I would give it a try knowing that SMB are present. About 8:15 PM I parked in the ferry parking lot, snapped on a 3/8th oz green Gitzit, & casually flipped ...
Posted: 7/28/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those little F7 purple glow flatfish continued to out produce everyting else. It was nice steady bite on the Bar albeit no giant fish. Then we continued to plunk them working through the indetermina...
Posted: 7/28/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This evening started off with a battle with the wind blowing out of the east so i had to fish the Yacht Club area to find the Biters today..
The Ace Hi-Fly by Silverhorde baited with Pike minnow Stri...
Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those T4 Purple Glow flatfish off the outriggers allowed Andy to produce some great fishing for the Greve kids from Sammammish. Boy, did they have a ball! Woo hoo! Work the Bar, the Yacht Club and ...
Posted: 7/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again that little F7 Purple Glow Flatfish on the outriggers scored the biggest two fish of the morning. It looked like it might be one of those days as we had the first 3 fish pull off. But the...
Posted: 7/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
July 25th, 2010
Started again today going to the BAR!!!!! Mack Bar on Lake Chelan that is...But without a nibble in 4 passes over the shallow hump, I decided to move into the Lower trench and Pull th...
Posted: 7/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
July 24th, 2010
Today was alot tougher fishing than Yesterday..Trolled over alot of fish but they were light striking everything I passed by them. Wasn't that the fish were not hungry I think that it...
Posted: 7/23/2010
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today started with the wind just ripping out of the Narrows. Wasn't sure I was going to be successful but when finally made it to Mack Bar the wind had slowed enough to fish..
Trolled the Ace Hi-Fly ...
Posted: 7/23/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Bar produced it's standard 3 fish on the first 3 passes of the morning. Then we faded into the indeterminate flat fighting wind that varied from 10 to 25 mph. We plucked a fish here and a fish t...
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our little F7 purple glow flatfish on the outrigger rod saved the day. It got 3 of the 5 fish that we put in the boat including the 2 biggest ones. We started on the Bar (no surprise there). We got...
Posted: 7/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It's really nice having your eldest grandson deckhand for you. He preps the boat and I get to fish. It frees me up for 5 to 15 minutes before customers show up. Today was pretty cool. I got 7 or...
Posted: 7/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had an evening to spend with Family so we went out swimming and fishing on Lake Chelan..Trolled uplake over Mack Bar and saw lots of fish but no biters..Marked the fish on the GPS and let the Auto tro...
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After getting back from a leisurely trip to Wapato to get some suspended Rainbows my 8 year old granddaughter said it was time for me to take her fishing. I decided the nursery fish need a bit of thi...
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After a nice start on the Bar and 0500, the bite slowed for Andy as the morning wind uncharacteristically picked up. He finally pulled up and ran to the Yacht Club and cleaned house for the Clinton N...