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By: alkalibee
Posted: 6/18/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Long time reader only my second post. Staying at the Worldmark in Chelan and Dad brought his boat. We have been enjoying the 3-4 lb Kokanee from Lake Roosevelt so even though we picked up 8 Kokanee ...
By: DjButler
Posted: 6/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This morning was a late start as I slept through my alarm. My buddy Aaron's text with a picture of two fish he had already caught woke me up and got me pumped. Finally on the water around 5:30. Wire s...
By: DjButler
Posted: 6/17/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Made the decision to wake up at 3 am and hit the road to Chelan for the weekend. Packed up all the gear and I was off. Absolutely epic out there in terms of bites. Started at 40-50 ft in 140-160 fow. ...
By: senior dragon
Posted: 6/13/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I have never posted a report before, but have been a faithful member and love checking the site every day. I don't care about pictures of me but I took my oldest daughter and one of my grandsons out S...
By: Dr. T
Posted: 6/12/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday we took our new fishing boat out to organize, setup and learn the onboard systems. The type of down riggers, GPS/sounder, TR-1 are all new to me so I had a great time figuring them out. The...
By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 6/5/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 2
NWFR Spring Gathering - A Fish Princess Adventure
We closed our Lake Chelan adventure for 2016 in style.
Knowing we would have to pack up and break camp by mid-day we got on the water about 0600...
By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 6/4/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 3
NWFR Spring Gathering - A Fish Princess Adventure
We were up bright and early on Saturday morning at about 0430 with plans to fish the sunrise bite then come back in for breakfast. Well, the fish h...
By: Fish Dawg
Posted: 6/4/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 2
NWFR Spring Gathering - A Fish Princess Adventure
Mike and the whole NWFR team put on another first class event for those of us that made the trek to Chelan for the weekend! Thanks to the NWFR team...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Chelan for the holiday weekend and camped nearby at Alta Lake. Targeted Macks on the lower basin for the morning with little success. Hooked one decent cutthroat and no macks.
Headed ...
By: DjButler
Posted: 5/30/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Well, this morning was much more successful than yesterday. Taking notes from my last outing I headed back out to the point and found my first marks in 90 fow. Fish were suspended between 25-50ft dow...
By: DjButler
Posted: 5/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Today is the start of my memorial weekend! My original plan was to fish CLE Elum lake but those plans changed quick when my sister and her boyfriend invited me to stay at their cabin off of Wapato Poi...
Posted: 5/28/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2016
Hot Spots: 3
We hit Lake Chelan Yesterday. Fishing was amazing. We started down lake and worked our way up lake. Got the first rod in at 30 feet. Before I get get the second rod down. The first had a nice kokanee ...
Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers trips from 5/19 to 5/21. Colyar Ledge and the Slide to the slide have produced for us in the early mornings. Later in the morning, the face of Manson Bay and the Doughnut Hole has...
Posted: 5/19/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The Finck's came out to fish with Jeff again. They wanted to target Kokanee. They even let Jeff get his fish! Then they moved in closer and got some Cutts. Mack's Lures Kokanee Pro Wedding Rings o...
Posted: 5/17/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers May 14th and 15th. Our many time repeat customers, Dick Thaden with Dave & Josh Tripp came out with us on a beautiful Saturday morning. We pounded Colyar Ledge then finished along...
Posted: 5/13/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff wanted to find a more consistent PM Kokanee pattern so he convinced "Blueberry" Kari and the intrepid Pepe' Hernandez to come out for a few afternoon hours. He found them in the 30's deep over 6...
Posted: 5/11/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Cousin Robert Schlief of Boise was nice enough to come out and help me thin out the lower basin Mackinaw on Lake Chelan for a couple of hours. Working tight to the bottom at 1mph with Jeff drifts in ...
By: Jose Diaz
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Great morning at Lake Chelan. Launched out of the State Park, then drove around until I saw fish on the finder. Threw marks down and once I noted a cluster of way points in 170' of water, I went back...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Many thanks to Mike, Aaron, Randy and and all of the NWFR crew for another great Chelan camp out and get together. Many thanks to the sponsors for their support and goodie bags of tackle and other st...
Posted: 5/7/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Both Jeff & I had great mornings on Lake Chelan catching Lakers for our customers. We trolled Jeff Drifts, made from Mack's Lure components baited with a piece of Northern Pikeminnow at 1mph within 5...
By: atroutfisherman
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Although I did not fish and was too early for the Pot Luck Dinner, I had a great time visiting the NWFR rally at Lake Chelan State Park. I enjoyed the fast and furious ride on the LifeProof Boat. A ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is a fishing report for the long weekend of the Chelan Get-together. I fished Friday afternoon solo, Saturday morning (until 9:30am) with my friend Rob and his daughters, and Sunday until early a...
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Roger and Roger Calvert were nice enough to come out and provide adult supervision for Jeff so he could do some Mack fishing. They worked Jeff Drift's along Colyar Ledge, in the Narrows and along Man...
By: Mike10gs
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
So this is for the whole weekend at chelan.
My girlfriend(chantelle) and I went to lake chelan for the first time to camp and to be there for the get together. I'll try to make this quick..
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By: Hunter757
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 3
So this is a three day report from 4/29-5-1, we headed over for the NWFR get together and arrived in town Friday around noon and got camp set up at Chelan city park. We then ran over to the burger jo...