Search
Darrell and Dad's's Reports
Change View:
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
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...
Posted: 4/20/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Ron Stube was nice enough to bring along Nick Amato and come out to fish with me. The kokanee proved to be finicky. We worked the face of Mill Bay managing to lose 2 fish in the first hour. I had j...
Posted: 4/19/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The Kokanee proved to be stubborn for me so we moved up to the Yacht Club and pounded away in 240 to 310 feet of water to catch some Mackinaw.
The Kokanee that we caught were on orange mini cha c...
Posted: 4/16/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Special thanks to Jerry Bradley for bringing out John Lopind and John Riley to fish with me. We pounded the 60 to 85 foot depths below Wapato Pt. for Kokanee. We once again fished Mack's Lures Orang...
Posted: 4/15/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It has been kooky over here. The Kokanee have been hot and cold. Fish for these guys with ultra-light tackle for a real treat. They are very acrobatic, achieving long line releases a good percentag...
Posted: 4/2/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was another beautiful day on Lake Chelan. We pounded away in the trench to get the Benson family their Lake Chelan Mackinaw. Karissa (9) and Taya (5) learned how to handle the rods really well. ...
Posted: 3/29/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Jacob Hunter came out from Wisconsin to fish for Kokanee. We fished the break out of Mill Bay from 60 to 100 feet. The fish were deeply suspended from 50 to 80 feet. Almost every hook up turned int...
Posted: 3/26/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We started out making a pass along the face of Mill Bay to catch Kokanee. Then we ran the trench to get some lakers. The Kokanee bit Orange Mini Cha Cha Squidders baited with Pautzke's Fire Corn. T...
Posted: 3/25/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The Varrelman women came out at the crack of 10AM to fish for Kokanee with me. We found them in depths of 50 to 100 feet. The fish were either deeply suspended or hugging the bottom We caught the f...
Posted: 3/21/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A big thanks to Phil Miller for coming out and fishing with me. We had a great time. The weather was sunny, cloudy, windy, calm, rainy, snowy, balmy... well, I guess it was March. We fished the fir...
Posted: 3/16/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Paul Peterson and Jack Tipping came over to fish on the nicest day of the year so far. It was lovely. Sunny and temps in the 60's. We found fish in the trench from 210 to 240 feet deep. Silver Hor...
Posted: 3/11/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was a "Chamber of Commerce" morning on Lake Chelan for the Koens family. The bite in the lower basin progressed steadily. Our bites mostly happened fishing within 5 feet of the bottom in water th...
Posted: 3/2/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was a "Chamber of Commerce" morning on Chelan. Working the flat below Wapato Point produced nice numbers, but no big fish. A number of fish pulled off the hooks and we had a bunch of tentative bi...
Posted: 1/22/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to take a stab at getting a big fish to freeze for the Puyallup Show so I asked good buddy Al Brooks to come out with me. We got out at the crack of 11:00AM. We trolled a Mack's Cha Cha Squ...
Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Cindy & Sean Clark brought out Chuck Taylor and Dave Kortendick to fish with me on Lake Chelan. To avoid the strong cross-lake breeze in the early morning we headed uplake by the Yacht Club. Althoug...
Posted: 1/1/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Franson gang shared their three generation Lake Chelan winter fishing trip with me. We worked the indeterminate flat in the lower basin as well as deep water above the Yacht Club to catch a nice ...
Posted: 12/15/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Tinnesand's went out fishing with Jeff on a blustery day. They caught fish off the shoulders of the Bar in depths of 150 to 200 feet deep trolling Mack's Cha Cha Squidders at 1.5 mph. The heater...
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Chris Branch fished with me above the Narrows on a beautiful Saturday morning. We worked a Cha Cha Squidder and an Ace Hi Fly close to the bottom in depths of 200 to 300 feet at speeds around 1.5 mph...
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My son-in-law, Mike and my neighbor Donn were nice enough to forego other activities to assist me in getting seven of our grandchildren out fishing on "Black Friday" at our local pond, Roses Lake. Th...
Posted: 8/23/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
John Manard took his old friend and avid angler CJ Williams out with us. John was along as an observer and CJ did all the angling. We had a very special early morning bite on all our lures. Mack's ...
Posted: 8/21/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we got thos "bigs" to bite in the morning after teasing the heck out them the previous evening! Lauren (10) got a 14lb 7oz and Steven (12) got a 12lb 10oz fish before the sun rose. We then pr...