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Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow Flatfish in T4 and U20 scored for Andy today. He pounded fish early on the Bar then finished off Sunnybank for a very nice morning. The Ford gang had a great time...
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Little F7 Purple Glow Flatfish on the outrigger rod produced a couple of 10 pounders. The Shannon family of Chelan caught 5 other fish on a glorious Chelan summer morning. We also caught fish on T4 ...
Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The current was ripping so hard at Wells, the guys didn't think it was safe to fish it. So they put in at Brewster and ran up to the mouth of the Okanogan. Jeff, Al and Andy got 6 sockeye in about 2...
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy worked hard for his fish today. He picked up fish on the Bar, in the Flat, up at the Yacht Club and in the trench. But it was tough sledding. The "day maker" was a 19 pounder taken just off of...
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, Mack Bar let me down today, but the indeterminate flat between the Bar and the trench was very productive. Depths of 180 to 225 produced best. A couple of fish came out of the trench. While s...
Posted: 7/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow Flatfish in T4 and F7 were the ticket today. We started a bit later than usual (at 6:30 instead of 5:30), but it didn't matter. We got 3 fish on the first pass on...
Posted: 7/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a wind blown morn'. Lost a couple on the Bar and picked up one nice fish. Retreated to the nursery to get blown in 3 separate directions in the space of 20 minutes. Picked up 5 little nurser...
Posted: 7/11/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Woo Hoo! The sockeye are in. Guides Jeff and Andy whacked 'em and stacked 'em today below Wells Dam. Fishing Shrimp behind a dodger was the ticket as they pounded the huge concentration of Sockeye ...
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again Jeff nailed 'em for his guy on Grimes. He caught and released 34 Lahontan Cutthroat. The big fish was about 25 inches and just over 5 pounds. What a great quality fishery. Chronomids an...
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bare Red hooks behind a dodger got us some sockeye. Did not get bit by Chinook yet. The Sockeye are pretty nice fish and give a good accounting of themselves on light gear. Fish the Douglas County ...
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those Purple Glow T4 Flatfish were very effective early on the Bar. All six fish came early including a very nice 13 pounder, then it shut off while we tried Sunnybank and off the tip of Wapato Point...
Posted: 7/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing F7 Flatfish on the outriggers and T4 Flatfish on the downriggers produced nicely this morning. Four fish in the first 45 minutes then grunting them out one at a time. The Bar worked well for...
Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Those T4 purple glow flatfish on the outriggers were really productive for Andy today on the Bar. He decided to just stick it out for the 4 hour trip by staying on the Bar. Boy, did it pay off!. Th...
Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy had the same struggles I did this morning. The Bar yielded 2 fish, the Yacht Club a fish. He decided to go hit the nursery to get the younger kids some additional action, and off the went. Tha...
Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Mack Bar early. We picked up a fish each on the first 2 passes and had one pull off. I then picked up and moved to the Yacht Club, but it was tougher. We did have one really good pass where we ...
Posted: 7/3/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Yacht Club wasn't as productive today so I took the little kids to the nursery to get some fast action. It worked out great. They got to reel in a lot of fish and at the end of the day it was go...
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we just worked an evening trip in reverse of the last couple of morning trips. We started up at the Yacht Club. The fish that bit were all in the 160's depth wise. Then we pulled up and moved...
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was another great morning on Chelan. Numbers pretty good, but the excitement of catching double digit landlocked fish is what's made it special the last couple of days. We opened up early on the ...
Posted: 6/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy took Kevin Abel with his and the Kohler kids for a morning of fishing. They pounded the Bar and Minneapolis with flatfish at 1.5mph in depths of 125 to 180 feet deep. The kids had a grand time ...
Posted: 6/29/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sandy and I went for a businessman's holiday to Grimes Lake for some Lahontan Cutthroat trout smackdown with our Grimes guide extraordinaire, Jeff Witkowski. We fished about 4 hours and caught 11 Cut...
Posted: 6/29/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was nice to get back on the water after cruising Alaska for Sandy's retirement celebration. I'll get some backdated reports to show everyone how Andy did while I was gone. It was nice for t...
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy was really challenged by the wind today as a cold low pressure front moved through and really created a lockjaw situation. Hammering away with an assortment of flatfish and baited Ace Hi Flies n...
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy had a nice early run on the Bar before moving over to Minneapolis and a finishing pass up the Trench to get a nice pile of fish for fishing buddies Gary Morrison and Dennis Johnson. He pounded a...
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was another beautiful day in Paradise. We pounded the Bar early, then trolled over to Minneapolis then down and up the trench for a morning trip. Mike Strehlow was nice enough to bring his ...
Posted: 6/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pounding away with Flatfish in the T4 and F7 sizes in Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow produced nicely. We only plunked one fish off my 2 passes on the Bar. We picked up 2 more fish on a long loo...