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By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Scouted around from Manson down lake, looking for smallmouth on the move. Caught a few here and there, nothing to win a prize with. But it was good to mark a few spots on the GPS for higher water an...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 2
John Arnott and his son Sam (9) were nice enough to come out with me for a few hours. Due to travel plans we did a mid day trip. The best of it was the potholes below the Bar and above the Trench. ...
Posted: 4/17/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a beautiful morning of fishing today here on Lake Chelan..
Started today off dropping into the Trench in the lower Basin and before I could get all rods out we hooked up on a dandy laketrout..10...
Posted: 4/15/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took Jim Chadwick of Issaquah and his buddy out. We snicked a fish off the Bar and kept moving. The indeterminate flat between the Bar and the Trench was the best of it for me today. Most fish came...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/11/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Roamed the lower basin looking for smallmouths. Water temp is 43, top to bottom out to 25 feet. Still too cold for the bass to be very active.
Posted: 4/10/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Boy what a great day and evening of fishing today.
I had 2 different Families out today.. My Morning group was Brian and Debbie Beavers from Montlake Terrace..We started trolling the edge of the tren...
Posted: 4/9/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the old U20 Luminous Chartreuse was the producer. Four of the six fish came off of one lure. Sometimes it's weird how all the fish lock in on particular lure. We put one decent fish in the bo...
Posted: 4/7/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We pounded away through the lower basin to get five lakers. It was nice that the big fish was caught by the little boy at the end of the day. Water from 210 to 245 was most productive. Luminous Cha...
Posted: 4/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our guide, Jeff Witkowski took a couple of guys out on Roses. A combination of trolling little F3 flatfish and still fishing doughbaits limited the 3 intrepid anglers. There was one tiger trout in a...
Posted: 4/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The same kind of situation as yesterday with the fishing except the weather was greatly improved. Stan had himself a great time yarding in some Lake Chelan Mackinaw out of the lower basin. Once agai...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/6/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Monday was a day of crazy spring weather. With it came typical bite swings. The early morning was biteless (is that a word?) as the low pressure front pounded Andy and the Gailey's of Orem, Ut with ...
Posted: 4/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today started off real slow in the lower basin but with the amount of Laketrout that I was seeing on the sonar I new that it was just a matter of time before the bite would pick up.
Trolled the Ace...
Posted: 4/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good morning and a very tough afternoon on Chelan. The Bar produced quality fish. The dips in the flat below the Bar produced the picture fish for the day. The venerable U20 Luminous Chart...
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Grandview H.S. braintrust came out to fish with Andy this morning on our North River. Andy pounded away with T-4 Flatfish in both Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow. He got a couple of big fish...
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2010
Hot Spots: 2
Pepe' Hernandez and Roger Sorenson used their last day off from running Blueberry Hills before Fall to come out and fish with me. I'm honored. We fished the Bar without success then pounded those ho...
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jody Bessert and Howard Pierce were nice enough to come fish with us. Our guide Andy worked the South Shore side of the Bar, the flat below the Bar and the lower basin to get them 11 lakers in the bo...
Posted: 3/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, alls well the ends well. We went an hour and 48 minutes without a bite to start the morning. Spencer and his buddies just hung in there and stayed positive. It was the polar opposite of yeste...
Posted: 3/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/25/2010
Hot Spots: 3
What a beautiful morning to fish. Mild temps and no wind. We started on the "Bar" before the sun was up. After two passes in about 90 minutes of wrork we had 4 fish including a 17.5 pound kicker. ...
Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bobby Loomis of Mack's Lures was nice enough to bring the guys from Wholesale Sports out for a beautiful afternoon fishing on Lake Chelan with me. We used some oversize Mack's Lures wedding rings bai...
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It continues to be work to get those Mackinaw to bite. We are fishing the Bar early then hitting the holes in the indeterminate flat between the Bar and Rocky Point. The trench produced some fish la...
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Chelan remains productive for Laketrout but it has been challlenging with the Pressure changes as we are rolling along into spring time.
I have been working the lower basin hard by dragging the ...
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Kayla Hutton was nice enough to bring her Dad, Dan and come fishing with me on her Spring Break. We had a promising start on the Bar, hitting three fish in 2 passes in depths of 115 to 135 feet deep....
By: Lundegard
Posted: 3/20/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
While some anglers are reporting there are kokanee around, and I would agree, they are certainly not aggressive and schooled up yet. At least not that we could find. We tried all our standard tactic...
Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Brady and Lanny Bumgarner came out for a mornings fishing with us. It wasn't as good a bite as yesterday, but it was OK. The upper shoulder of the Bar produced early then the trench produced a few f...
Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
You have heard the saying "Chicken one day Feathers the Next"
After yesterday of catching 22 to go to catching 5 today was a shocker to me. I had numerous bites but they were lite striking everything...