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By: TomD
Posted: 7/10/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
In Chelan for the week. Did some prospecting Sunday morning for a couple of hours. Had heard at Hooked on Toys that the kokes were up towards Wapato Point. I did hit my first two up there, but wasn...
By: TomD
Posted: 2/4/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took a solo trip to the San Juans on Saturday in my trusty Arima. Launched at Cornet Bay with no crowds or lines. Blasted West and fished in the south parts of Area 7. Only had one hit for the day,...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/7/2012
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Best Fishing Day on Chelan Ever - Part 2
Report on my trip on Sunday July 1st with comments on other days...
After limiting on kokanee, I thought I'd give lakers a quick try... didn't really ha...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/7/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Best Fishing Day on Chelan Ever - Part 1
We took our mostly annual sun and heat pilgrimage to Lake Chelan from June 29th to July 6th. I got out fishing a couple of times. Part One is kokanee for ...
By: TomD
Posted: 6/15/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Today I had an adventure. The primary goal was to check out some boat work I had done. The secondary goal was to explore Lake Roesiger and maybe catch some kokanee. Due to a work commitment and a n...
By: TomD
Posted: 4/24/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 2
After reading Rseas reports from Lake Stevens, I decided to go South to American Lake and explore. They are both about the same distance from home, just different directions.
Sorted through a bunc...
By: TomD
Posted: 10/11/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Shilshole and fished my way North by myself. Started for a bit out from the Oil Docks and only got a few shakers. Ran a Qcove breakaway Green Dragon flasher and a green Grand Slam buckta...
By: TomD
Posted: 9/6/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the San Juans with bro-in-law Tom and nephew Scott. Super long day, didn't get home until after 11pm. Launched at Cornet Bay, dropped crab pots on South Lopez (no keepers) and headed West of ...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the opener on Baker Lake and learned that I need to camp up there to get an early start. Lots of others have better reports than me, but I had a couple of pictures I wanted to pass on. I left Ki...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
On our last fishable day at Chelan, the girls wanted to catch more lakers, and Laura really wanted to get one. We started a little later and only focused on Macks. We tried the Bar, the Monument and...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After kokanee fishing we switched over to lake trout fishing for a bit to try for a big one. We fished Mack Bar for about an hour before going in for lunch and playing in the water. Megan caught a n...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took my daughter Megan and her friend Laura out fishing on Monday morning of our trip. We ran the four setups that I showed in my earlier report. Stacking poles on both sides was kind of a trip. We...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report (and following ones - didn't download cameras until tonight)
Fished for kokanee downlake from our condo this morning. It was overcast and cloudy, so I put on a Bloody Mar...
By: TomD
Posted: 11/8/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished by myself out of Everett on Saturday. I've been having motor troubles, so I slept in a bit so I wouldn't be in the mad rush of the Derby traffic if I had a problem. Decided to stay fairly clo...
By: TomD
Posted: 8/10/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Attempted to have a family trip to Baker Lake on Sunday. Of course, this meant leaving the house at around 11:45 rather than O'dark thirty. We stopped in Burlington to get licenses/punch cards for t...
By: TomD
Posted: 8/3/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to get the pictures out of the camera, but thought I should get the report out sooner...
This past weekend I rekindled my love/hate relationship with Westport. I love the fishing, the chanc...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/26/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today we had a grand adventure! My friend Peter and I decided, what the heck, rseas hasn't steered me wrong before, so let's go try Baker. I have always done extemely well on LW sockeye... Left Kir...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
So our relatives who are local wanted some fresh fish, and I suddenly had a good reason to target the lake trout! Yippee!
I started the day by myself at Mack Bar. Set up on a fish and dropped dow...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Monday was super windy... I didn't even try to go out... hardly any boats on the lake.
Tuesday started out pretty calm. Leaving Wapato Pt, I headed past Anton fishing on the Bar and started tryi...
By: TomD
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got out Sunday morning for some fishing time before the family got busy for the day. I am trying to focus on kokanee this year and maybe some of the smaller lakes. Wanting to head uplake, I started ...
By: TomD
Posted: 6/28/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I'm not sure if it was rseas or Quadfather who said it in an earlier report, but after finally getting up there, I think I agree that this is my new favorite lake, at least on the West side! It is a ...
By: TomD
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Halibut
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
TomS joined me, so we ran to Hein Bank to give it a try. Not quite so many trailers as Friday, but still had to park outside on the road. A bit bumpy getting out there, then the water/wind settled d...
By: TomD
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Halibut
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished by myself for halibut. Launched at John Wayne Marina and actually had to park about 1/4 mile from the marina as all parking was full. Lots of trucks/trailers on the road. First time I've eve...
By: TomD
Posted: 5/4/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
On Saturday I went out as "crew" for shrimp with my friend PeterD, his brother Anthony, dad George and neice Kaitlin. The launch at Everett was kind of a zoo, but went fairly rapidly. Due to that de...
By: TomD
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake Stevens again on Sunday. I got a little bit of a late start, so on the water around 8:00. I think people have been reading the reports, as there was quite a flotilla! I saw Tom Nelson b...