bacota
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Hit Lake Chelan last week for our annual family vaca to Wapato Point. Fished smallies all week from 6-9 (am and pm). Caught a bunch of small ones like this one my cousin got...couldn't seem to find anything with size. Beatiful place and lake...I kinda regret not going for any lakers.
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Oct. is a good month for bigger fish. I'm supposed to be there for a week sharing a buddies time share.
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bacota
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Hmmm, sounds like a good enough reason to try and make it out there in October then. I did some snorkeling all around the point, and I did see a couple in the 1.5 to 2 pound range.
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I'm heading that way for some R&R. What was the technique? I'm not used to fishing such clear water for bass, and tips?
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bacota
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We were mostly dropshotting in about 30 feet of water. Try and find the edges of weedlines (which for the most part you can see because the water's so clear). Purple creature or craw patterns seemed to be the best. Also, really early in the morning we were hitting fish on x-raps (chrome pattern).
There's an old house that looks condemned with a falling apart dock just north of Chelan (I'd guess a mile, maybe) sitting all by itself on the Manson side. Each day we consistently hit a few fish in 25 ft of water in front of it. Make sure you are out early or late, the bite seemed to die after 9 or 10 in the morning and didn't pick up until late in the evening.
Good luck!
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Lots of smallies just East of Wapato point (towards the town of Chelan)...look for the big rock wall (can't miss it)and fish it and the next inlet down. I usually cast M7 Rapalas towards shore in a perch design and have good luck...you also get a bunch of shakers and squaw fish too but smallies in 2 to 3 lbs are
not uncommon.
Those Macs (lakers) you see being caught are not very good eating but pretty easy to catch with downriggers mornings and evenings.
Edited by rlbry (08/24/07 10:11 AM)
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