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Friday, January 29, 2016
 
By Dave Graybill
 
I had a great day of fishing for mackinaw on Lake Chelan with Jeff Witkowski of Darrel and Dads Family Guide Service. We picked a great day. It was flat calm on the lake and Jeff got a hit before he could even clip the second rod to a rigger. He was fishing with his own concoction of Macks Lure components, baited with a chunk of pike minnow meat. This is the same rig he was using when he landed a lake trout of over 26 pounds a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to try some spinners I made up out of blades from the folks at Dutch Fork Custom Lures, and Jeff was willing to let me try them in the afternoon, while he fished with his favorite set up. We fished in the lower basin in water that was 150 to 240 feet deep. He liked to keep his speed around 1 mph. I got to reel in the fish, and did so with ten nice lakers, that ranged in size from 3 to 6 pounds. At the very end of the day, after getting a few light bites on my spinner rig, Jeff hooked what turned out to be the biggest fish of the day. I was very impressed with Jeff’s ability to find and land lakers on Chelan, and the quality of the fish was amazing.