Pictured: 8/23/10 Conner Fochesato (11) of Arlington, WA with a 12 pound early morning Laker. He was fishing with his Dad, Peter. Conner reported that it was the best fishing day he ever had! Way to go Andy! 8/26/10 Evie and Ed Martin of Grants Pass, OR with their morning’s catch of Lake Chelan Mackinaw. Another beautiful day in paradise.
Pictured: 8/17/10 - The Guckenheimer gang from Kirkland with a nice mess of Chelan Lakers.
8/21/10 Jim Anderson of Kenmore, WA with a 24# Upper Columbia King.
Once again the webmaster missed uploading some photos. Sorry, guys. Pictured: 6/8/10 - Harlan Mayer and his brother-in-law with a nice bunch of Mackinaws. As Harlan put it, "These pictures bring back how much fun we had."
Pictured: 8/9/10 Bill Mitchell with his sons Joshua (10) and Matthew (8) of Estacada, OR with their pile of Lake Chelan Mackinaw. 8/10/10 Albert Aboulafia of Owings Mills, MD with a 14.5 pound Lake Chelan Mackinaw. He was fishing with his daughters Arielle (14) and Alanna (12) and his sister.
8/5/10 Dave Mitchell of Everett with Dave Kronbach of Seattle and Jaime Abarca the deckhand for the day with their catch of Sockeye and a Chinook. 8/5/10 Dave Clifford of Idaho with a nice Omak Lahontan. He was fishing with his brother, Ron. 8/3/10 The Hefty gang of West Linn, OR with their pile of Lake Chelan Mackinaw. Bob, sons Colton (13), Taylor (15) and John Gack
8/1/10 - The Slothower and Harrell families took a break from their family reunion to go fishing with Anton.
Molly Slothower (14) got the big fish - 8 pounds and 12 ounces.
7/30/10 - The Castor family from Edgewood, Washington with their 8 Macks and
the Ansary family, all the way from Afghanistan with their 4 Macks.
7/30/10 - Dale and Hunter Payne of Gig Harbor. We really wacked the Macks off the face of Mack Bar in the 2nd half of our evening trip on the 30th. This was Hunter's best fishing ever.
7/30/10 - Once again the tandem team of Andy and Jeff socked it to the Sockeye off the mouth of the Okanogan River. The Burke crew from Oroville picked up 13 sockeye, but had numerous fish bite but fail to find their way into the net.
7/27/10 - Eric Nissen of Selah with his 2 Brewster Pool Chinook. He fished with Wes Gano of Selah.
7/29/10 - The Follette crew came all the way from Singapore to enjoy and evening of fishing and a spectacular sunset.
7/28/10 - Andy Byrd, one of our guides took out Mike Byrd and Steve George with a friend for some Sockeye fishing. Our deckhand Jaime is showing three of the fish in one shot and helping the guys hold up their string of TWENTY Sockeyes in the other shot.
7/28/10 - The Howland Clan on a half-day trip: Grandpa Morris of Bellevue, Washington and his daughter and son-in-law Mark and Teresa Woodall with their three kids Ashleigh, Katie and Billy of Carrolton, Texas.
7/23/10 - The Zimmermans of Tumwater, WA with writer Rob Phillips of Yakima with their sockeye limits. 7/23/10 - Rob Oberto of Bothell, WA and Russ Santoro of Medway, MA with their mornings catch of Lake Chelan Lake Trout. 7/27/10 - the Tangborns with some nice Chinook from the mouth of the Okanogan.
Pictured: 7-17-10 The Steinhauer and Naylor reunion ate well on these fish. Lee said that they fed 100 people that night with fresh trout!
Pictured: 7-20-10 Anton went out this morning with his neighbors on Wapato Lake for some Rainbows. Found them suspended. Broken back blue over white Rapalas did the trick. Pepe', Donn and Anton had a great time. Then Anton got home ate lunch and granddaughter McKinley said it was time to go fishing, so off to the nursery we went. It was a nice couple hours of fishing. McKinley has a great smile.
Pictured: 7-19-10 Andy worked the area below Wells dam today for Sockeye. He boated 8 and had a lot of fish shake off just shy of the net.
Pictured: 7-19-10 Jeff worked hard to produce Sockeye on the Columbia Sunday. Not a banner day, but effort pays off. Way to go Jeff!
Pictured: 6-8-10 Harlan (Lanny) Mayer and friend. Sorry I missed those earlier (Noella, webmaster.)
Pictured: 7/16/10 Chuck Hammond of Manson with Ed Rauvola of Chelan with their limits of Columbia River Sockeye. 7/18/10 The Noel group of Algona with their pile of Lake Chelan Mackinaw.
Pictured: 7-14-10, our guide Al Brooks with a beautiful Sockeye caught near Brewster at the mouth of the Okanogan and our guide Andy Byrd with his fishing companion Jeff and another gorgeous Sockeye.
Pictured: 7-13-10 The Christian family from Kelowna, BC. Randy and his son's Kaeden (16) as well as Gage (11).
Smallest fish was 4.5. The biggest was about 8.75 lb.
Pictured: 7-11-10 Jeff Witkowski and our guide Andy Byrd with 2 guy limits of Sockeye caught just below Wells Dam on 7/11/10.
These are all 3 to 6 pound Sockeye.
Pictured: 7-5-10 John Somers with son Nathan (17) of Seattle with their morning’s catch of Lake Chelan Mackinaw. 7-8-10 Rabbi Will Berkowitz of Seattle with a nice Grimes Lake Lahontan. It was one of 34 that he caught and released with our Grimes guide, Jeff Witkowski. 7-10-10 Andy Byrd of Manson with a typical Upper Columbia Sockeye.
Pictured: 6-28-10 Sandy Jones (Aka: Mom) with a nice Grimes Lahontan. Our Grimes Guide, Jeff Witkowski was nice enough to treat us to a day of fishing. 6-29-10 Fran Grace of California caught this big fish (17lb 9oz)up at the Yacht Club. An hour later she got another monster, a 16.5lb fish. She was nice enough to bring her husband, Tommy along to watch her catch fish...
Pictured: 6/18/10 - Jake Kohler (10), Joe Kohler (12) and Scott Abel (10) of Chelan with their morning’s catch of Mackinaw. They were fishing with their Dad's, Bob Kohler and Kevin Abel. 6/21/10 - Gregg and Kyle (14) Wallinder of Seattle with Pete and Brady (14) Dixon of Lake Forest Park and their morning’s catch of Lakers.
Pictured: 6-8-10 - Caleb Bates with a 12.5 pound Lake Chelan Mackinaw caught right at dusk on the Bar. He did an evening trip with his family. 6-9-10 - Moran of Manson with a 12.2 pound Lake Chelan Landlocked Chinook. She fished with her husband. 6-12-10 - Rollin Caryl of Yakima with a 14.2 pound early morning Laker that was caught on the Bar. He fished with Son-in-Law Milt Ewing of Portland.
Pictured: 6/6/10 Albert Duell with a 13 lb 10 ounce Lake Chelan Mackinaw. 6/2/10 Kimberly Panasci of Ridgefield, CA with a 7 Pound Omak Lake Lahontan Cutthroat. 6/3/10 - Daniel and Matt Briggs of Vancouver, WA with their pile of Lake Chelan Mackinaw.
5-29-10 Loretta Duke of Manson and brother Tim of Utah took a break from a family celebration to come fish with me. I was honored. 5-30-10 Tyler Hoff and Jacob Thompson of Snohomish with a 9.2 pound Lake Chelan Landlocked Chinook that they teamed up on. They were fishing with parents Tonya and Michael as well as little brother Joey. This went with their 10 Mackinaw.
Pictured: 5/20/10 Bruce Adiar and kids with their pile of Lake Chelan Mackinaw.
5/24/10 - Dick Rogers of El Dorado Hills, CA with a nice Omak Lahontan.
Pictured: 5-13-10 Jen Stennes of Pateros with an evening caught 14.5 pound Lake Chelan Mackinaw. 5-13-10 Ken Sedy of Arlington, WA; Allen Zurlo of Marysville, WA and Keith Stennes of Pateros with a pile of Rufus Woods Triploid Rainbows.
5-7-10 Pictured: Gini and Marvin Grillo of Oroville with their catch of Lake Chelan Mackinaw. Their kids gave Gini the trip
as her 29th birthday present. 5-3-10 Guy Byrd of Spokane with a typical Omak Lahontan.
4/25/10 The Herald Gang with their mornings catch of Lake Chelan Mackinaw.
Pictured: 4/24/10 - Greg Lyons of Wenatchee with the guys from Stemelt. A thank you goes out to the Washington Apple Education Foundation. 4/23/10 - The Barngrover Kids of Renton with a couple of Rufus Rainbows.
Pictured: 4-12-10 The Palmer crew of Lynnwood with their five guy limit of Rufus Triploids. 4-17-10 Sam Arnott (9) with father John of Mill Creek and their morning’s catch of Mackinaw.
Pictured: 4/7/10 Marcus Bussey (9) of Olympia with a 7 pound Lake Chelan Mackinaw. He was fishing with Rob Martin and Gordon Lueck. 4/11/10 Mike Diefenbach of Ellensburg with our Andy Byrd and our 3 guy limit of Rufus Woods Triploids. 4/9/10 - Our Andy Byrd with a feisty 19" Roses lake holdover rainbow posing with a picture before his release.
Pictured: 4/7/10 - The Amundson family with a nice string of Lake Trout and Sawyer with one nice fish.
Pictured: 4/7/10 - One of our guides, Andy Byrd with a beautiful Rufus Woods Triploid. Three generations fishing - Gordon Lueck, Rob Martin and Marcus Bussey, Jr. and Marcus with a nice 7 pound Chelan Lake Trout.
Pictured: 3/31/10 - Jon Hildahl of Spokane with a nice 13.5 pound Lake Chelan Mackinaw. Corrie Martin and son Devon Keshishian (11) of Edmonds, WA with their limits of Roses’ Rainbows.
Pictured from Omak Lake: 4-1-10 - Anton, who is our driving force, doing a job he loves
and Kadin Stennes with another Omak Cutthroat.
Pictured: 3-25-10: Justin Cope (12) of Oregon with his 17.5 pound trophy Lake Chelan Mackinaw. It was one of 9 fish Erwin Bronsch of Quincy and he caught during their morning trip. 3-26-10: Spencer Chriest of Mill Creek with his fishing buddies Hubie Dolan of Seattle and Donovan Jones of Kirkland with their morning's catch. 3-24-10 - Jay Simpson of Brewster with a nice Upper Columbia Steelhead.
Pictured: 3/14/10 Connor Ryan (4) of Wenatchee with Papa and a 12" Roses Rainbow. 3/20/10 Rex Rogers of Moses Lake with his son and 2 grandkids. Danny, Makayla and Trevor Rogers, also of Moses Lake with their days catch of Lake Chelan Mackinaw.
Pictured: 3/11/10 - Al Brooks of Manson with a limit of Roses Trout. That is a nice Tiger Trout in the center. 3/11/10 - Mark and Kevin Stennes of Pateros with Tom Pitts of Okanogan, John Sylvester and Derek Barroca of Tonasket with a bunch of Upper Columbia Steelhead. Finally Pictured: 3/13/10 Victor Doperalski of the Lake Washington chapter of Puget Sound Anglers with his son David and their day's catch of Lake Chelan Mackinaw.
Pictured: 3/3/10 Guide Andy Byrd of Manson with a limit of Roses Trout. There are 3 Tigers and a couple of Rainbows in the mix. 3/5/10 Jeff Witkowski of Big Dog and Chelan with a 2 pound tagged Rufus Triploid. 3/6/10 Mike Hodge of East Wenatchee with a nice upper Columbia metalhead. 3/7/10 Steve and Valerie Mapua of Kent with James Murray and Jeffrey Tropianilo of Covington with their Lake Chelan Macks.
A week of fishing with our guide Andy Byrd -- Pictured: 2/11/10 The LaCroix's from Kirkland, 2/12/10 The Bunch crew from Western Washington, 2/13/10 the Delyanis Crew from University Place, 2/14/10 PM the Yunin crew from Spokane, 2/15/10 The Nelson's from North Bend,
2/16/10 Nathan Miller from Ft. Lewis with their fish.
2-18-10 Jane Talerico-Brown of Seattle with a 15 pound 8 ounce deepwater Lake Chelan Mackinaw.
2-21-10 Timothy Hennessey of Spanaway with Patrick Hennessey and Patrick Jr. (15) of Lake Bay with their catch of Lakers.
Here is Anton's week. It was quite the dream come true.
2-2-10 The Park's from Kennewick are the first 3. Maxine only wanted a half day so we took an hour off to drop her and return to the fishing area. It was quite a half day with a 13.5 and a 14.6. After the picture, Dennis caught 3 more.
2-3-10 LCSA Raffle winner Ron Clifford of Camano Island with brother Dave Clifford of Ahsahka, ID came out for a full day. They caught 2 twelve pound lakers among their 16 fish. 15 are in the group shot.
2-5&6-10 Rich Elliott (Kirkland)and Jay Bomgardner (Clyde Hill) are repeat customers. fishing buddies and members of the Puget Sound Anglers group. They brought friend and fishing buddy Eddie Jensen (Bothell) with them for 2 nights stay in the Hideaway. They fished a full day on the 5th catching 11 lakers including a 9lb 13oz/ a 15lb 9 ounce and a 17lb 5 ounce fish. On the 6th they spent a half day to catch 6. They included an 11lb 12oz fish, a 13lb 13oz fish and a 20lb 11 oz sea monster.
2-7-10 Kirk Stevens of Bothell and brother Mark Stevens of Yosemite N.P. came out for a half day on Super Bowl Sunday. They caught 6 lakers including a 10lb 3 oz. fish.
Pictured: 2/6/10 - Jay Bomgardner of Clyde Hill with long time buddy and fellow Puget Sound Angler member Rich Elliott of Kirkland with the big fish of the year so far. A twenty pound eleven ounce deepwater Laker. 2/6/10 - Jacqueline SwinDell of Wenatchee with two hatchery steelhead from the Upper Columbia. 2/3/10 - Lake Chelan Sportsman's Association Dream Fisherman Raffle winner Ron Clifford of Camano Island with brother Dave of Ahsahka, Id and deckhand for the day, guide Jeff Witkowski of Chelan with 15 of their 16 Lakers that include two twelve pounders.
Pictured: 1/25/10 Jim Lee of Sedro Wooley with a typical Lake Chelan Mackinaw. 1/30/10 Kevin Stennes of Pateros with a Jig and Bobber Steelhead from below Wells Dam on the Columbia River.
Pictured: 1-23-10 McKinley Widman (8) of Wenatchee demonstrating best driving techniques to her grandfather...1-25-10 Dave "The Fishing Magician" Graybill with deckhand for the day, Mark Stennes of Pateros with most Dave and Eileen Graybill's catch of Lake Chelan Mackinaw.
On 1/2/10, David Child, his father and son went fishing with Anton. While they were fishing, David took some video and has uploaded it to YouTube. Check this out:
As Anton has been at the Tri-Cities Sportsman's Shows, we are showing a couple of his favorites from the Late Winter deepwater trophy Lakers from past trips. We will have fresh photos in next week's report. Pictured: 3/12/07 Dad (Anton) himself with a 23 pound deepwater Mackinaw. 1/21/08 Jeanette Byrd of Spokane with another 20 pound deepwater Laker from up there above the Yacht Club.
Pictured: 1-3-10 - Chris Andersen of Seattle, Travis Deggeller (12); Wade Deggeller (16) and Marty Deggeller all from Conconully with their haul of Lake Chelan Mackinaw. There are a good handful of 8 and 9 pound fish in this batch! 1/11/10 - Dwight and Tim from Bellevue with one of the 15 Steelhead they got into with Guide Jerrod Riggins on the upper Columbia.
We started the new year of 2010 in a BIG way!! How about a couple BIG Lake Trout or a nice string of fish? Either way, it is a fantastic way to start the year. Pictured: 1-2-10: Ardean Child of Texas with son and Yakima River guide David Child and grandson Dean Child (8) of Yakima with their catch of Lake Chelan lower basin Mack's.
1-2-10: Our guide Andy Byrd of Manson with a pair of 16 pounders caught above the Narrows.
And if you would like to look at previous years' photo galleries, click on one of the links below.
