Lake Wenatchee Sockeye, Camping out Thursday Night, 8/7, All welcome

I will be leaving Seattle at lunchtime Thursday, hoping to fish Thursday Night and Friday morning.

Anyone is welcome. I booked a campsite at Lake Wenatchee State Park for Thursday Night.

See: http://wdfw.wa.gov/do/newreal/release.php?id=aug0508a

And: http://www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com/2008/sockeye-2008/

- Matt

Good luck, Matt!

I just noticed on the Fish passage site that over 163,000 sockeye have crossed Wells Dam, and that the fish counters are a week behind because of the #s. (They count from video tapes.)

No way I'll be able to make it over there, but just out of curiosity - how do you fish for them out of a kayak?  It sounds like they run pretty deep.  I know in Lake Washington they use bare hooks behind a dodger or flasher. 
Thanks, and good luck to those who go - hope we see some good reports and pictures!

No way I'll be able to make it over there, but just out of curiosity - how do you fish for them out of a kayak?  It sounds like they run pretty deep.  I know in Lake Washington they use bare hooks behind a dodger or flasher. 
Thanks, and good luck to those who go - hope we see some good reports and pictures!

Fish the same way as Lake WA.  Matt, like many of us, has a downrigger setup that will be perfect for this.

-Allen

Fishing looks hot: http://www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com/

1-1.5 hours for most boats to limit this morning!

Looks like some good fun matt. Thanks for the post.

Z

From the camp ground paddle to the far end of the lake and troll near the fish pens. you can also launch from that end on the Forest service camp grounds. Other wise its a long paddle to the far end. And if the wind picks up, and it will, it makes for a work out paddling back.

My girlfriend and I had a great pre-hiking fishing trip at Lake Wenatchee before the short season closed.

For some reason we found it harder than everyone else to catch the sockeye. They were being caught all around us in numbers better than we could do!

Things I can think of that would make it less likely for us to catch were: less "hardware", e.g. dodgers/flashers down there, and lower pound test leaders (20#) imparting less action to the red hooks... any advice?

Oh, but we still caught a couple.

Thanks a ton for the kayak loan, Allen, we got a salmon on it on its very first trip in the water. That counts for something!

- Matt

PS. Floatin, thanks for the advice. On the first night we learned what you told us the hard long way 

Nice Feesh! Too bad it wasn't light out fishing but no skunk so good deal. So'd you cook it up that night? How was it?

Z