Lake Chelan

[h2ofowlr]

I am going to head over to Lake Chelan in a few weeks and wanted to try fishing it.  Sounds like Kokanee are one of the fish people are catching currently.  I was wondering if anyone might have some tech tips on how to catch them.  I have fished for them on Lake Merwin, Baker Lake and Lake Shannon, but never used down riggers for them like they do on Chelan.  I used to use small fenders followed up a wedding ring with white corn.  Not sure what the ticket might be at Chelan.  Any help would be appreciated.

[Badhabit]

Go to Salmon University and go to fishing reports and scroll down to "Lake Chelan" they are saying the Macs are hot in deep water. So you'll need a downrigger with lots of cable. 300' min.

[Romulus1297]

In about 5 weeks they will be spawning in the Stehekin River, Company Creek and 1st Creek. A lot of orange fish then along with the fish bears eating them

[C-Money]

Try the Macks Cha Cha squidder with some fire corn behind a size 0 or 00 dodger. Let us know how you do!

[Stein]

Find the Darrell & Dads charter and do what he does.  Guy catches a ton of fish and is really nice.  He made a presentation that I bought a hard copy of at a Sportsman's Show a few years back and he gives all the details of the lake trout fishery, but I don't remember if he talked about Koke's or not.

Looks like he posts pretty informative reports:

http://www.darrellanddads.com/fishreport.html