Hunting Washington Forum
Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: h2ofowlr on August 07, 2014, 09:44:37 PM
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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.
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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.
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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 :dunno:
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Try the Macks Cha Cha squidder with some fire corn behind a size 0 or 00 dodger. Let us know how you do!
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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 (http://www.darrellanddads.com/fishreport.html)
