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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: blackpowderhunter on April 18, 2018, 10:22:51 AM

Title: keechelus lake kokanee
Post by: blackpowderhunter on April 18, 2018, 10:22:51 AM: anyone ever fish keechelus (stump) lake for kokanee? better come june time frame?
I figure its a helluva lot closer than chelan for a day trip.
Title: Re: keechelus lake kokanee
Post by: Alchase on April 18, 2018, 11:29:31 AM: Back in the late 90s I took my boys up to the bridge and caught a bunch of good looking Kokanee.
Around 2006, We tried to fish it in my 14 ft Smoker craft, and realized the lake is extremely shallow in most places, has a ton of milfoil or submerged vegetation and the wind down right sucks!
The combination made it useless to be trolling from a boat.
I did not try it again.
Title: Re: keechelus lake kokanee
Post by: blackpowderhunter on April 18, 2018, 11:35:14 AM: the wind thing makes a lot of sense..didnt know about how shallow it was.
might just drive the extra few miles to kachess, should be a little more protected from wind.
Title: Re: keechelus lake kokanee
Post by: Duckhunter14 on April 18, 2018, 11:41:04 AM: PM sent. X2 on the wind. Pretty impossible to fish when it rips across the lake. Which is often...