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Title: Lake wenanchee sockeye
Post by: wackmaster on August 05, 2008, 08:38:42 PM: Opens tomarrow aug 6 ,2 fish limit selective rules no bait or scent and 3 barbless hook max
Title: Re: Lake wenanchee sockeye
Post by: CP on August 06, 2008, 09:47:10 AM: How's the quality of these fish? I'd like to try it but I hate to pull the boat over the pass for a couple of green slime rockets.
Title: Re: Lake wenanchee sockeye
Post by: Alchase on August 06, 2008, 12:43:42 PM: Prey for no wind, both times I tried to fish Wenachee with my boat we got blown off the lake.

We ended up going to Fish lake down the road and limiting.
Title: Re: Lake wenanchee sockeye
Post by: Fishhunt223 on August 06, 2008, 06:08:19 PM: Quote from: CP on August 06, 2008, 09:47:10 AM
How's the quality of these fish? I'd like to try it but I hate to pull the boat over the pass for a couple of green slime rockets.
Some are in decent shape and some are in really bad shape. They arent anything compared to the salmon caught on the west side. Earlier in the season is better but there are still some bad ones. Smokers make even the most worn out fish tast decent though.
Travis
Title: Re: Lake wenanchee sockeye
Post by: cohoho on August 06, 2008, 06:48:04 PM: Quote from: Fishhunt223 on August 06, 2008, 06:08:19 PM
Quote from: CP on August 06, 2008, 09:47:10 AM
How's the quality of these fish?
Some are in decent shape and some are in really bad shape.

Curious to what you mean bad shape, Spawned out Red??? Maroon? or still silver shade to them and just exterior battle wounds?
Title: Re: Lake wenanchee sockeye
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on August 06, 2008, 07:33:27 PM: They typically don't spawn until September. They are colored up, though. Keep in mind they've swam 500 miles in from the ocean.
Title: Re: Lake wenanchee sockeye
Post by: Fishhunt223 on August 06, 2008, 08:28:42 PM: Quote from: cohoho on August 06, 2008, 06:48:04 PM
Quote from: Fishhunt223 on August 06, 2008, 06:08:19 PM
Quote from: CP on August 06, 2008, 09:47:10 AM
How's the quality of these fish?
Some are in decent shape and some are in really bad shape.

Curious to what you mean bad shape, Spawned out Red??? Maroon? or still silver shade to them and just exterior battle wounds?
By the time fish get to the east side of the mountains, many of them have devoloped lots of scar tissue. They are colored but get darker and darker the longer they are there.
Travis
Title: Re: Lake wenanchee sockeye
Post by: cohoho on August 06, 2008, 08:49:53 PM: Like this? Hopefully not, cause the fish is falling apart literally.
Title: Re: Lake wenanchee sockeye
Post by: CP on August 07, 2008, 07:27:37 AM: That’s a pretty boot!