Hit Chelan Saturday and was greeted by the wind. Rough ride out to deep water, started fishing just down lake from the yacht club. Trolled for about an hour with no luck so tried to run up the lake a ways. There were whitecaps everywhere, wind howling at a pretty good clip. I put the motor in neutral to see if we could go slow enough to troll but still clipped along at 2.5 to 3.5 mph. Ran back down the lake and started fishing on the north side trolling towards Wapato point.

Finally first fish at around 11:00, 100 feet down on a double-d dodger with a sockeye fly and hammered nickel Indiana blade. Worked that area for a while and came up with 6 fish, all down 100-130 feet on the wire. Trolling speed from 1.0 to 1.8 mph. Tipped spinners with homemade fire-cure corn and Berkley maggots. Bite died there so back across the lake and here comes the wind again making boat control nearly impossible. Picked up one more on accident and called it a day. Would have loved to have been able to run further up lake but mother nature said NO! Fish were in the 14 to 17" range, none of the big boys I was looking for.

Off to Roosevelt on Saturday, will let you know if I can find the kokes there, heard a rumor and must check it out.

ncwflounderer

3/31/2015 11:26:00 AM

14"-17" is where the size is. I have seen few pictures of larger fish this year, but not many.

Skaha

4/4/2015 7:33:00 PM

--is that surface water temp at trolling depth?
==that's warming up quick

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