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By: JoshH
Posted: 7/30/2023
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2023
Hot Spots: 1
Met 2 other friends for kayak Lake Wenatchee sockeye fishing. Windy day made for difficult kayak fishing. Landed my 4 fish limit using Elgin Fishing Gods Tooth Spoons in pink with a double 1/0 hook se...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 8/9/2022
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/4/2022
Hot Spots: 3
This is a two day report for Thursday and Friday (4th and 5th of Aug.). Guitarfish and I grabbed a campsite for a couple days chasing sockeye around the lake.
Thursday the launch was not too bad sin...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 8/4/2021
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/4/2021
Hot Spots: 0
First time fishing Lake Wenatchee Sockeye and it didn't disappoint. Dropped my downrigger to 60' and used a dropper on the other rod. As soon as I got the second rod deployed it went off and I landed ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/13/2020
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This year we’ve gotten a sockeye season on both Lake Wenatchee and Brewster. Today I got to fish with Shane Moon of Moon’s Guide Service on Lake Wenatchee.
We met at 4:30am and I was surprised to ...
By: epatton
Posted: 7/29/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/28/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Hiked up to beautiful lake Minotaur but not only did I get skunked, but the mosquitoes ate me alive. I've got at least 50 bites on my hands even though they were covered with deet. I tried black and g...
By: afk
Posted: 7/15/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the last day for Summer Chinook. Only one hit but, it stuck! Almost got more than we were looking for when this Osprey tried for my buddies gear!
By: Protographer
Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First time to the lake other than a scouting trip. Although the fish seem to be bitey still, they are well past their prime (only one of the 4 I put in the box would smoke well, the others will taste ...
By: FishingTenor
Posted: 8/21/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I was excited to try out yet another fishery, and Lake Wenatchee had been on my radar for a while. However I was conflicted, because it was my lovely Janet’s birthday weekend too. Fortunately, she ag...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/17/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2016
Hot Spots: 1
One last Hurrah! I got to take my son Matt and DIL Veronica fishing for sockeye on Lake Wenatchee. They were visiting from Montana and didn’t balk at the 3am wake up call so we hit the road. We arrive...
By: hookset'n
Posted: 8/10/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
In line early as usual and it was obvious rolling up it was going to be windy (again!) Sunday. Quick hello to Randy (rseas) and his wife, wave to Mr. Carey and we were off to motor up lake in the dar...
By: kokanee1
Posted: 8/9/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Okay as Mike Carey says the wind has been brutal on Wenatchee. How ever we have had an amazing season there. This report is for Aug 7-9. I had my brother and his wife along with me each day. Sunday w...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/9/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/8/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I feel so rummy…
I just returned from a three day weekend of fishing Lake Wenatchee in tough fishing conditions. The wind was howling on Saturday, and then REALLY howling on Sunday, then Monday in ...
By: salmonkiller
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wednesday it was very windy and difficult to catch fish.
Thursday we had one of those days you want to forget.. Everyone around us was hooking up, we ended up with 1 fish and lost 3.
Friday we w...
By: iwnt2retire
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
A windy start to 3 days of fishing. Had to put trolling motor in reverse to go slow enough. Managed to hook 3 fish and land two before I got blown off the lake. Thursday was calm all day. Friday the s...
Posted: 8/6/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Today started with that great Lake Wenatchee Wind. The weather man should be fired!! It made fishing interesting! I fished with Rex and a buddy. He ended up with the free trip from last weeks drawing...
By: Roosterpie
Posted: 8/6/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/2/2016
Hot Spots: 1
On the water at a few minutes to 5. Wind was really blowing. Across the lake and lines in the water by 5. Figured once the sun came up good the wind might stop. Well that didn't happen. Several fish p...
By: rmrauscher
Posted: 8/3/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great first trip to Lake Wenatchee. Weather on Monday was fantastic. Arrived at the boat launch at 4am and only had to wait an hour. I dont recall ever seeing that many boats in such a small spa...
By: iwnt2retire
Posted: 7/31/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I feel Blessed to live in Washington and have the health and time to go fishing. Yes it gets crowded and fishing is very limited this year. I got there opening day at dawn. I must give a big Thank You...
By: El mojarras
Posted: 7/30/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Que pasa amigos 7/23 what a day at lake wenatchee me and my friends had a great time fishing we decided to arrive at 2:30 am at the boat launch because is really difficult to find a open spot ...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 7/30/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers July 22 thru July 28. As I seem to say every year when I leave Lake Wenatchee "I'm done I will never be back" but for some reason every time I hear they are opening the Sockeye seas...
Posted: 7/29/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Lake Wenatchee has been producing some very nice sockeye. They are big and in good shape this year. This is a great fishery for kids. The bight has been starting a little after 5am and going until 830...
By: kokanee1
Posted: 7/28/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Actual report is from the opener thru 7/27 with a couple days off in there. The lake has been very busy with long launch lines even at 3:45 am. Fished 6 days with several different people fishing with...
By: afk
Posted: 7/27/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I hit the launch line at 04:30. 20 minutes and we were in the water. Parked way out yonder and hiked back. There were about ten rigs waiting now. We rigged our poles and set out to gett'em. We ran a v...
Posted: 7/25/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/25/2016
Hot Spots: 3
This report is From two trips on Lake Wenatchee. July 22 and 25th. Both days we caught fish from 40' to 60' down on riggers. We have been trolling 0.8 to 1.0 MPH. Speed has been one of our most import...
By: walleyes
Posted: 7/25/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Struggled all day long. Fought the wind which really made trolling hard and the 1.5 hour line at the boat launch just added to the days frustrations. I threw everything I had from bare hooks, flies, h...