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By: stanford
Posted: 8/10/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/10/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Fish everywhere beautiful fish limited both days. Go up there quick!!!
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: 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: 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...
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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Anonymous
Posted: 8/11/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Sockeye fishery at LK Wenatchee the fishing was red hot! Had limit within first 40 mins. 40-60 ft on riggers in 150ft of water seemed to be the ticket. Standard lake Washington gear dodger a...
By: Honkster
Posted: 8/13/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Sockeye bite on Friday morning from 6-10am. Boated 6 Sockeye in the 4-6lb range and lost a handful more. Watching the girls 'reel em in' was the best part. I have heard that the bite has...
By: Teanaway Hermit
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was recently camping up by lake wenatchee. I decided to stop by the boat launch at the state park to see if anyone was out fishing. A few guys had just got in off the lake. They told me they had hoo...
By: 1cast
Posted: 8/20/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 4pm. The waves were rolling in and we were in for a rough ride to get to the other end. After a rough ride we got to the west end and started fishing. Only 2 other boats there, o...
By: Roosterpie
Posted: 8/14/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Got over to Lake Wenatchee early, but not early enough I guess. Waited in line for quite a while, but it was worth it. The fishing was great with constant action. Hopefully the quota isn't reached by ...
By: afk
Posted: 8/17/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2012
Hot Spots: 2
I was a guest on my friend Ricks boat. We boated 7 fish for the three of us. We started at day break and fished untill 11:30. I think we would have been able to limit but, work schedules took priorit...
By: Roosterpie
Posted: 8/17/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day at Wenatchee. Water has warmed a bit. Found 3/0 red hooks with a pink squid worked well. Lost a lot less fish with the bigger hooks. Not quite as many on as my last trip out. Glad I ...
By: blurock
Posted: 8/21/2012
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/19/2012
Hot Spots: 2
We were going to hit the salt for the last day of Chinook retention, but figured the salt is a little hit or miss, dad hates taking his boat in the salt (because of the negative effects of the salt on...
By: Bryce
Posted: 7/24/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first time ever on Lake Wenatchee so I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I had a pretty good idea how to catch a sockeye from my time on Baker Lake but I figured I needed to change things ...
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...
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: 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...
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...
