Great opening to the sockeye season this morning. Photos below.
Fish were caught at depths between 40 and 70 feet on red hooks and red hooks+pink houchies. If you know of other strategies send email to admin@lakewenatcheeinfo.com and we will update.
Fish and Game are patrolling the lake and handing out tickets, make sure you have all your safety gear and that you fish according to the regulations. In particular make sure you release easy fish with a hole punch in their tail. A neighbor missed seeing the hole, received a ticket and had to hand over the fish… Don’t land Bull trout, release in the water.
Tom Baranouskas and guest celebrate their limit at 8:32, with Rollie guiding. Tom bought the ride and guide at the Fire district #9 benefit last Sat.
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Where did you fillet or clean your catch?
So I have a question, hopefully someone will have an answer for it, maybe Rollie. This year’s sockeye season… they said they needed 23,000 fish.. plus a surplus of 4,000 fish to open a season. But they opened it before they had even gotten the minimum requirement??? Now, due to some weird die off or something… when I just checked the Tumwater dam count, only 15,000+ fish had crossed the dam total this year, when they estimated that 30,000 would make the trip. They estimate that about 2,000+ salmon were caught during the season… so that means only about 13,000 fish really made it back to spawn this year. Is it just me, or is this a royal mess up? Shouldn’t someone be losing his/her job over opening the season before making sure the season had enough fish etc? It seems like we could all be in for a rude awakening 4 years from now, when there isn’t a season because not enough fish spawned. Anyone?
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