Lake Wenatchee sockeye fishing almost too fast

SALMON FISHING — A note from one of my blog readers indicates the sockeye fishing has been great at Lake Wenatchee.

Thank you for your article on the Lake Wenatchee Sockeye Opener last week.

I took my 87 year old uncle out on Saturday, and we limited by 6:45am.

It was so good, I took my sister and her two kids out on Sunday, and we limited by 7:45am.

The funny thing was, we live in the Everett area, so we drove almost 2 hours to get there, fished for 2 hours, then drove 2 hours to get home.

It was a blast!!!

I am having a very hard time finding sockeye counts at Tumwater dam.  Can you please tell me how I can find these counts?

I know fishing dwindles with the counts, and I don’t want to make the long drive and not catch fish.

I would appreciate any information you can share, websites, phone numbers, anything.  Thanks so much.

— Tad Kasuya

Although the information is not updated as often as anglers would like in season, counts for sockeye heading up the Wenatchee River to Lake Wenatchee are available here , courtesy of WDFW and Chelan PUD’s Tumwater Dam fishway.