My experience has been that a combination of unsettled weather and a full moon can have a negative impact on fishing, and when I fished for sockeye on Lake Wenatchee on Friday with Tom Verschuren we found the action way off the pace from pervious trips. Very heavy afternoon winds discouraged me from going again until this weather pattern settles down. I wanted to do some afternoon to evening fishing on the lake, but this just wasn’t possible with winds to 30 mph coming up in the afternoons. So, Friday afternoon I grabbed my light weight fly rod and drove up the Icicle Creek valley to a spot that I hadn’t fished for a couple of years. Apparently the trout had missed me because they put on quite a show. Just about every time I cast my fly there would be a small rainbow waiting to swat it. I had a blast catching Icicle Creek’s little rainbow the day before in another area, and this time I decided to count every little fish I caught and released. When I released my 50th I quit. All of the trout put together probably wouldn’t make a meal for many people, but what fun!
Tom Verschuren shows that the condition of the sockeye on Lake Wenatchee is holding up nicely.