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Usually, the weather is decent in late June at Lake Chelan. This year it was too hot. The fishing was tough. Its a deep water dealio for the Lake Trout and Salmon. We fished 200 - 350 ft deep. The problem is when it gets hot the fish bite really soft. So soft you really don't notice it. We were using down riggers with 10 pound balls. We did fish in other water colums but it seemed that the big ones were deep. My buddy caught a 17 pound land locked chinook salmon and a couple of days later he caught a 22 pound mac. Both were taken with an 11 inch chartreuse dodger with a short skirt pink squid on 2/o hooks.
I ended up taking our grand daughters out because they were bugging me to take them fishing. I figured their best shot would be a carp or whatever in the shallow water. I took a small cast master chrome lure behind the boat about 70 feet and while the girls were messing around my youngest hooked up. The problem was that she had some how got the line wrapped around her neck and I didn't know she had a fish on. I unwrapped the line and thought she was snagged on the weeds. Nope, she had a fish. She reeled it in with me holding the the center of the rod.
Michi's first catch.
I ended up taking our grand daughters out because they were bugging me to take them fishing. I figured their best shot would be a carp or whatever in the shallow water. I took a small cast master chrome lure behind the boat about 70 feet and while the girls were messing around my youngest hooked up. The problem was that she had some how got the line wrapped around her neck and I didn't know she had a fish on. I unwrapped the line and thought she was snagged on the weeds. Nope, she had a fish. She reeled it in with me holding the the center of the rod.
Michi's first catch.
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