If you’ve never seen a fish bite a bare hook, you probably have never fished in Lake Wenatchee for sockeye salmon. Luckily, the salmon will readily bite a bare hook, because if they didn’t it would ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week it is opening the sockeye season on Lake Wenatchee starting on July 26 for a season that is expected to run until Aug. 31. The daily ...

If you have ever fished Lake Wenatchee for sockeye salmon, you know there can be some challenges in doing so. First, you have to get your boat into the water. The only public boat launch is available ...

Take your pick, anglers — you can now catch your sockeye with or without the smell of burning timber. Both Baker Lake and Lake Wenatchee are open and accessible, and both fisheries should be good this ...

If you blinked, you may have missed it. The one-week-plus Lake Wenatchee sockeye season, that is. At the time of this writing, the fishery was tentatively scheduled to end Friday. Or maybe sooner, ...

LAKE WENATCHEE -- One of Washington state's most popular sockeye salmon fisheries is drawing to a close. State fishery managers decided to end the first recreational sockeye season in four years on ...

Lake Wenatchee will open for sockeye salmon fishing one hour before official sunrise Saturday. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife made the announcement Wednesday afternoon. Fishing will be open ...

Boats all along the shoreline, but no nets out. Magpies squawk in the alders. A tennis shoe floats by. Plastic bottles, bundles of dried sedge, and tumbleweeds join the parade. About the only thing ...