Fishing for kokanee on Lake Chelan is one of the hottest things going on the fishing front here in Central Washington. Even with the Icicle River open to spring salmon fishing and the walleye and bass biting rolling on Moses Lake and Potholes Reservoir, the kokanee at Chelan remain a huge attraction. For good reason, too. It is hard to find action this fast and the table quality as a result is very hard to beat. Lakeside Park is still the destination for most kokanee anglers. Hordes of these "baby" sockeye salmon are swarming in 20 to 50 feet of water off the park. A Flashlites and Wedding Ring spinner combo still attracts strikes, but the hook must be baited with a couple of kernels of white shoe peg corn. I will often start with a chunk of worm on the hook, too, but when the kokanee are really biting, the worm isn't needed. Anglers are allowed to launch from the beach at Lakeside Park until Memorial Weekend, but I like to use Mill Bay in Manson. It's a short run in my new Lund, and I like the fish cleaning station here.