I took a trip to Lake Chelan last weekend, and had a great time fishing the main lake in the morning and at Roses Lake in the afternoon. I can see why all the guides on the Lake Chelan are raving about the lake trout fishing. I was trying to catch a king salmon and couldn’t help but catch some very nice lakers. I was trying to avoid fishing too near the bottom, but whenever I did get within five of ten feet of it—wham, a lake trout would grab my bait. These are prime fish now, too, not that they aren’t all year with the cold water in Lake Chelan. One of them coughed up about a nine-inch kokanee when I got it in the net! I decided to run up over the hill to Roses Lake for the afternoon. I had heard that the ice was off the lake and wanted to see if the trout fishing was any good. Well, if you like to catch 13-inch rainbow in 44 degree water that jump and scrap like crazy, Roses is the place to be. I put one rod out with a bead-head, olive Wooly Bugger fly on it, and tried some other stuff on another rod. I landed eight of these rainbow on the fly and missed a whole bunch of hits. The other rod was quiet, but if I would have had a worm on my flatfish or other lures I am sure I would have got plenty of action.