As often happens to me, had I two conversations with folks who saw me pull into a local market. The first one reminded me that we had fly fished upper Icicle Creek with his wife, as he got the trip with me at a Trout Unlimited auction. I remembered the day and how much we all enjoyed catching the small rainbow. The other person had a question about catching Chinook in the Wenatchee River. He has caught a lot of kings in rivers in Alaska, but he couldn’t find his favorite lure here. He had tried using coon shrimp, but they just don’t stay on the hook very well. He also had used large spinners without success. I suggested that he try eggs. You can attached them to your hook with an “egg loop” and they will hold up for many casts. Brother Rick and I had talked about fishing for sockeye in the Wenatchee River and agreed that deep eddies would be a place to look for them. They will often rest in this kind of water. We agreed that drifting a coon shrimp below and bobber would be a good way to get them, too.
A sockeye does a cartwheel in the turbulent water before passing over Tumwater Dam on the Wenatchee River.