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Reports > 2023 > May > Wednesday 10
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
 
By Dave Graybill
 
I gave Travis Maitland, biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife at the office on the Chelan Highway a call, and he had a lot of good news for anglers in the Wenatchee area. First of all, the return of spring Chinook to the Icicle River should be slightly better than last year. They expect somewhere between 75,000 and 11,000 adults to return to the hatchery this season. Enough that they are considering bumping the limit to three fish, with no more than two being adults. The fish are showing up a little late again, but based on Pit tag estimates, Maitland is confident that there will be very good harvestable numbers of springers in the Icicle this year. There should be an announcement about the Icicle opening sometime next week. Also, of interest to local anglers is that the lakes in the Highlands have been planted. These include Lilly, Clear lakes and Beehive Reservoir. As usual snow at these elevations prevented planting in time for the opener, but here are plenty of trout available in these lakes now. Maitland noted that Beehive particularly should have very good numbers of carryover trout that should show up in catches this season.