Although I have been cursing the wind at Lake Wenatchee this sockeye season, it has been my experience that it actually has been a blessing. I have had much better fishing on windy days than when it was flat calm, which has been rare. On Tuesday, Rob Phillips and I were headed to the dock by seven in the morning with our limits. When Rollie saw me coming he texted me asking if we were okay. He didn’t expect me to finish so early! We had a nice breeze that morning. On Wednesday, Tom Verschuren and I arrived at the lake to find it dead calm. We spent some time at the top end of the lake and talked to several anglers that agreed that the fishing was much slower that morning. We got a few up there and I trolled down the lake out in the middle. I switched from black hooks to bright orange and pink and that changed things for us. We lost a few fish, including a really big one right at the boat, but managed to get our eight fish by nine o’clock. You can still catch fish on a calm day, it just takes a little longer. Now I am praying for wind!