My friend and fishing buddy for many years, Brian Anantatmula, invited me to give the kokanee fishing a try on Lake Chelan. We have had many very successful kokanee fishing experiences on the lake, often with his son and daughters along. This was the maiden voyage of his boat for the season and since it was a Friday we were on our own. We launched at Mill Bay and found the water level just fine. We fired up the Garmin and didn’t see any fish off Mill Bay so headed on down to an area below Rocky Point and launched the Minn Kota. We weren’t really marking many fish here, but did get a bunch of bites and landed one of the typical fish that are abundant in Chelan this season. Which means a kokanee of 9 or 10 inches. I did get one that measured 15 inches on one of my favorite pink-and-silver Kokabow blades and a pink squid. Almost all of our hits came on our back rods, and not the riggers. It looks like there are two year classes in the lake so far. The small ones and the 15-inchers. All are fun to catch and tasty!