The sockeye bite has been terrible at Lake Wenatchee. Two of my friends, very experienced sockeye anglers, didn’t even go out on Tuesday. Ever the optimist, and despite having three very bad days in a row, I went anyway. My brother Lane, his daughter Sophie and my daughter Whitney were with me for what promised to be another very tough day of fishing. Because it was calm that day, I chose to point the Bob Feil Boats and Motors Smoker Craft down lake, instead of firing up the Mercury and making a beeline to the top of the lake. When I hit 150 feet of water, I deployed the Minn Kota and put out the gear. I noticed more surface activity than I had yet this season, but it took at least a half hour before we got our first fish. Then things picked up. I was running all black hooks and most of the rods were getting bit. I decided to put some red hooks on, and I immediately got a fish. We had nine fish in the cooler when I headed for the dock. Things have finally picked up on Lake Wenatchee!