On Wednesday, Tom Verschueren, James Lebow and I hit a perfect day to be on Chelan before Memorial Weekend. We launched the Smoker Craft Phantom at the launch above the dam and got the last parking slot. While motoring through the NO Wake Zone we set up the Scotty downriggers and lead ball rods with four ounce sinkers and were ready to go. The Garmin showed kokanee at just 50 feet, near the Red Roofs, so I deployed the Minn Kota Ulterra and set our speed at 1.2 mph. I put the lead ball rigs out 70 feet and the riggers were set at 50 feet, and we had fish on immediately. We continued to troll in an area that had us in 60 to 90 feet of water and all the rods were going off at a good clip. As you probably know, the kokanee are smallish this year, but it is terrific fun. This would be a great year to take the kids out. They wouldn’t be bored! Tom is going to smoke his catch. He does a great job with his smoker. James is going can his, and I love having fish cakes made from kokanee. Yum!