When I got a call from my friend Brian Anantatmula about hot fishing for kokanee on Lake Chelan, I immediately made a plan to get up there. Tom Verschuren was eager to join me. We both enjoy fishing for kokanee on Lake Chelan, and this would be his first opportunity to do so this season. We left the launch at Mill Bay, and when we hit 100 feet of water, I turned the boat down lake. We got a couple of fish and kept on moving. When we got to an area below Rocky Point, where we have found fish before, we finally started seeing good numbers on the Garmin fish finder. I adjusted the depth on the Scotty downriggers to just 50 feet, and the back rods to 75 feet with four-ounce lead balls for weight. I found that adjusting the speed on the Minn Kota from 1 mph to 1.4 and then dropping it back to 1 frequently helped tempt the kokanee to strike. Our catch rate soared, and we put 20 kokanee in the cooler. Big numbers of small kokanee that were 8 to 11 inches long have moved into the lower basin on Chelan.