If you were following my reports and posts during this year’s sockeye season on Lake Wenatchee, you knew that I struggled getting fish in the boat. The previous year I had tremendous success, often getting limits for as many as four anglers in my boat. This year was a completely different story. If you were frustrated, you weren’t alone. I saw anglers that had been fishing Lake Wenatchee for decades getting skunked! I know that there were some anglers out there that had very good success, but overall, it was a very “off” season for anglers. Travis Maitland, area biologist with the WDFW, sent me a report with the harvest numbers for the 2025 season. The total catch reported was 6,879. In 2024 the catch was about 18,000 for the same period. Although the numbers of sockeye that made it to Lake Wenatchee was an all-time record, there were still plenty of fish in the lake this year. I tried a variety of changes to my usual methods and techniques to catch sockeye this year, and I avoided getting skunked, but I landed about half the number of fish that I landed the previous season. Who knows what next holds for us.