I got a note on last Saturday that my friends Rollie Schmitten and Jim Passage were going to celebrate the end of the Lake Wenatchee sockeye season, by spending a few hours fishing on August 31st. He invited me to come along, and I was eager to join them. The three of us have been fishing Lake Wenatchee sockeye for more years than I can recall, although usually on our separate boats. We would check in with each other during the morning to see how each of us were doing. We were often on different areas of the lake, and would report if we were catching fish, and what depth we were fishing, what color hooks were working, and so on. The three of us have shared many other fishing adventures, including fishing for steelhead on the Columbia River and for the Lahontan cutthroat on Omak Lake. While on the boat that morning we made plans to fish Rufus Woods for rainbow and Buffalo Lake for kokanee later this month. We had a good morning on Lake Wenatchee. It was dead calm, and we landed three nice sockeye in a couple of hours near Rollie’s place on the lake.