

We are not alone, a father and three sons are close by, throwing nickel Kastmasters, after market trout spinners and plunking marshmallows/worms. Now, however, they are living in very cold water and have become difficult to catch. The browns in this lake can be caught on nearly any lure or bait from April through September. Long time STS writer and professional bacon enthusiast Dave Vedder and I are on a modest-sized lake near Chelan on the serious hunt for modest to large brown trout. It’s mid March, early in the season for trout fishing.

It took a 1/4-ounce black/olive twitched jig. If you can’t find excellent trout fishing here, you are just not looking that hard.”Īn average central Washington rainbow. A hundred quality lakes, perhaps far more. Browns, brookies, mackinaw, tigers, Lahontan and westslope cutts, rainbows both wild and hatchery. “For the past four years, I’ve been living in the epicenter of some of the best trout fishing in ‘Middle Earth’-as I like to call it-here in Central Washington.
