We went out to Keechelus lake today, I've always wanted to fish this lake since I saw it as a child whenever we would drive over the pass. Anyways, we accessed the lake at the dam (is that OK?) and took out my inflatable kayak close to shore, since I have five year old kids and it has a slow leak. We saw minnows/baby fish near the shore, so we knew there were some kind of fish there. I was fishing a spinner as I was paddling the boys around within a hundred yards of the shore, but I saw later that the water there is only about 15" deep with mostly a mud bottom- not exactly great trout habitat. I trolled my spinner back toward the shore and when I was less than 20' from shore in about 6 feet of water a small fish shot up from under a stump and hit my spinner- but unfortunately wasn't hooked.

I went snorkeling after that and saw that that part of the lake is pretty shallow without a lot of structure except small stumps, and some boulder piles. I hope to fish Keechelus again when I can cover more of the lake and hopefully find some bigger fish.