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By: cwbraue
Posted: 5/2/2024
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/27/2024
Hot Spots: 0
I made a stop at Kachess last weekend on my way to the Potholes. The shoreline was free of snow, though there was some snow on the hillsides and near the road here and there. They stocked some cutthro...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 9/3/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/2/2023
Hot Spots: 0
FYI- Keechelus boat launch road is closed. So then I went to Kachess. I have never caught fish in this lake and never seen a fish in there until yesterday. I saw several fish jumping this morning, mos...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 5/13/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/12/2023
Hot Spots: 0
This lake appears to have no fish in it. I think this is the fourth time I've tried fishing it and didn't see even a hint of fish. I got on the water about 7 am so there should have been fish close to...
By: sergioclemente
Posted: 7/2/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2022
Hot Spots: 0
My first report, avid reader and first time writer.
Went to Kachess lake with a buddy. Plan was to troll in 200-300 ft of water on both east/west. Based on the previous reports I expected the kok...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 6/4/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/4/2022
Hot Spots: 0
This is the second time I've fished this lake, and the second time I got skunked. I got there around 1:30 which is a terrible time to fish, and conditions seemed decent for fish. I went about a mile d...
By: mgrahamjo
Posted: 7/22/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed at the campground and fished both Saturday and Sunday morning. On Saturday we used the rough launch at the north end of the campground. It was fine for my light trailer but I wouldn't launch a ...
By: G-Man
Posted: 7/29/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Having purchased a new tow vehicle, I decided to give it a mountain pass trial and make it a day at Lake Kachess. The plan was to launch at the Forest Service park and run down south towards the dam ...
By: Ben Eggertsen
Posted: 9/3/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I finally tried kokanee fishing at Kachess. It's a high mountain lake that is in a beautiful setting. At 2000+ feet, the feed is not as plentiful as say Lake Stevens or Merwin and the fish are small...
By: birdjazz10
Posted: 8/24/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Little late on the post. Wanted to formally thank Mike for the video he did on this lake as well as replying to an email I sent him, so THANK YOU!
We did the troll just out in front of the launch. ...
By: ArrowNaughtic
Posted: 8/1/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Spent the weekend up at Lake Kachees trolling for kokes. We were using Jack Lloyd pop gear with my home made wedding rings in orange, red, and green. (3 of us in the boat) Used garlic scented corn and...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Another kokanee lake checked off my bucket list.
I’d been wanting to check out Kachess for a few years and finally got to go. I got to fished with my son James and his girlfriend Jenna. We started...
By: ArrowNaughtic
Posted: 7/25/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Fished from 7 am till about 12:30pm and was constantly getting bites but had a hard time keeping the fish on. Usually this isn't a problem for me but it seems the mouths are softer this year. Out of a...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 4/18/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After doing some hiking I stopped by Kachess lake to try some fishing. I took a raft to the public access area and trolled around for a few hours towards dusk. I tried spoons and spinners with no luck...
By: tquindt
Posted: 7/16/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We finally had a break through after three days of fishing. All of a sudden the Kokes started hitting on worms, eggs, and corn. Unfortunately so did a medium sized Northern Pike. We ended up with t...
By: tquindt
Posted: 7/15/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We finally landed a small Koke today. We were using red wedding rings with corn and eggs. One of the locals we talked to caught 13 using red gulp worms, corn, and garlic scent. He was using 6 oz of...
By: tquindt
Posted: 7/14/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We put in around 1000 and were using wedding rings, worms, rooster tails, etc. Nothing seemed to work, but we both had hits on our flashers that cut the cable in two. Another guy caught two Kokes an...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 7/30/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/28/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Launched with my buddy Chris from Cle Elum,about 9:30am.No sooner get out on the lake and the wind starts to pick up.Went straight out in front of the launch and started trolling for some kokes.First ...
By: freerock
Posted: 7/29/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2013
Hot Spots: 3
I just fished Kachess for 3 days this last week. The Northern Pikeminnows were dominated the game all around the campground area of the lake. I pulled in probably a dozen of these guys each day I fish...
By: oneshot
Posted: 7/30/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Packed up the boat and family and headed to Lake Kachess for a camping, hiking and fishing weekend.. having never caught a Kokanee or put much effort into it yet, that was going to be my main target.....
By: ArrowNaughtic
Posted: 8/26/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the weekend on the lake and didn't see much action. First time in 30 years I have not taken at least one limit if not limited the boat. We were using Jack Lloyd flahers with a wedding ring. A sm...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 8/9/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took a friend from work to Kachess for some Koke action.We trolled various colors of wedding ring harnesses tipped with gulp maggots.Caught several fish but they were pretty small.So back in the lake ...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 7/6/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had to make a trip to E-burg today so I took the boat and headed up to Kachess afterwards.I decided on Kachess because it usually is the least windy of all the lakes in that area.The fish werent real ...
By: Good To Go
Posted: 8/2/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/2/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Lady and I hit Kachess around 9am for a couple of hours. Had 12 hook ups in that time, landed 7. There small, all consistantly small. We were down rigging at about 40 - 45' in water that was over 1...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/8/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Little Kachess using 2 oz sinkers and pop gear w/ flat fish without a bump for 2 hrs.
Switched up to wedding rings, and started getting bumps right away.
Picked up a couple of small kokes, ...
By: epidemic
Posted: 7/14/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
First time out at Kachess. Trolled for kokes in Little Kaches. Landed 1 and lost 1. Even though the fishing was slow, it was a nice day out on the water.