Salmon Report and Steelhead dreamin’ from Brad Wagner

Hi all, hope summer is treating you great and you can avoid the chores to get some time out on the water! Fishing is still good in the Brewster Pool and below Wells Dam for kings. We are still catching a good amount of sockeye in the Brewster area as well, with a couple kings a trip. Also, the sockeye and kings are both still in very good shape! Below Wells Dam has also been pretty good for kings at times, the season as a whole has been pretty hit and miss, but the guys that stay with it and fish hard are being rewarded with some nice fish.

We are still booking salmon trips for up north and also booking trips for fall run chinook that is forecast to be the second largest run on record at 650,000 fish over Bonneville Dam!! We are booking trips to fish the Hanford Reach for these huge kings now, and we will start fishing them from Sept 1 on.

Now for some steelhead news, the rumor mill is cranking up in high gear with starting date rumors as it always does this time of year, but there my be some VERY good news for all of us who love to steelhead fish — we may see a record-early opener so early I don’t even dare say here on the almighty web, but stay in touch ’cause there could be some huge news very soon!! We are also starting to book steelhead trips and they are starting to fill up in the month of October so get your trip now before it’s too late! I am off to the river; see you on the water.

You can learn more about Brad by checking out his website at Fish Wenatchee, his fishing blog, or the Fetha Styx Team page.

If not, catch up with him the old fashion way:

1227 Down Rd.
Wenatchee Wa 98801
(509) 670-3095
brad@fishwenatchee.com

Salmon Season in Full Swing!

Fishing has been excellent the past month! Sockeye fishing started down here in Wenatchee and until recently was very good, now it continues to be good in the Brewster Pool area — lots of 10-plus fish days. Great for kids with lots of action! Read more »

Spring Chinook Season is underway with Brad Wagner

So the spring chinook season has been going for a week already! Fishing has been pretty good really all in all. The opener was red hot with lots of limits, then it tailed off to moderate fishing from there but with fish still to be caught for sure! Read more »

Native Steelhead

Brad Wagner of fishwenatchee.com with this beautiful native caught on the very first cast with his new Fetha Styx Rod.

Fetha Styx Welcomes Brad Wagner to its Pro-Staff!

An excerpt from Brad:

I spend at least 200 days a year on the water and have for years, between fishing the Wenatchee and Methow rivers along with the Upper Columbia river for salmon and steelhead as well as fishing the Icicle river avidly for springers. I spend a lot of time making all my own gear — tying top quality custom jigs as well as steelhead plastics, also I am finding out that steelhead like a lot more plastics than just the pink worm, so I’m always trying to stay one step ahead of the fish. I also spend lots of time on the water with my kids and others kids and try to involve myself in getting underprivileged kids into the sport that normally wouldn’t have the chance to.

Feel free to check out my website at fishwenatchee.com or my facebook.

Brad runs Bobber Down Guide Service and fishwenatchee.com. Stay tuned for further updates and fishing reports from Brad!