I got to go over the next weekend to stay at a friend's cabin for a week.  I was located about 9 miles up the lake, a couple of miles past the state park on the west side, and I must admit I was frustrated the first day or two.  I fished fairly shallow but never got to experience the "great topwater bite" I often hear of on Lake Chelan.  (Is it too late in the year?) 

Finally on the third day I switched over to fluorocarbon and down-sized my baits and began to catch fish in 20 feet or less.  Most were small. Unfortunately for every bass I caught, I nailed a dozen trout.

I did discover some large fish on the fourth day after traveling down closer towards Chelan.  I found some actual mud flats in 28-30 feet of water that had a few bigger bass positioned right on the drop offs.  The wind kept me from fishing those spots on the 5th and 6th day.

On the last day, my daughter's boyfriend joined me.  Relatively new at fishing, I decided to take him trolling for trout and bass.  He was having a good time with the trout, but then we came around a bend and both hooked up with smallies.  We turned around and went through that same small stretch and caught a couple more.  Before we were done, we caught 15 bass and a dozen trout within a 15 minute span in that one little stretch.  He was thrilled at how hard the bass fought compared to the trout.  Maybe I can convert him!

So over all it was a nice time, but I never hooked up with anything over 2.5 pounds.  From what I am gathering, I just stayed too shallow to find the larger fish?  Do any of those bigger fish come off the steep rocky shorelines that disappear into the depths at 45 degrees?  Or do they tend to come more off the flatter slopes?  I never did get down to the City of Chelan area because all the hydro's were running that week.  Is that a flatter more basin shaped area of water? 

Just sitting here scratching my head wondering what I should have done different...