All waters · Washington · Lake Chelan
Lake Chelan, WA
Lake in Chelan County, Washington. A 50-mile glacial fjord lake in the North Cascades, the largest natural lake in Washington and one of the deepest in the US. Known for chinook (landlocked) and kokanee salmon, lake trout (Mackinaw), cutthroat trout, smallmouth bass, and burbot. Kokanee and lake trout fish well in summer; smallmouth around the lower basin shoreline in warmer months.
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What swims here
7 tracked species in Lake Chelan, with the months each fishes best.
Water facts
Public ramps at Lake Chelan State Park, Don Morse Memorial Park (Chelan), and Field's Point. The live USGS gauge (Chelan River at Chelan) measures the lake's outlet flow below the dam, a proxy rather than an in-lake reading.
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