Enchantment Lakes Fishing Guide, Chelan County, Washington

• Overview

  Enchantment Lakes is one of the Chelan County listings for Washington. Around the bank it is mixed forest. It is pond-in-a-field scale, with the far bank a short lob away. Our Chelan County list holds plenty of bigger water. Leavenworth is the closest town at 11 miles. Cashmere is 16 miles and Cle Elum 20 miles. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Enchantment Lakes

  Our records carry no depth, so judge it from the bank. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Chelan County records list cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, sockeye salmon, Chinook salmon and largemouth bass among the fish reported. At least one recorded species is protected in parts of its range; read the local rules before targeting anything. Read Enchantment Lakes for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is 21°F to 55°F. Cold locks it up for a good stretch each year. The open season starts with the thaw, near enough early May. Break-up sits around early May on average, with the water closing again about mid November. The shoulder weeks of the open season are the productive ones. Enchantment Lakes runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. A campsite is mapped about half a mile away, which makes an early start easier. Toilets show in mapping about half a mile away. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Lake Sigrun sits 0.2 miles off and takes the overflow. Nothing here settles the position at Enchantment Lakes for certain.