| Coming Up This Weekend in the Wenatchee Valley |
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Greetings!
If you're on the lookout for something to do or see this weekend in and around the Wenatchee Valley...take a look!
I'm sure you'll find something to suit you and your family. | |
* Thunder Swamp Sprint Boat Races
* Race Night at WVSO
* AppleSox host Walla Walla in WCL Playoffs |
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Meet the teams, see the boats at Wenatchee Valley Mall, 6-8pm |
United States Sprint Boat Racing Association makes its second stop in East Wenatchee Saturday. Gates open at 9am, racing starts at 10am. Thunder Swamp is across from Pangborn Airport off Grant Road  Featuring Northwest Modifieds, Bump to Pass, Pure Stocks/Youth Hornets. Gates open at 4pm, time trials at 5pm, racing at 5pm
Game two of the West Coast League Eastern Division Playoffs at Paul Thomas, Sr. Field, 7:05pm
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If Necessary, game three of the West Coast League Eastern Division Playoffs at Paul Thomas, Sr. Field, 7:05pm
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| Brag Board, Sports News & Information |
Badges for Baseball is Next Week
(Wenatchee, WA)...The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation has helped create the North Central Washington Badges For Baseball program that will pair law enforcement professionals as mentors and coaches with the youth of our community. Badges For Baseball will serve as a positive outlet for our youth during out-of-school hours when they are most likely to commit or become victims of crime. Join us Monday, August 15 at the Wenatchee Convention Center at 6:00pm for a silent auction and a reception where you'll get to meet Washington Attorney General Robb McKenna and Ex-Seattle Mariner Dave Henderson. For tickets or information contact 509-433-7260.
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We Welcome a New Sponsor to the Wenatchee Valley Sports Council Newsletter!
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| Wenatchee Outdoors Trip of the Week - Andy Dappen | 
Photo: Ascending Nahahum Canyon. Riding from Cashmere, up Nahahum Canyon and descending Swakane Canyon to Rocky Reach Dam is a ride on secluded roads taking you from river to river (Wenatchee to Columbia). It's also a ride taking you from hills of grass to hills of grass with beautiful forests of Douglas firs and ponderosa pines in between. Finally it's a road that logs a lot of elevation gain at the start (2,600 feet) but delivers a 10-mile-long downhill coast to enjoy the fruits of your uphill labor. Along the way the ride delivers beautiful canyon scenes and the occasional long view out toward Twin Peaks and Mission Ridge. 
Photo: Descending Swakane Canyon
Skill : 1+ (advanced beginners). Fitness: 2 to 2+(intermediate to strong intermediate). Bike recommendations. If you shuttle a car to the mouth of each canyon and mainly stick to the low-traffic roads of Nahahum and Swakane canyons, then doing the route on a mountain bike makes the most sense (a cross-bike would still be OK). If you're relying on just one car or no car at all, then a cross bike makes a lot of sense to gobble up the pavement more easily.
Recommended direction.
For the purposes of this ride we recommend starting this ride by driving to Martin's Market (at Cashmere's easternmost traffic light along Highway 2). We also recommend leaving a shuttle vehicle at Rocky Reach Dam or in a large pullout at the bottom of Swakane Canyon (off Highway 97A about 5.5 miles north of Sunnyslope in Wenatchee). Map. See (and print) our map of the route. Trip Instructions . ( The first half of these directions are taken from another ride prepared for WenatcheeOutdoors by Larry Glickfeld). - Mile 0.0 , elevation 780'. From Martin's Market at the east end of Cashmere, go north across Highway 2 and immediately turn left (west) onto the paved Frontage Road.
- Mile 0.8. Turn right onto Nahahum Canyon Rd. and start a long, steady climb on pavement, through mostly private farm or ranch land.
- Mile 6.0, elevation 2400'. Road turns to dirt (Forest Road 7412) and climb steepens considerably. Terrain remains open.
- Mile 7.2, elevation 3250'. Reach the saddle at the top of this route. There's a road junction here. Go straight and almost immediately start descending. Note: On future rides take the left road here which has many options for riding over to Olalla Canyon, Eagle Creek, and the the ridge road along the top of the Entiat Mountains.
- Mile 8.1 elevation 3,000'. In the Beaver pond area take a hard hook to the right ( southeast) and follow Swakane Creek (downhill). Now just keep following the creek drainage downhill for the next 8.4 miles.
- Mile 16.5, elevation 775'. Turn right on Highway 97A and ride about 1 mile to where you left the car at (or near) Rocky Reach Dam.
Photo: A rest stop in the Swakane Canyon. Other resources. See this MapMyRide data about this ride prepared by Ray Birks. (Note: On the first screen of this route, click the '3D-Flyover video' link that stitches together aerial photos - very cool.) Trip Options. To make a longer ride (particularly suited to cross-bikes) don't use a car at all and do the trip entirely on bikes. Or use the bus ( Link Transit ) to catch the bus from Wenatchee to Cashmere, using Route 22 .. Trip Reporters. Prepared by Ray Birks with notes from Larry Glickfeld. Posted 8/2/2011.
Leave It Better than You Found It.
This should be every user's goal. Pick up trash left by others, pull noxious weeds along your route, throw branches over unwanted spur trails, etc. |
| The "Fishin' Magician" Dave Graybill's Weekly Report |
 | | Bruce Hubbell with one of the triploids we landed while fishing at the lower net pens at Rufus Woods. |
A nice surge of salmon entered the Brewster Pool last weekend, and really helped boost the numbers of fish caught during the Budweiser-Lowrance King Salmon Derby. The total catch was off from last year, but anglers fill the top 20 spots on the leader board with big kings. Ralph Tipton was at the top of the board when the dust cleared on Sunday, winning the derby with a 33.84-pound fish. He accepted a check for $1,200.00 from derby organizer J.D. Smith. Winning the youth division top honors was Levi Deshenne. He collected $475.00 for his 19.56-pound king. Fishing has been very slow here off the mouth of the Okanogan River, but a total of 54 fish were weighed in during the three-day derby, indicating that although late, the fish are beginning to arrive in very good numbers. Fishing will improve dramatically in the Brewster Pool, and while sockeye catches will diminish, triploids will replace them as an alternative to summer runs for anglers scratching for fish after the early morning bite. Anglers should expect better fishing below Wells Dam as well. You can visit www.brewstersalmonderby.com for all the details on the derby.
There were more anglers fishing the Columbia below Chief Joseph Dam when I last tried it, this past Thursday. The action wasn't quite as good as it was the first time I fished, the day it opened August 1st. I had two anglers with me and we started out by getting a nice fish just below the bridge on a bobber and Maxi Jig. I then headed down river and caught a couple near my favorite pumphouse. A friend had suggested that I try a Fire Tiger pattern on my plugs, and I not only caught triploids, but a walleye that must have weighed 10 pounds! Then I dropped way downstream and trolled up the shore. I had a couple of hits, but really got into the fish where the new construction is going on near the hatchery outflow. One of my buddies showed up and called me and I told him to fish plugs in this area and he immediately got a bunch! I talked to a couple of guides that had fished below Wells Dam that morning and had come with zilch. It's still an off and on fishery for summer runs there now. It will only get better though as fish continue to move up the upper Columbia.
--Dave Graybill can be heard on radio stations throughout
the Pacific Northwest, seen locally on KWCC TV and
read his articles in The Nickel Ads each week
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| Weekly Lake Chelan Report from Anton Jones of Darrell and Dads |
 | | 7/31/11 Jolene Rhoads of Spangle, WA with a 21lb 3 oz Lake Chelan Laker. She was fishing with our guide Jeff Witkowski and our deckhands Jaime Abarca and Ray Rhoads as well as her kid, Alyssa. |
What's hot again is trolling early for the morning bite on the Bar for Lake Trout. Also, continuing hot is the mid-morning bite on Lake Chelan's Minneapolis Beach for nice numbers of eating sized lake trout. Salmon fishing on the Upper Columbia has been spotty at best. We had a bit of fun bass fishing on Roses Lake too.
On Lake Chelan's "Bar", you should try to arrange it so you can fish a four rod array. Two people each with a two rod endorsement will do the trick. A high percentage of our fish have come off the "poor man's outrigger rods". My theory is that as we drag the downrigger presentations through neutral to negative fish, it alerts and excites them so they bite the lures on the outrigger rods. I like Worden's T4 flatfish on the downrigger rods with a setback of about 40 feet. I like low drag stuff on the outriggers like Silver Horde's Ace Hi flies and Mack's Mini Cha Cha Squidders baited with a chunk of Northern Pikeminnow stuck on the lead hook. We fish those about 100 feet in back of one pound ball that also has significant blowback. Therefore, there will be anywhere from a one to three minute delay between the downrigger and outrigger lures hitting any given piece of the bottom.
Everything that we have heard indicates that the lack of a thermal barrier at the mouth of the Okanogan River has made for very slow salmon fishing. Below Wells Dam, it has been a bit better, but the inconsistent releases from the dam have played hobb with our fishing. We took a businessman's holiday and threw stuff at the Roses Lake Shoreline with some success for Bass. Rattletraps thrown at the outer edge of the coontail reeds worked.
Your kid's tip of the week is to pay attention to kids comfort to ensure they are having fun. We had a recent morning trip that the little boy was overheating a bit. It would have been easy to miss and just keep trying for that next fish. We ventilated and misted to improve his comfort. He had a great time!
Your safety tip of the week is to ratchet up your floating debris awareness on Lake Chelan again. A little surge in water level and evening wind has put some more floating debris out on the lake again. Slow down and watch it. Some of that stuff is partially waterlogged now and sitting quite low in the water. It can be easy to hit. What a nice stretch of weather we're having!
--Anton Jones Operates Darrell and Dads Family Guide Service
in Manson, WA. Go to www.darrellanddads.com for more.
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Sincerely,
Eric Granstrom
Wenatchee Valley Sports Council
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