Recent content by AlpineFisher

Unfortunately, there are occasional errors with WDFW stocking records for high lakes. In this case, your second lake was stocked in 2021 but that record was attached to your first lake. Since they share a name, I imagine whoever updated the records chose the wrong lake. The first lake hasn't...

Not me. I haven't been there in many, many years.

There's no record of brookies ever being stocked in that lake. They started to show up about 10 years ago in limited numbers. How did they get there??? Probably a bucket biologist.

If this is Lonesome near Mt. Rainier, about 1,800 tiger trout fry were stocked in 2019. This was a joint experiment between Trail Blazers and WDFW to see if stocking the tigers on top of the reproducing brookie population would help control the brookies. The hope was that the tigers would get...

The story behind the stocking of the grayling in 1946. Ole Eide worked for the Department of Game from 1934 to 1969. [Ole Eide] got 55,000 1-inch grayling fry from Tokul creek hatchery and rented a plane at Bellingham. They (sic) he rigged uo (sic) some parachutes and made a pass or two at the...