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WDFW stocking information is available to the general public. Some is on their website. For stocking info that isn’t available there you have to contact the responsible biologist.
It sounds like you are off to a great start. Keep doing exactly what you are doing. The lakes you go to will almost always have fish. Fish are not stocked in the national parks so you are much more likely to find fishless lakes there. Your best bet is to go places that look like they’d be fun places to visit. You’ll find fish and a fun place to visit 😀
But the factors you mentioned do make a difference. You’ll find fish across the full range of any factors you can mention, but they make can make a difference in the kind of fishing you’ll find. In general, higher elevation lakes have shorter growing season and fewer groceries so fish grow more slowly and can’t grow as large as in lower elevation lakes. Shallow lakes are more productive then deep lakes. The flipside is that big, deep high elevation lakes are normally more scenic then small, shallow low elevation lakes.
@TheLoneHiker wrote:
Are there fish in Lake Kulla Kulla ?
Yep.
I fished at the ‘pond’ or Little Lake Kulla Kulla and
caught nothing and saw no rises.How cold was the water? If it hasn’t warmed up enough the fish won’t be active and might now show. How long did you fish?
I didnt wander around and down to the big lake when I was there
and am wondering if I should have…Always fish everything :fishing: :caught:
I have a homemade vest. It is a regular vest but made out of lightweit ripstop. Better would be a vest made out of Cuban Fiber. My vest is extremely functional. But it encourages me to bring too much stuff and is still heavier then I’d like.
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Can I pay my yearly dues at the next meeting to become a full member?
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HI Drew, welcome to the forum. I haven’t been to Bengston in a long time so hopefully someone who has been there more recently will chime in with some better information.
It is only about 15 miles from Ballard to Mercer Island 😀
Oh my gosh, my favorite button was broken and I didn’t even notice.
It turns out they added a new feature. We can now exclude forums from the active list. But they all defaulted to off so I had to go set all the forums so they would display under View active topics.
Thanks for pointing out the problem.
The controversy is only in NCNP. Stocking is still allowed in National Forests. Fish were stocked on all federal lands until the mid-seventies. At that time that National Park Service decided fish should not be stocked unless it was to help with recovery of an endangered species. So fish have not been stocked in Olympic or Mt Rainier NPs since that time. But NCNP was different because it had been created in 1969 and during the hearings to create the park they specifically promised that fish stocking would continue. So fish continued to be stocked, though the Park Service didn’t like it. Then in the eighties the contentious issue came to a head when NCNP decided to ban fish stocking and WDFW threatened to air plant a bunch of lakes anyway. They ended up signing a series of memorandums of understanding to allow continued limited fish stocking in a subset of lakes that had been historically stocked. In the meantime they were sued by the North Cascades Conservation Council and as part of their settlement agreed to study the effects of stock fish in park high lakes. That study took over a decade and ended up determining that fish stocked or reproducing in high densities can surpress or eliminate populations of long-toed salamander and alter zooplankton populations (basically, the larger species get grazed off). But they also found that trout stocked in low densities had no measurable effect on native species.
That study culminated in an EIS covering fish stocking in the park. The preferred alternative was for continued fish stocking of low density non-reproducing fish and rehabilitation of lakes with overpopulation problems. But they inserted some monkey business. They said that they wanted clarification from Congress that their intention was to allow fish stocking when they created the park and if they didn’t get that then fish stocking would be stopped and they would start to eliminate spawning populations. And that’s where we sit right now. Fish stocking has been banned until we can get that bill through Congress and they started trying to poison problem populations in the Blum Lakes last September.
