As per the posted report that the lake contains "Native Cutts" is very incorrect. This lake has been planted or stocked by the Game Dept. now the WDFW for well over 50 years with Coastal and Tokul Creek Cutthroat stains. Evidently, the person who reported that it had "Natives" was misinformed. The fish are raised in the hatchery as fry, then stocked, but grow up to resemble wild trout. This is a common avenue or procedure when stocking backwood lakes with trout fry, particularly cutthroats and various strains of rainbows in conjunction with the WDFW stocking program. The gist of it is, what you think is native, really isn't, it was either put there by the WDFW personnel, a Trail Blazer Club member, or perhaps the Snohomish Sportsmen's Club...two clubs in which I belong to, club's that have been stocking lakes with trout fry since the 1930s, fry raised from the egg in hatcheries and stocked at a low density.

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