High Fish Lakes of Washington State

This page shows the locations of alpine fishing lakes, with data scraped from the WDFW site. To help planning, it breaks them out by whether they are overabundant or good starting lakes.

Overabundant:

Overabundant lakes are ones where there are too many fish (usually from human stocking) for the available resources. This puts a great burden on the ecosystem, and the WDFW encourages anglers to harvest the maximum daily limit. Enjoy Washington's mountains, catch some of the hungriest fish you'll ever find, and do the environment a favor!

Starting:

These lakes are easier to access for people new to the sport of alpine fishing.

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Good Starting Lakes
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Elevation: Lake Size: County:

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Starting

Overstocked

Other

If you want to explore what these lakes and mountains really look like, I highly encourage you to use Google Earth and plug in these KML files:

This site was created as a project by Field Cady. If you have any feedback you can reach him at field.cady@gmail.com. If the map is too far out of date (see the last update above) you can ping him and ask him to update it.

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