Stocking Claggett Lake 2004

By Dan Shimek

This year the club decided to stock Claggett and Sheep Lake as one of our conservation projects On July17, we started our day at Fisherman’s Bend State Park. As a group, we carpooled up to Marion Fork’s Fish Hatchery, where we meet with ODFW biologist. The loaded 600 tiny fish both Cutthroat and Eastern Brook trout into 8 three-gallon buckets. We drove up to the trailhead that leads into the Campfire Lakes Basin, off of the South Breitenbush River. We hiked the half-mile into Claggett Lake where we dumped 300 fish. A small group continued on another quarter-mile to Sheep Lake.

This was a popular event, we had about 14 people hike into the lakes, and only 8 people carried the fish filled buckets. We carried the buckets in backpacks. We finished to hike with hamburger and hotdogs at the trailhead. We had beautiful weather and great conversation.