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Presidents Packby KEN MASEL 2009 President

When I assumed the position of Hi-Lakers president earlier this year, I didn’t know what to expect. Fortunately, thanks to the dedication and enthusiasm of many mem-bers, the job has been quite easy. I am constantly amazed at the amount of time people are willing to contribute for an organization made up entirely of volunteers. So, to all those who have volunteered to make the Hi-Lakers a bet-ter club, I say thank you!

Two significant projects are either under way or have been completed that will benefit our membership.

The first is the release of the Hi-Lakers forum (http://forum.hilakers.org/forum). The forum allows better or-ganization of information while also allowing historical information to be more easily accessed. For example, if a member sent out a trip report with photos to the Yahoo E-mail loop, the Yahoo website for the loop did not cap-ture the photos. Years from now, if one wanted to review the photos, they would need a copy of the original e-mail. With the forum, photos are easily captured and can be reviewed with ease at a later date. In addition, the forum allows better organization of information and includes a search function for easily finding information at a later date.

Thanks to the hard work of Kathy Cropp, Brian Curtis, Kent Lufkin, Mike Monsos, Rich O’Connell, and others

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Richard (Dick) Cranz, 1916-2009by DAVID BERGER 2009 Web Page Administrator

Dick Cranz passed away last month, an avid outdoorsman and Hi-Laker since 1963. He was 92 and passed peacefully after a brief decline. I went to the Me-morial Service on Sunday afternoon May 17, remem-bering Dick's life and the people he touched.

About thirty people were in at-tendance at the memorial, including Hi-Lakers George and Steve Bucher, Bill Henkel and old-timer Virgil Mudd.

People remembered Dick's focused life: his resolute evangelical religious beliefs and how he prayed to god for answers to specific questions, his commitment to

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Volume 14—Issue 2 www.hilakers.org

D e d i c a t e d t o h i g h l a k e f i s h i n g a n d p r e s e r v i n g t h e m o u n t a i n e n v i r o n m e n t .

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IN THIS ISSUE:

Richard (Dick) Cranz ...................1

Presidents Pack ..........................1

New members .............................3

Treasurers Report ......................3

Trip Report .................................4

Dues Reminder ...........................6

New Position Created: Survey Equipment Chairman... 7

Survey Report/ Checkout Lakes List .................8

Winter Social Recap ...................9

Summer Picnic Invitation ......... 10

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Next Hi-Lakers Meeting ..........6/17 Mercer Island Fire Station

Summer Picnic ....................... 7/15 Newcastle Beach Park

Summer Survey Trip ............ 8/7–9 Bandera Mountain Area

Photo by Don Cannon

Dick at Sunrise Lake, 1966.

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Dick Cranz continued.

“natural” health and abhorrence of doctors, his gener-osity to family with his carpentry skills (a member of Carpenter’s Local 131 for over 60 years), his frugality and personal austerity, and his love of fishing. Several grand-children spoke with affectionate memories.

Steve Bucher eloquently related camping and fishing with Dick in the eastern Washington desert every spring for many years, beginning when he was a tyke of 11. They would just strike out in some direction and see what they could find. One lake produced nice rainbows and they named it Stick Lake, for Steve and Dick. I remember Dick telling me that he knew the desert lakes “like the back of my hand.” Hidden Lakes was another favorite annual outing. On one of his first trips he hooked a lunker that pulled him all over the lake and took three hours to land. There was just half-a-turn of line left on his spool at one heart-stopping moment. But he landed the fish, and its

Presidents Pack continued.

the forum was made available for all members earlier this year. The Hi-Lakers forum promises to be a very valuable tool, allowing members to communicate with each other.

The second project is the Lake Survey Kit: In the con-tinuing quest to encourage more and better lake surveys, the Survey Kit will help achieve this goal. The kit will contain various items that allow members to collect more and better information when surveying lakes. The kit will be made available to members at a very nominal cost and should become a key tool when surveying lakes. The Sur-vey Kit is expected to be made available to members very soon. (As a matter of fact, the Survey Kit may be available by the time this column is published!)

Rex Johnson and Rich O’Connell have put a tremen-dous amount of work into identifying the necessary components for the Survey Kit. In addition, Don Wick-lund has volunteered to oversee the Survey Kit and is responsible for making the kit available as well as pro-moting the kit to the club. Thanks to the work of Rex, Rich and Don, the Survey Kit will be a reality.

One of the first curveballs thrown at me as club presi-

colossal size led the next season to the institution of the Kingfish award.

Dick was HL president 1979-1981 and again in 1997, and part of the stalwart crew who rebuilt and maintained the Granite Mountain Look Out, carrying heavy supplies like roofing up 4,000 vertical feet. He was happy to share his remarkable knowledge of Washington’s lakes and wel-comed new members to accompany him on trips. I went with him to a number of lakes when I first joined the club, when he was in his mid 80's, including a few off trail wild goose chases. Dick introduced me to the Curtis raft, loan-ing me his spare white raft, #2, for fishing on Maud Lake. I also recall a bicycle trip to Drunken Charlie Lake, and Dick going like a bat out of hell on the downhill, much faster than I dared. He continued hiking and fishing until he was in his late 80s. He is survived by three children and additional stepchildren, numerous grand kids, and sister.

dent was that the two members most involved with the Hi-Laker newsletter wished to step down from that func-tion. For many years, Walt Curtis was responsible for the printing and distribution of the newsletter while also performing some editing and proofing duties. In addition, Steve Palmen wished to step away from the editor and production responsibility of the newsletter after years of assuming this responsibility.

Since many members look forward to the newsletter, and the newsletter is an important tool for communicat-ing with the membership, it became crucial to fill these roles and responsibilities. Fortunately, Eric Junes agreed to take on the responsibility for design and layout, Jed Sires has become editor, and I am responsible for distri-bution.

Thanks to the past work of Walt and Steve, and to the volunteer effort of Eric and Jed, the newsletter will con-tinue to be a key component of the Hi-Lakers.

For years, one of the many descriptions of the Hi-Lakers was that it was a social club. In keeping with that theme, traditions such as the Winter Social, Summer Picnic, and Fall Overnighter have been developed and are scheduled annually. But, there was no event focusing on high lakes. To remedy this, I will be hosting the Hi-Lakers Summer Survey Outing later this year.

The Summer Survey Outing will be a trip to one or more alpine lakes with the exact location and date yet to be finalized. The trip will be designed so that members may come for the day, or overnight, and enjoy one or more days fishing and exploring alpine lakes. Once the location and date are determined, details will be released at up-coming club meetings and on the Hi-Lakers forum.

The first couple of months as club president have not only been fun, but also very rewarding. I look forward to the same during the second half of the year.

Club ContactsIf you have dues ($10/year due January 1st) or other financial matters, contact: Treasurer: Rex Johnson; rex1@u.washington.edu 3941 NE 158th Lane; Lake Forest Park, WA 98155 206-366-1629Program Committee Chair: Dave Weyrick; drweyrick@comcast.netNewsletter Editor: Jed Sires; jed@investsoundly.com Production: Eric Junes; dangerboy@comcast.netCover photo: Swallow Lake #3 by Ken Masel ©2009 Washington State Hi-Lakers

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Treasurer’s Reportby REX JOHNSON 2009 Treasurer

Here is a summary of our finances for the Year 2008:Please note that this table shows all actual income and

expenses for the year 2008.

Plot of Hi-Laker Club Year End Money

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Starting Balance (1/1/2008) $5239.38

Income:

Dues 1244.49

Interest 140.55

Winter Social Raffle 642.00

Winter Social Door 640.00

Winter Social Silent Auctions 393.00

Selling Fish ID Cards 40.97

Overnighter & 50th Anniversary 1547.00

Fish Scale Sales 60.00

Book Raffle 46.00

Total income for 2008 $4754.01

Expenses: Newsletter 0.00

Meeting room rent 389.00

Winter Social 316.71

Summer Picnic 245.43

Photo contest 85.00

Kingfish awards 89.60

Speaker compensation 25.00

North Cascades campaign 162.83

Web page 367.98

Trailsfest 100.00

Overnighter expenses 756.80

50th Anniversary shirts/hats 1017.80

Insurance 350.00

Name tags 20.70

Photo Poster foam boards 34.75

Total expenses for 2008 $3961.60

End Balance (12/31/2008) $6031.79

New MembersPlease welcome our newest Hi-Lakers

since the last Newsletter

David Downs Mill Creek

Justin Gloudeman Tacoma

Marcy Henske Arlington

Dan Lineback Renton

Lloyd Long Wenatchee

John McKlosky Seattle

Scooter Welch Renton

Alan Yen Seattle

Brennan Stanfield Everett

As of this Newsletter, we have 131 members!

For an overall perspective of how the club is doing fi-nancially, here is a plot of the “Year End Funds” for the club for the past 6 years:

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Trip ReportStory and photos by KEN MASEL 2009 President

Recently, I was asked by another Hi-Laker if the entry I submitted for the John Baskin Survey Contest could be re-viewed. In lieu of giving one member a copy, I have decided to publish the trip report portion of the entry for all to read.

In addition to the trip report, I also submitted copies of the survey reports for the nine lakes visited on this trip, photos of the lakes, the routes, a detailed map created with data collected with my GPS, a data sheet detailing trailhead loca-tions, notes about trails and cross country routes, information on the condition and location of campsites, and any other perti-nent information.

Anyways, on with the report!

Trip Report: Swallows, Square, Milk, Wolverine, Clear and Butterfly Lakes – August 10-12, 2008

On Sunday morning, I awoke to rain and made the drive towards the trailhead. The weather forecast was calling for good weather that day so I decided to proceed even in the midst of questionable conditions. Around 7 a.m., I pulled into the Sultan Bakery parking lot to grab a quick breakfast and realized that I didn’t have my driver’s license, debit card or cash. I had put these things together the previous night in a small Ziploc bag and placed them with my keys so I wouldn’t forget them. Somehow, I had either misplaced or lost the Ziploc.

I immediately retraced my steps but didn’t find the missing items until I returned home in Lake Stevens where I found the Ziploc. With much relief, I was back on the road. After the many miles of back-tracking, I realized I was going to need fuel or I wouldn’t be able to return from the moun-tains. I stopped and fueled up in Monroe, then ate breakfast be-fore continuing.

I sped down the highway making up for lost time; at this point, I was 2.5 hours behind my original schedule. I turned off Highway 2 onto the Foss River Road then turned again onto the Tonga Ridge Road. The road was a little rough in places so I put my truck into four-wheel drive to eliminate some tire spinning. After about an hour, I reached the

end of the road and parked. I got out of my truck and to my surprise I had a flat rear tire. Since I was in four-wheel drive for most of the road, I didn’t notice the tire and at-tributed any difficulty steering to the fact that I was in four-wheel drive. Not wanting to deal with the tire at the end of the trip, I decided to change the tire immediately. As soon as I set up the jack and other tools it started to rain, so I dug the rain gear out of my pack before continu-ing. After changing the tire, the rain eased and I decided to remove the rain gear before leaving. I was finally on my way at 11:15 a.m. when originally I thought I would

be on the trail by 9:00 a.m. As I walked down the Decep-tion Creek cutoff trail, I immediately got soaked from the brush. After another couple of soakings, I stopped and put on my rain gear again!

After stopping and starting several times, I finally fin-ished the four mile hike to Deception Lakes at 2:00 p.m. With the incredible slow rate I was going, I figured I’d never get to my final destination of Swallow #3 Lake before evening.

After a quick bite to eat, I continued up the old Cascade Crest Trail cutoff toward the De-ception Horse Camp and worked my way up and around Butterfly Lake. Because I had ac-companied Dave Harwell last year on a trip to Swallow Lake #4, I knew the exact route to take.

By 3:00 p.m., I had reached the top of the crest with views down into Clear and Square Lakes.

I headed down through the light brush and dropped about 200 feet to avoid some cliffs and tricky hillside, crossed a snowfield, then headed uphill about 300 feet to

Swallow Lake #2.

Clear Lake (foreground) & Square Lake (background).

Swallow Lake #3 panorama.

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Square Lake otters.

avoid more cliffs and rocks. There were some minor drops in elevation before completing the final climb to the top of the ridge overlooking the Swallow Lakes drainage. From this vantage point, I could see my destination!

I worked my way downhill through the wet and slick heather and grasses. Then contoured around and up to Swallow Lake #3, arriving about 4:45 p.m. I performed a few chores, setup camp in a little used spot, and cooked dinner. Having been to all four of the Swallow Lakes, I believe the up-permost lake, #3, is the prettiest.

The next day, I sur-veyed the lake, took numerous photos, packed up camp and left. After a few min-utes, I dropped my pack, grabbed my fish-ing gear, and headed towards the remaining Swallow Lakes. I made it to Swallow #2 in about 30 minutes and spent a few minutes fishing. I then worked my way down to Swallow #1 and made a few casts. Since I had fished both these lakes the previous year, I knew they contained reproducing CT populations.

I found the route up to Swallow Lake #4 with ease since I had visited the lake the previous year. After a couple of minutes, I noticed an oc-casional rise. I made a few casts but didn’t hook anything. However, I did have a few fish hit my spoon.

After leaving Swallow #4, I made it back to my pack, and headed up to the top of the ridge following the same route I had taken the previous day. I wanted to go to Square Lake, having never been there before. From the top of the ridge, there appeared to be a fairly easy route that mostly followed a creek down. I headed down and in 30 minutes,

I was on the shores of Square Lake.I knew there would be campsites at the outlet but I

didn’t really feel like working my way around the shore-line. Instead, I headed west along the south shoreline and found a camp almost immediately.

After setting up camp and eating dinner, I fished for a few minutes and caught a few small cutthroat before go-ing to bed.

Since I was so close to Milk and Wolverine Lakes, I left camp the next morning to explore these two lakes. I found parts of a path around Square before heading up towards Milk. As Milk came into view, I could hear splashing. It was two deer wading in the shallows on the east side of the lake. I watched the lake for a few minutes looking for signs of fish and then spent another couple minutes fish-ing. Unfortunately, I didn’t see or catch a fish.

I left Milk and headed towards the Square Lake outlet where I knew I would pick up the maintained trail that goes by Wolverine Lake and drops down to Leland Creek. As I approached the outlet, I found a boot beaten path that looked like it went around the lake. I was at the outlet in a couple of minutes and heard a grunting sound com-ing from the lake. It was an otter letting me know he was around. I gathered he wasn’t happy with my presence.

The otter would dive and reappear in a couple of seconds in a different loca-tion. I wanted to try and get a picture of it since my previous otter photos from both Larch and Ivanhoe Lakes hadn’t turned out. I turned on my camera and zoomed in as far as possible. The otter popped back up near a log and I snapped the photo. By the time I had finished tak-ing the picture, the otter had gone back underwater. I previewed the photo on my

camera and the otter was clearly visible. There also appeared to be a log in the back-ground which, once I processed the photos at home, turned out to be the head of another otter. I felt very fortunate to not only see the

otters, but also to be able to get a single photo with both.I crossed the dam at the outlet of Square and walked to

Wolverine. I had been warned that Wolverine had been full of small rainbows in the past and this hadn’t changed. After 10 minutes of fishing and taking photos, I returned to the Square Lake outlet and ate lunch.Continued on page 6

Wolverine Lake.

Milk Lake.

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2009 Dues Reminderby REX JOHNSON 2009 Treasurer

As the Treasurer for our club, one of my responsibilities is to publish a list of names of club members who were paid up members last year, but for some reason, have not paid this year. This is intended to be a polite reminder. If you feel your name is on this list erroneously, please let me know. This year I am giving a person who pays their dues a yellow 2009 Hi-Lakers Membership card. This card is intended to not only be a membership card but also proof that you have paid your dues. If you paid your dues by mail, please remind me to give you your card at the next meeting. The dues are only $10, which considering

Scott ChaffeeScott ChisholmDaryl CrockfordWalt CurtisDavid HolmesDavid HooverKen Johnson

Glen LeeDavid LoyJim MighellVirgil MuddDan PeirceDave PettClar Pratt

Ryan RydalchArvin ShajanianSteve SpeirTyler SpeirTylor StrandBrian Waldrop

Dues can be paid at the meetings or mailed to me at my home address. Make checks payable to the “Hi-Lakers". Rex Johnson, 2009 Treasurer, Washington State Hi-Lakers 3941 NE 158th Lane; Seattle, WA 98155

the great Programs, Newsletter, Lake Survey program, Web Page, and other activities is a REAL bargain!

The following are the names of members who paid dues last year but have NOT yet paid their dues for the year 2009:

Winter Social Recapby ERIC JUNES 2009 Vice President

Hi-Lakers and Trail Blazers joined ranks again for the annual Winter Social, which took place on Saturday, March 14TH at the Aqua Club in Kenmore. We had a great turnout with 68 paying adults and plenty of kids too.

Many members showed up early to help set up tables, chairs, and all the equipment needed for an enjoyable evening. There was no shortage of people ready to lend a hand.

Pete Smith netted $304 while managing the plethora of door prizes and silent auction items. The silent auction included a Milwaukee Digital Inspection Tool, a Hennessy Hammock, framed photo contest print, fly tying kit and a shadow box of flies.

Rex Johnson and Dave Weyrick guarded the door from groupies and handled admission fees which totaled $544.

A beautiful quilt made by Pete Smith’s wife Cheryl, and an anonymously donated Marmot down sleeping bag fueled raffle ticket sales. Don Wicklund and Jed Sires sold tickets and raked in a whop-ping $327.

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Trip Report continued.

After lunch, I found the boot path around Square and, for the most part, was able to follow it back towards camp. I then packed up camp since I was done visiting the lakes in the area.

I was at Clear Lake in 15 minutes. It appears a very large snow slide, either during the winter or the spring came down into Clear and swept across the lake. There were broken trees on the west slope of the lake and large amounts of debris high up on the east side of the lake. In addition, the water had a glacial color to it and there was a tremendous amount of debris floating on the lake.

I spent a few minutes fishing but didn’t catch anything once again. I headed up the hill and found a beautiful ramp covered in grasses and heather that took me most of the way up the hill. I then picked up the original route I had used a couple of days beforehand. After cresting the ridge, I dropped into Butterfly Lake and dug my fishing pole out of my pack. I fished for a few minutes near the outlet and had one fish hit my spoon but didn’t hook any-thing.

I then packed up, dropped into the Horse Camp, and headed out. I was able to make the trip from Square, with stops at Clear and Butterfly in 3 ½ hours as opposed to the six hours coming in.

After a difficult beginning, this became a fun trip. I was able to survey some lakes that intrigued me for years and visit lakes that I intended to visit the previous year, but skipped because of bad weather.

Are you still receiving the paper version of this newsletter? Did you know that you can receive this newsletter electronically? Just send an email to the Editor and ask to switch to the eNewsletter. Each edition will be posted on the Hi-Lakers website as a PDF, viewable with the free Adobe Reader

software (http://get.adobe.com/reader/). This means you can download the newsletter the moment it’s published and save the club from the time and expense of printing and mailing the paper version. Plus it’s good for the environment. Give it a try, won’t you?

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New Position Created: “Survey Equipment Chairman”by DON WICKLUND 2009 Survey Equipment Chairman

Greetings to all yee Hi-Laker’s of Washington State.Come on—Gather around, don’t be shy—Gather round

close for this special announcement: I have “agreeably volunteered” for the highly respected

position of the Survey Equipment Chairman. (It was ei-ther this, or all of my most productive secret lakes would be revealed for all to see). But, I digress…

Yes, it is I, Don Wicklund, former Hi-Laker President somewhatextraordinaire circa 2006, here to reveal to you the most special tools of the trade that you can use to produce excruciatingly detailed high lake surveys that are (seriously now) used in the important implementation of good management practices regarding our precious high lakes. The information that you provide can have a major affect on the decisions made regarding the fish plant-ing of our high lakes by admired volunteers, such as the members of the Trail Blazers Club. These hardy men and women work in conjunction with the State of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. They pick up trout fry from a state hatchery and carry them in containers to specified lakes and release them where they become the prize you hope for on your journeys.

Rex, Bill, Rich and now I have been working on putting together the makings of a Lake Survey Kit that you may purchase at meetings or through the mail. We are pur-chasing in bulk and passing the savings on to you.

I recommend that your Lake Survey Equipment Kit contain the following items:

1. Measuring Tape [$2.00]. This tape is in inches as well and centimeters and goes up to 60”. For you weight conscience fools such as I, you can cut it off at 20” and save 1.5 grams of weight. Ha.

2. Scale for measuring the weight of your catch. I am working on purchasing two different brands of scales that you may choose from.

a. The Pesola Scale [$40.00 to $50.00] is a very nice precision instrument. The numbers and markings are encased within a plastic tube. I am trying to purchase the ones that will tell us weight in pounds as well as grams.

b. The Pesnet Scale [about $20.00] is also a decent scale. I have used this one for at least 8 years, but the markings eventually wore off. I suspect this may have been due to excessive use of DEET.

3. Mechanical Pencil [$0.25] Lightweight, strong and wildly colored for easy finding.

4. White Cup with Lid [$0.90] Used to help examine stomach contents.

5. Small Magnifier [$0.75?] Used for closer examination of those tiny partially digested bugs. It could also come in handy to start a fire if you fall out of your raft.

6. Thermometer [ ???] I am still researching this. The tem-perature of a lake is an important piece of information for a biologist.

7. Trout ID Card [about $6.00] This is an extremely valu-able tool with beautiful pictures and descriptions of eight of the most frequently caught fish in the high lakes of Washington.

8. Survey Forms [Free!] This is where you will record all the information about the fish, lake, area, stomach contents, sensitive species and other pertinent infor-mation requested. I usually have some available at our meetings. You can also download them from our web-site.

9. Survey Primer This is a document authored by Bob Pfeifer, a retired fishery management biologist and member of the Hi-Lakers that provides us with very good directions on how to properly fill out our survey forms. This can be found on the Hi-Lakers website un-der the Fish Surveys tab. I highly recommend that you read this article to familiarize yourself with the process.

10. Handy Dandy Carrying Pouch [$1.00 to $2.00] Credit my wife, Belinda with this one. We have a prototype and all of the above items fit perfectly into this light-weight, see through and quick drying pouch.

I apologize that some of the above costs are not exact and that some of the items are currently unavailable, but this is a project in the making! Once it is completed, there will be a demonstration on the use of these tools and some discussion on the importance of the information gathered at a monthly Hi-Lakers meeting. These items will be available at most meetings.

Thank you for your time. You may contact me at lakerfinder@comcast.net with questions and mail orders.

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Survey Reporter by BILL HENKEL 2009 Survey Program Chair

Included in this newsletter is the 2009 Hi-Lakers Check-out Lakes List. The list this year has 58 lakes, up from last year’s 55. There are 31 lakes being carried forward this year and 27 new ones. Of the 55 lakes listed in 2008, 20 (36%) were done. This is pretty consistent with past years.

A big change this year is that Mark Downen, our past Whatcom and Skagit counties fish biologist, is now the Eastern Olympics fish biologist, so we will have no official survey requests for those counties. Luckily, Rex Johnson is still on board with his stunted trout lakes and there are three new stunted trout lakes added to last year’s list for a total of 17. This is important work by Rex Johnson and Brian Curtis to catalog all of the stunted trout lakes in the state; these lakes are preceded by an * in the name. Tomy-hoi Lake still holds our attention; does it still have stunted brookies, or has the problem been corrected by big fat brown trout?

It’s a long and now expensive drive up to Okanogan County, so it’s good that Bob Jateff, Okanogan biologist has only three lakes for this year. Only Lamont is held over from last year. These are all lakes that were planted several years ago. We need to know how the plants took and to see if we need to put them back on the restocking list. Slate was planted with Cutthroat and Rampart with Goldens in 2002. Lamont was planted with Goldens in 2004.

John Weinheimer, Lewis and Skamania counties biolo-gist still needs surveys for the Golden trout in St. Johns and St. Michael Lakes. He has also given us a number of lakes in the Indian Heaven Wilderness. The Indian Heaven Wilderness Lakes have always been known for their large brook trout. The Basin lakes (Basin #4, Darlene, Della, Janet, and Peggy) all are possible in one trip. They have been planted with Triploid Brook Trout. And for you Peninsula guys, the Satsops in Grays Harbor County are an unknown mixture of Brooks, Westslopes and Rain-bows. How about someone making a determination!

Eric Anderson, Kittitas and Yakima counties biologist still needs data on last year’s lakes, so no new lakes this year. In fact, two of his lakes, Opal and Swamp have been on the lists so long that they will be published this year as Lonesome Lakes. The reason to have these lakes surveyed is to simply find out more about them! (E.g., species, size range, condition, carryover, natural reproduction, prey abundance, insects, etc…) Opal has no surveys on record. The Chelan county lakes that were not done last year are forwarded to this year’s list. A project to plant tiger trout in the stunted Brook Trout Merritt Lake is moving forward and we will need extensive surveys for this. If you are in-terested in helping, gimme a call.

We did all of Mike Scharpf’s, Pierce County biologist, lakes last year. In retaliation, he has given us five new lakes. Elizabeth has no surveys since 2002, but is on the stocking list for this year. Forest Lake is to be an experi-mental Salmonid predator lake; it has an abundance of goldfish. Tiger trout are slated to be planted, but we would like to know if the present rainbows are able to feed on these slower food fish. We need stomach contents for any trout that you may catch. We also need to be able to measure the goldfish population; anyone good at this? Greenwater lakes were last surveyed in 2003 with no fish reported. They had a reputation for large Brookies. Morge Lakes have no surveys at all on record but were last plant-ed in 1993 with cutthroat. Summit Lake was last surveyed in 2006 when Rainbow were reported. The stocking his-tory shows the last RB plant was in 1969 and the last CT plant was 1972. We need more information on the natural reproduction.

Good surveying this year, Bill Henkel, Survey Chairman.

2009 Hi-Lakers Checkout Lakes List

LAKE NAME COORDINATES ACRES ELEV

CLALLAM COUNTY*Deer (1) T28N_R09E_14-J/R 8.4 3525

*Long T28N_R08W_19-N1/2 15.0 3850

JEFFERSON COUNTY

*Constance T26N_R04W_13-D 11.0 4750

GRAYS HARBOR CO.Satsop Lake #1 T22N_R07W_1B 4.0 2216

Satsop Lake #2 T22N_R07W_1J 3.0 2218

Satsop Lake #3 T22N_R07W_2R 1.5 1672

Satsop Lake #4 T22N_R07W_11A 2.0 1578

Satsop Lake #5 T22N_R07W_11H 3.0 1549

WHATCOM COUNTY*Tomyhoi T40N_R09E_6-Q 82.0 3700

*Twin, Lower T40N_R09E_16-Q/R 20.0 5180

*Twin, Upper T40N_R09E_16-J 17.0 5200

SNOHOMISH CO.*East Boardman T29N_R09E_9M/N 24.7 3370

*Goat T29N_R11E_11C 64.0 3154

*Lower Twin T28N_R11E_3A/B 24.5 4700

*Saucer T27N_R13E_16L/M 13.8 4500

PIERCE COUNTYElizabeth T17N_R10E_35A 4.0 5900

Forest T19N_R10E_34J 3.3 3949

Lower Greenwater T19N_R11E_31K 3.9 2780

Upper Greenwater T19N_R11E_31R 6.2 2846

Morge Lakes (3) T15N_R06E_12J/K 2+/- 4400

Summit Lake T18N_R08E_19A 24.9 5440

LEWIS COUNTYSt Johns T11N_R10E_6L 3.0 5100

St Michaels T11N_R09E_1Q 9.0 4750

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SKAMANIA COUNTYBasin #4 T06N_RO8E_28N 1.0 4260

Bear T06N_R08E_10L/P 8.0 4750

Clear T06N_R08E_10G/H 13.0 4800

Darlene T06N_RO8E_28L/P 2.0 4250

Deep T06N_R08E_2P 6.0 4950

Deep T10N_R05E_1J 3.0 3963

Della T06N_RO8E_20K 1.0 4220

Janet T06N_RO8E_28N 2.0 4240

Peggy T06N_RO8E_29J/R 2.5 4200

Placid T06N_R08E_4D 19.2 4000

Tombstone T06N_R08E_27Q 2.5 4600

Wapiki T06N_R08E_12L 10.0 4700

Wood T07N_R08E_34K 12.5 5000

OKANOGAN COUNTYLamont T35N_R19E_31 4.8 7200

Rampart T38N_R19E_2 10.8 6800

Slate T34N_R19E_15 6.4 6400

CHELAN COUNTYCara T24N_R16E_16F 1.7 6920

*Grass T25N_R13E_12-B/C 2.0 3580

Ida T25N_R16E_28F/L 16.1 6761

*Knox T25N_R16E_5-E/M 6.6 6300

*Leonard, Upper T24N_R15E_36-E 1.3 6909

*Lyman T31N_R16E_7-P/Q 75.7 5887

Merrit T27N_R15E_25R 7.0 5000

MR-16 T33N_R18E_6E 4.4 6000

*Rat Creek Pond T23N_R17E_6-L 0.7 6260

*Ruth T24N_R16E_16D 2.5 6000

Star T32N_R19E_23P 1.8 7173

Swallow,#3 T25N_R13E_34A 2.8 5582

Trout T24N_R15E_24H 16.9 4850

Unnamed T24N_R14E_36B 1.9 6020

Windy T24N_R16E_20A 1.8 6980

KITTITAS COUNTY

Opal T23N_R14E_27F/L 1.1 5990

*Shovel T24N_R13E_27-L/P 27.2 4000

YAKIMA COUNTY

Crag, Upper T15N_R11E_21Q 4.8 5020

Swamp T16N_R11E_33K/L 51.2 4797

* contains stunted trout

Winter Social continued.

to be a unique vintage. Don Can-non manned the coffee pots and was kind enough to provide cof-fee that he roasted himself. Mike Ward also did a great job as master of ceremonies for the evening.

This event couldn't happen without all the people who were so willing to pitch in. Thank you all for your help!

Also, a special thanks to Michael Mitchell for his time and effort toward making the evening a success.

If you missed this one, I’d suggest marking your calendar for next year. It’s a great opportunity to hang out with a bunch of fun people, win some prizes, hear some tall tales, and eat some really

good food. I hope to see you all there.

Raffle donors:Handmade Quilt–Cheryl SmithMarmot Sleeping Bag–Anonymous

Silent auction donors: Hennessy Hammock–Ann Hennessy c/o Don WicklundLeatherman Tool& Milwaukee digital inspection tool– Greg Hartje/Ballard HardwareFly Shadow Box–Rich O’ConnellFly Tying Kit–Pat WhitePhoto Contest Framed Print–Ken Masel

WANTEDYour attendance at the

HI-LAKER’S SUMMER PICNIC

& GEAR SWAPJuly 15 @ 6:30 p.m.

NEWCASTLE BEACH PARKBring your spinning and fly rods for the

casting contests—both accuracy & distance.Bring any gear you’d like to swap, sell or just show off.

BYOB—The Hi-Lakers will provide all the food including burgers & dogs. Per the City of Bellevue: No Alcoholic Beverages • No Dogs or Pets

From I-405 North or South:Take Exit 9 and head West towards the lakeGo Right on Lake Washington Boulevard SE and follow to the ParkActivities will take place at the covered picnic shelter on the North side of the Park

Newcastle Beach Park

Exit 9

Please RSVP to Eric Junes by July 13 at dangerboy@comcast.net or (206) 293-3688

The Washington State Hi-Lakersc/o Ken Masel125 118th Drive NELake Stevens, WA 98258