Best Fishing in Washington

Lake Chelan is stocked with more than 82,000 westslope cutthroat trout by early summer each year, providing yet another great sport fish in this excellent fishing lake.

Well over 150,00 jumbo-sized trout (80 tons!) will be stocked into Washington state waters this year. Here are the lakes that get the most.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife stocks Mayfield Lake with 72,000 keeper trout every spring and summer.

Washington’s Lake Whatcom is once again being stocked with more than 4 million juvenile kokanee salmon.