One might also ask, "Why would anyone.....anyone....choose to get pike, transport them across many states, to plant them, in all places, in Crocker Lake? Crocker Lake?, you kiddin' me? A mud bottom, shallow, nothing of a lake? Makes no sense for any individual to do such a thing, IMO.

Any way, the poisoning of the lake, was botched as well and the rotenone got into the creek and killed many fish of all varieties far down from the lake outlet. Again the results were downplayed, and likely would not have been revealed at all except that a land owner, no, it was not me, called in the press and caught some of the results.

The end result has been, after a "public meeting"..one of which I was very verbally present...was that the WDFW aquired a private rearing pond, which has been quite successful in nurturing young salmon. Too bad the whole thing wasn't just handled in a wide open, "this is what we want to do" fashion. Would have left a lot of folks much more receptive to the idea and increased the trustworthiness of an outfit that certainly could use it. There are few things I hate more than "sneaky". Done.