While I haven't fished Gibbs in years, I do know that in the past Gibbs used to have one hell of a population of small mouth bass. Last time I fished it it was a private lake owned by the Chief Sealth Council of the Boy Scouts before they sold it under the table to Manke Logging out of Tacoma.

I haven't been to Gibbs in years fishing even though we own property within a mile of Gibbs, but the last time I was there there was a very healthy bass population.

When Cher and her husband were living on the lake they would buy and plant a couple hundred trout every year.

Up until the time the County traded Manke county land for the Gibbs Property for a County Park WDFW kept their noses out of the management of the fishery on the lake and it was thriving. Now that it's out of private ownership and in the public sector I don't know how the fishery is.

A couple of years ago WDFW planted fish in a number of the little lakes in the Thornedyke area south of Hwy 104 at the Hwy 19 Junction on Pope Land without letting Pope Resources know and then opened the lakes up to a year round fishery, only problem is Pope keeps the gates locked and you can't get to the lakes.