Pacific Lake now stocked with 10,000 rainbow trout

Pacific Lake, just a few miles from Odessa, has once again filled with water after a wet winter and spring in eastern Washington, as reported recently in The Odessa Record. Now local fishermen are on the scene, following stocking of the lake with about 10,000 rainbow trout, each 9 to 10 inches long, according to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department.

The Department expects the fishing to be very good in a short while, as the grasses that have been growing in the formerly dry lake bed would provide plenty of nutrients for the fish that have now been stocked there.

Last week, Odessa’s seco...