Blue Lake
Blue Lake is stocked little and often. In 2025 WDFW logged 14 release dates spread over 7 months, about 1,363 fish per release date, the first on Feb 24, 2025 and the last on Nov 12, 2025.
WDFW data through Oct 30, 2026. Page updated .
Blue Lake in numbers
- catchable trout in 2025
- 19,079
- so far in 2026, through Oct 30
- 24,605
- 2025 against the 2015–2025 average of 21,691 a year
- −12%
2026 is running ahead of 2025: 24,605 fish through Oct 30, against 18,119 by the same date a year earlier. The latest batch, 2,015 rainbow trout, went in on Oct 15, 2026, 21 days before this page was built.
WDFW lists Blue Lake as 2.4 acres in Columbia County, at 2,143 ft. It is the smallest of the 4 Columbia County waters on this site. For its size it is stocked heavily: about 7,950 catchable trout per acre in 2025, the highest rate of the 37 waters on this site with a WDFW acreage.
Every release since January 2025
25 species-date records, newest first. Fish per lb is the figure WDFW reports for each batch.
Fish released each year
2025 is yellow. 2026 is outlined because the year is not over: the data runs to Oct 30, 2026. The busiest full year was 2018, with 17 release dates and 27,806 fish; the 2015–2025 average is 15.5 release dates a year.
How big are these fish?
- 4 to 8 oz
- 43,374 fish, 99%
- 1 to 2 lb
- 310 fish, 1%
Weight is 1 ÷ fish per lb, as WDFW reports it for each batch. It is a batch average, not a guarantee for any one fish. Counts cover every release since January 2025.
Notes from the records
The biggest single batch since January 2025 was 4,420 rainbow trout on Mar 31, 2026. The heaviest fish were 100 rainbow trout on May 30, 2025, at 0.7 per lb, about 1.4 lb each.
Timing shifts from year to year. Treat this as a pattern, not a promise.
Closest waters on this site
Straight-line distance between the map points WDFW gives for each water, not driving distance.
Also in Columbia County: Rainbow Lake, Spring Lake, Watson Lake.