Re: Ebey Lake

[Thomas L Bruner]

Ahhhhh so the secret is out.   Ebey lake is a nice place and I always liked the fact that the first gate was there (a lot less traffic) but it seems that a church group of some sort has bought the land.  I did not know about the new gate, that must have happened over the winter.   I have inquired about this lake a few times and there was very little information available.   The gate is a shame, I always wanted to contact the folks who bought the land and inquire if they would be interested in renting the lake to a group of flyfishermen.  The lake serves no purpose to anyone else due to its remote, shallow and muddy nature.  There is no beach. So if a group leased it they could stock and manage a little fly fishing lake in Western Washington within an hour of Seattle.     Perhaps I will try to look into it further.     -----Original Message----- From: Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:54 AM Subject: Re: Ebey Lake Perhaps you could find out who the owners of the nearby land is and see if you can make a case for them to continue letting you use the road and fishing there... Some landowners can be sympathetic to flyfishermen... The stuff is public domain I think, but I'm not sure where you'd go to find the information.  I'm sure somebody knows. Good luck. matthew! > I don't know how many of you have fished Ebey Lake, it's a small, > year-round, flyfishing-only lake on the top of Ebey Hill just east of > Arlington.  Several years ago the state DNR (which manages the mostly > cut-over lands at the top of the hill) put in a locked gate at the > edge of the DNR land, necessitating a two-mile walk on a logging road > to get to the lake, though there was a spur that turned off before the ---------------------------------        Matthew W. Kaphan          Bremerton, WA     [EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://members.home.net/mwk73