Fishing
Anyone can fish in Crater Lake from Cleetwood Cove or Wizard Island; no license is required.
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Fishing Details
Anyone can fish in Crater Lake from Cleetwood Cove or Wizard Island; no license is required. Anglers are only allowed to use artificial lures and flies, but there is no catch limit. Cleetwood Cove is accessible via the steep, strenuous Cleetwood Cove Trail, the only access trail to the lakeshore. To get to Wizard Island, you can join a boat tour, which depart from Cleetwood Cove. Fish are not native to Crater Lake, which was created in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption and filled entirely with rainwater and snowmelt. William Gladstone Steel, the man who petitioned for Crater Lake to become a National Park, stocked it with six types of fish in 1888. Of these, only Rainbow Trout and Kokanee Salmon remain.
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