Lenice, Nunnally have new role

Once the darling of Washington fly fishers, Lenice and Nunnally lakes in the Crab Creek Wildlife Area east of Beverly are being managed differently nowadays to cope with booming numbers of sunfish.

The selective fisheries still should be good for stocked triploid rainbows and other catchable-size trout. Although the numbers of trout are down now that fry can no longer be stocked, the sizes can be large. Brown trout carryovers are longer than 20 inches, and a state-record tiger trout approaching 7 pounds was caught from Lenice in 2005.

Anglers must walk and carry their float tubes a half mile into Lenice.