November 13, 2025 8:03 am
Environment, Outdoors 
A father and son team try their luck in Icehouse Lake. It was stocked recently with 2,000 rainbow trout and is fishing well. (Terry Otto for The Columbian)
This fine rainbow trout fell for a yellow spinner. Thousands of rainbow trout, including some trophy-size fish, are being released into local lakes this season. (Terry Otto for The Columbian)
These rainbow trout from Icehouse Lake fell for a yellow Rooster Tail spinner. Thousands of rainbow trout, including some trophy-size fish, are being released into local lakes this season. (Terry Otto for The Columbian)
Blake Minster with a pair of trout caught recently in Icehouse Lake in the Columbia River Gorge. He eventually took home a limit by fishing Powerbait on the bottom. (Terry Otto for The Columbian)
Icehouse Lake, located at the Washington end of the Bridge of the Gods at Cascade Locks, was empty. The fisher folks that usually line up along the Highway 14 shore were nowhere to be seen.
Checking the WDFW trout stockings page, the lake had been stocked just a couple weeks ago with 2,000 catchable rainbow trout. That kind of stocking usually brings a lot of anglers, many with their families in tow, to the kid-friendly lake. This day I had the lake to myself.
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