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When I was a kid this lake was the best kept secret for large mouth bass and several varieties of trout. The 10-mile circumference lake had originally been developed for the mill to store logs. The water was dammed by a earthen dam at the base of two mountains where the Siletz River began its winding race to the Pacific.

Many young Pirates such as myself began our life on the water of this lake. Shop-built boats and backyard-made ramps were our first floating devices along with truck inner-tubes and anything else we could get to float. The lake was surrounded with many fishing holes with names that only locals could identify with; Green Timbers; Bait log; muddy banks; scaler shack; chip pile and the Gooseneck.

After Boise Cascade decided that our tribe should be dispursed and our homes were to be burned they decided on removing the dam. Today this what the old fishing holes look like. The present condition of the lake is equally as beautiful and is now the home of a roaming herd of Roosevelt elk.