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Camp Lake 



Location: Lews and Clark County, Lolo National Forest, Spread Mountain Quadrangle Montana 7.5 Minute Series (Topograptiical), TI7N RH WS32. 



IMi; From North Fork Blackfoot River Trailliead, take trail 161 McCatie-Lake Creek Trail (pack) west approximately 4 miles to Itte junctkm with trail 11404 Lake Otatsy Trail (pack). 



Head north on 11 404 approximately 3 miles to Lake Otatsy. At trail 11 6 Canyon Trail {pack)/Camp Pass-Camp Lake Trail (pack) fork (southern tip of Lake Otatsy) take the 

 westem fork to Camp Pass-Camp Lake. Follow for approximately 1 5 minutes past the northern end of Lake Otatsy. Trails are in good condition and well maintained. Rrst 

 4 miles are a k)w gradient climt) through a glacial valley. From the junctkxi to Lake Otatsy the trail gains 1000 leet in the first mile, through heavily twmed forest from 1988, 

 l)efore gradually leveling out and dropping into Lake Otatsy. Lake Otatsy to Camp Lake is an easy walk through thick lodgepole pme, sut)-alpine fir, and spruce forests. 



The Iran shown on map that connects Camp and Canyon Lakes has t)een decommisskmed. To access these two lakes you have to circumnavigate Lake Otatsy. 



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Acreage: 15.5 



Max Depth: I3.9feet _ ■ 



Usage; Ught _ . " 



Elevation: eieifeet 



Camp Sites: 1 marginal site near southemmost inlet on west shore. This site has not Ijeen used in a kmg time and is barely discemable. 



RshData; Camp Lake was last sampled on July 12-13, 2005 liy Montana Fish Wldlife and Parks. An overnight gillnet was set for a total duratkm of 14.5 hours. 1 6 rainliow trout were caught 



Fish sizes ranged from 5.9 inches to 1 3.8 inches and averaged 9 inches. No angling data was taken. 

 Historical 

 Rsh Data; On July I6, 1 968 this lake was surveyed Montana Department of Fish and Game, This suivey found, in a 24.5 hour ginet set, 26 rainbow trout ranging in 



length from 5.8 inches to 1Z4 inches and averaging 8.6 inches. 



Topography: The immediate shoreline is brushy and heavily timbered, but not steep. Surrounding topography is heavily timbered with lodgepole pine, sub-apline fir and spnjce forests and 

 is steep. Trail 116 runs about 20 feet above the northeast shoreline for the entire length of the lake. 



Notes: Camp Lake drains about 2 square miles of area phmarily through small springs and a couple of unnamed inlets. The outlet drains to the east to East Fork of Lake Creek 



which feeds into Lake Creek and then to the North Fork of the Blxkfoot River. The lake bottom is made up of thck mud and silt with patches of gravel in several areas. The 

 water is clear and has some vegetatkm growing in the eastern portion of the lake. WlkJife was observed throughout the area including a sighting of a Common Loon and 

 multiple families of Ring-Necked Ducks. 





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