Fishing near Mazama, WA

Mazama sits in the upper Methow Valley in Okanogan County, at the edge of the North Cascades. Fishing here is high-country work: the lakes near town — Cutthroat Lake, Dot Lakes, Middle Hidden Lake, Ferguson Lake, and Fawn Lake — are subalpine stillwaters reached by trail, not boat ramp. Mazama Lake itself, a 1.6-acre tarn at 4,708 feet, holds Eastern Brook Trout. The Methow River and its tributaries, including the Chewuch and Lost River drainage, run through the valley, though regulations on these waters are complex due to endangered steelhead and salmon.