[4] The lake offers fishing for brown trout, rainbow trout., Kokanee, and Atlantic Salmon.

[5] East Lake is one of the finest and most traditional fisheries in Oregon, regularly producing brown trout over 10 pounds.

[5] The early 1920s marked the first documented occurrence of tui chub (Gila Siphateles), a non-native cyprinid species, in East Lake.

[6] The method of introduction was most likely the release or loss of these fish as a result of live bait fisheries.

[7] The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has used an ongoing two-prong approach to try to reduce and control tui chub numbers: trapping and removing tui chub when they gather on the shallow spawning grounds in the early summer, and introducing a top-tier predator, Blackwater trout, (a Canadian strain of rainbow trout) that will eat tui chub.