For all of the above reasons, at the height of deer season from the late 1940's until 1960 Chopaka Mountain would typically be populated by representatives of six Doyle families, from 15 to thirty people, and maybe one other party. When I asked once about possible fishing I was told, in addition to the lake being closed, that it was reputed to contain "a few monstrous cutthroat". I pondered that phrase for several years whenever I wandered over in that direction. And thus the news rippled through my family in 1960 that a new "car" road was being built into Chopaka Lake ("you can take your goddammned house trailer in, for christ's sake"), and the game department had stocked it with rainbow trout, and it was going to open for fishing for the first time in more than 20 years. A springtime reason for going to Chopaka was welcomed, and we all had to see this new road, with mixed feelings. To be continued. Trump Doyle, McKenzie Flyfishers, September 1989
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