Blue Fox Camp started as a logging camp in the early part of the last century. In the 1940's, trout were introduced to the Blue Lake area in 1944 by Vic Rutledge, who was one of the first to realise the recreational potential there. Vic carried several dozen rainbow trout fingerlings from the Ganaraska Trout Farm in milk cans along the 27 kilometre Blue Lake Trail. After stopping every hour at spring or creeks to replenish the water supply, Rutledge managed to get the fish in and release them into Blue Lake. By the end of that decade, they'd moved upstream from Blue Lake into Robb, Townline, Elbow and White Bear Lakes, and downstream into Dougall and Endikai lakes. Lake trout and brook trout were stocked later, and all three species established naturalised populations throughout the area. There has been no stocking of the major naturalised waters since the late 1950s and the mix of lake trout, rainbow trout and brook trout has been recognized as the province's only self-sustaining inland three-species trout system. Each of the three species has developed into a unique strain often unlike any others seen in Ontario. The rainbows are loaded with black spots over their entire bodies–similar to those of Alaska. They are robust fish, with tremendous splashes of burgundy, hot pink and olive-green. The lakers are also heavily spotted and a dusky bronze, sometimes fading to bluish-grey. The brook trout are stocky, tough fighters and an array of orange-red colours when caught in the fall.