Cranberry Lake near Yennadon: Fishing Spots, Seasons and Access

• Overview

  Set in Metro Vancouver Regional District, Cranberry Lake is a British Columbia water. The water sits 162 metres up. A splashy cast here empties the swim; a quiet one owns it. Our Metro Vancouver Regional District list holds plenty of bigger water. You are 6.4 km from Yennadon. For a city, Coquitlam is 13 km off. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Cranberry Lake

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Reported across Metro Vancouver Regional District: white sturgeon, Coho salmon and sockeye salmon. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Work Cranberry Lake in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is 2°C to 18°C. The year never really closes; it just gets uncomfortable in summer. The first and last hours carry the summer; the middle is slow. The cooler months are the comfortable ones to fish here. Anyone fishing Cranberry Lake regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. Parking within 300 m means no long carry with tackle. A pier 510 m from here gives a platform over deeper water. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Goose Lake, 0.7 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Rules at Cranberry Lake are worth checking on the day.