Purdy Lake Fishing Guide, North Coast Regional District, British Columbia

• Overview

  Purdy Lake is a North Coast Regional District water, in British Columbia. Height above sea level is 26 metres. Surface area runs to about 5 hectares — small enough to read in one session. On size it sits at the modest end of our North Coast Regional District list. The town to know is Prince Rupert, 97 km out. Vancouver sits 797 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Purdy Lake

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Survey and observation records for North Coast Regional District include pink salmon, Coho salmon and Chum salmon. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. On Purdy Lake the obvious spot is not always the productive one.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Average temperature peaks around 14°C in August and bottoms out near 1°C in January. Fishing continues through most of the calendar, with quiet spells rather than closures. In a normal year the cover is thin and short-lived. Late winter often fishes better here than midsummer does. On Purdy Lake the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Our records carry no access rule either way. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Read any posted signs at the access point rather than assuming. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. For a change of water, Cygnet Lake is 0.8 km distant. Treat Purdy Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.