Fishing Stump Lake in Cariboo Regional District, British Columbia

• Overview

  In British Columbia, Stump Lake falls inside Cariboo Regional District. Height above sea level is 835 metres. At about 29 hectares, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. The whole outline is near 3.7 km, and most of it is walkable. You are 73 km from Quesnel. The big place round here is Kamloops, 338 km distant. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Stump Lake

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Records held for Cariboo Regional District cover sockeye salmon, Chinook salmon, bull trout, Coho salmon and longnose sucker. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. On Stump Lake the quiet end is the one worth the extra effort.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 14°C; the cold one sits at -11°C. Winter shuts things down for a spell, then spring reopens them fast. The lid usually sets by midwinter and gives way around mid April. Ice clears near mid April and comes back about mid November in a typical year. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. Expect Stump Lake to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Nothing is listed nearby for parking or launching a boat. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Bank access can be seasonal on ground like this. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. For a change of water, Marmot Lake is 1.8 km distant. Where Stump Lake is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.