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Went camping on the weekend with friends to the Alice Lake campground. Fabulous sites! Booked solid though. We had pretty nice weather, although the wind was blowing pretty good. Does it always blow in Squamish? Anyway, Alice lake was really slow. No stocking can do that to a lake. Only one tiny cutty landed by our camping associate.

So we wandered over to Stump to give it a try. Not very much shore access, but we found a clearing and set up. Right away we had some action. Some monster hits, but we just couldn't make them stick. In fact we counted over 10 fish on, and 0 to the beach. It then shut down for a while. Our friends only had Campbell soup for dinner, so fish was on the menu, and so far the pressure was building, and he was going hungry.

We decided to try again later in the day, and seemed to have the same problem landing the fish. They would either pop off, or get wrapped around the various trees lying in the water. I guess that's why they call it Stump lake. Finally we landed one, and headed back to the campsite for dinner.

The next morning I headed out at 5am, and had no problem beaching 4, releasing 2 and losing 3, in a couple of hours. I headed back to the campground and alerted my friend and his wife about my success, and so they headed out. They got 5 between the 2 of them. I don't know why it was so hard the previous day, but it was good to see some come to shore for a change. I guess the pressure of catching dinner, reflects your ability to land fish. Not that relaxing either.

All and all, a great weekend. Beautiful scenery and some good fishing. We will definitely be headed back there again.

No pictures, sorry.

[cohoslayer1]

good report

[FlyFishin Magician]

Yes - I hit Stump Lake just over a month ago and did quite well.  Alice Lake was dead - just three small cutties landed.  Is it true that they're not going to stock Alice anymore?  That lake was aggressively stocked for a number of years...

[jettabambino]

i hope that this is not true... This was a great lake to fish in the past.... can anyone confirm or deny this?

[Rodney]

Alice Lake will not be stocked any further. It was sampled last fall and regional staff found a large number of naturally produced fish in the lake. Policy is generally not to stock on top of a naturally occuring population. In addition, there was some serious water quality concerns raised with Alice Lake. Bottom line it will not be stocked this year.

Best thing to do is to check the stocking data before choosing the lake you want to fish. I try to keep it as updated as possible, updates usually come in once every week.

[jettabambino]

would you not reccomend eating the fish from this lake then?

what sort of water quality problems did they have?

[troutbreath]

Eat one Alice laker per year. The fish that would have gone there went to Deer lake because it was fresher. 

[jettabambino]

lol...good one...


i am just surprised becasue it looked like a clean lake..... i havent been there in 5 years but it used to look real nice... hmmm

[Rodney]

Give the Fraser Valley Trout Hatchery a call, they can answer your questions further.

You are, after all, the users and payers of these fish, so your feedback is important.

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