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[RalphH]

Rod mentioned above they don't publish the stocking schedule. It's kept pretty hush to prevent the proverbial traffic jam behind the hatchery truck.

I think if you look at the dates for each year you can see:

1) Hicks and Whonnock are each stocked once a year

2) Whonnock is stocked earlier than Hicks. It's a lower elavation lake and it's smaller. It will be warmer than Hicks at any given date in the spring

3) Hicks is stocked 2 to 3 weeks after Whonnock.

This should give you some idea when to watch for stocking of each.

Make sense?

Cheers

[Rodney]

I don't really have much more inside intel at the moment actually. All I can say is that they'll get stocked in April and May like they usually do.

Hicks doesn't really need any stocking for it to produce well. We were there yesterday with the kids and had a great time. They caught about two dozen fish and we probably only fished for about 1.5 hours.

[essyoo]

Awesome, thanks Rod! I've not had a lot of luck at Hicks but I do love that spot and want to figure it out this spring. Good excuse to get the boat in shape this weekend I guess.

[RalphH]

Whonnock was stocked yesterday. Better rush out there before they are all gone!

[Rodney]

[Rodney]

[Rodney]

Hicks and Deer at Sasquatch Provincial Park were stocked a couple of days ago.

[Rodney]

[Rodney]

Lafarge, Como, Green Timbers and Rice each got another 1,000 fish yesterday.

[Rodney]

[coastangler]

Last week I was fly fishing @ Rice lake and all of a sudden the Fisheries BC truck with 1000 trout came around and I was lucky enough to be there along with another couple of angler and we got see how they stocked the lake. Fisheries staff mentioned that the water was cold enough for the trout to bite (otherwise it may take them a few days to adapt) and rightly enough, it was an epic day. Pretty cool to see schools of 20 trout chasing your flies. Never had a double digit day at Rice Lake (for me 1-2 trout there means a very good day) so cannot complain!

Staff also mentioned that to avoid poaching, they avoid sharing when they plan to stock and also there is a some delay on them posting the reports online. Just keep this in mind as if you suspect a lake may be stocked in a given week, don't wait for the report, just hit the lake and you may get rewarded!!

Adding a couple of shots of trout I caught. You can see the difference between the first one (caught before the stocking, was probably in the lake for a while) and the second one, much darker and slightly bigger that came straight from the hatchery.