Duck Lake

Region

Lower Mainland

Management unit

MU 2-12

Species

Cutthroat Trout (last recorded 1983), Kokanee (last recorded 1979), Coho Salmon (last recorded 1995), Prickly Sculpin (last recorded 1995), Sculpin (General) (last recorded 1995)The newest of these fish records is from 1995.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Medium Lake (50 - 500 ha)

Coordinates

49.852715, -124.443664

A year is when the Province last recorded the fish here, not a statement that it is caught today.

We have no lake specific regulations on file for Duck Lake yet.

8.3 km of traced road to the campground by way of Duck Lake FSR, E-100, E-112, E-110, E-115, Abbotsford St, Manson Ave and Alberni St. The road at the end is a loose surface.

Coordinates: 49.852715, -124.443664

Camping and rec sites at Duck Lake

• Duck Lake

  To the shore

  14 m

  
  No campsite count on file (BC Recreation Sites and Trails)
  Access: There are two different ways to approach Duck Lake. From Haslam Street, turn right at the first junction and set your odometer to 0. At the stop sign at 1.2km, turn right. At 5.9km, turn left across the bridge and stay left after bridge. The site is on the right at 6.2km (0.3km from bridge). You can also get to the site from Highway 101. Heading south from Powell River, turn right onto Duck Lake Road, approximately 9.5km from town. Set your odometer to 0. At 8.2km, turn right at the bridge then stay left. The site is located at 8.5km on the right.
  Coordinates: 49.849595, -124.443181

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

12.8 mdeepest

Duck Lake runs to 12.8 m (42 ft) at its deepest.

The Province sounded Duck Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1971.

• Depth chart (PDF)

Modelled from air temperature, not an ice report. It says nothing about whether ice will hold you.

In the model Duck Lake froze in 44 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 19 December and 17 January, and ice-off between 12 January and 13 February. The median winter freezes on 31 December and opens on 24 January.

the middle half of modelled winters the median ice cover in the median winter

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 2 February 2025 to 21 February 2025, 19 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Duck Lake either way. Check the current BC Freshwater Fishing Regulations Synopsis before you plan a trip.

Whether a lake is open to ice fishing says nothing about whether its ice will hold you. Ice conditions vary year to year and across a single lake. Check locally before going out, every time.

Averaged over a year, the air above Duck Lake is 0.8 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +0.8 Csince the 1960s
• 10.4 Caverage year now
• 9.6 Caverage year then
• -6 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Duck Lake in the app

• East Lake 5 km away
• Haslam Lake 7 km away
• Tony Lake 10 km away
• Inland Lake 11 km away
• Nanton Lake 11 km away

All 133 lakes in the Lower Mainland, with today's conditions on each.

• How the score works
• Depth, and where the trout are
• A year on a trout lake
• Fishing chironomids
• Reading a depth chart
• Trout and char of BC lakes
• Camping at rec site lakes
• Winterkill explained
• When the ice goes off