Hatheume Lake

Region

Thompson-Nicola

Management unit

MU 3-12

Species

Rainbow Trout, Prickly Sculpin (last recorded 1980)The newest of these fish records is from 2026.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Medium Lake (50 - 500 ha)

Catch and release

Yes

Ice fishing

Closed to ice fishing

Coordinates

49.9925, -120.0472

A high lake run as a fly fishing water. Rainbows are being caught in the 2 lb and up range and the resort calls them trophy fish. The provincial synopsis makes it artificial fly only, bait ban and single hook, two rainbows a day, no ice fishing and a 7.5 kW engine limit.

• Rainbow Trout Stocked
  Typically 2 lb and up
  Bigger fish: the resort describes the lake as populated with trophy rainbow trout
  At 1,402 m it fishes well into August, when lower lakes have gone quiet. BC Adventure describes it as catch and release, barbless and fly only; the synopsis sets artificial fly only and two rainbows a day.
  Sources: BC Adventure, Hatheume Lake Resort

The rule that shapes it. No Ice Fishing; rainbow trout daily quota = 2; artificial fly only, bait ban, single hook; Engine power restriction - 7.5 kW (10 hp). Source: Province of British Columbia

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

Pure fly fishing: chironomids, sedges, mayflies, floating line stealth presentations over shoals.

Best times of year at Hatheume Lake

• Late June - August (Prime summer fishery)
• September

Sunset Main / Okanagan Connector (Hwy 97C). Hatheume Lake Resort and forestry rec site.

52.6 km of traced road to the campground by way of Hatheume Lake Rd, Bear FSR, Jack Pine FSR and Glenrosa Rd. The road at the end is a loose surface.

Coordinates: 49.9925, -120.0472

Camping and rec sites at Hatheume Lake

• Hatheume Lake Northwest Recreation Site
  No campsite count on file (BC Recreation Sites and Trails)
  Access: Forestry Service Road (Okanagan Shuswap Natural Resource District)
• Hatheume Lake South

  Campsites

  12 designated

  To the shore

  24 m

  
  Coordinates: 49.986804, -120.043144

12 mdeepest5.4 mmean

Hatheume Lake runs to 12 m (39 ft) at its deepest, by the Province survey, 1980.

The mean of 5.4 m (18 ft) is read off the same chart, surveyed in July 1980.

The Province sounded Hatheume Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1980.

• Depth chart (PDF)

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

In the model Hatheume Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 29 October and 8 November, and ice-off between 13 May and 1 June. The median winter freezes on 5 November and opens on 24 May.

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

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 29 October 2024 to 4 May 2025, 187 days.

Hatheume Lake is closed to ice fishing.

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 Hatheume Lake is 0.9 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +0.9 Csince the 1960s
• 3.2 Caverage year now
• 2.3 Caverage year then
• -7 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Hatheume Lake in the app

• Pinnacle Lake 2 km away
• Rock Lake 5 km away
• Jackson Lake 5 km away
• Pennask Lake 6 km away
• Little Spahomin Lake Trail 8 km away

All 342 lakes in the Thompson-Nicola, 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