Humamilt Lake

Region

Thompson-Nicola

Management unit

MU 3-36

Species

Dolly Varden (last recorded 1995), Bull Trout (last recorded 1981), Mountain Whitefish (last recorded 1981), Rainbow Trout (last recorded 1981), Largescale Sucker (last recorded 1994), Northern Pikeminnow (last recorded 1994), Lake Chub (last recorded 1981), Ninespine Stickleback (last recorded 1981), Peamouth Chub (last recorded 1981), Sucker (General) (last recorded 1981)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

51.289149, -119.144677

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 Humamilt Lake yet.

Coordinates: 51.289149, -119.144677

Camping and rec sites at Humamilt Lake

• Humamilt Lake East

  Campsites

  2 designated

  To the shore

  11 m

  
  Access: Turn off the Trans Canada Highway at Scotch Creek and continue past the town of St. Ives and onto Seymour Arm Main forest service road. Follow for 32km then watch for a junction shortly after Albas provincial park. Reset your odometer at the junction and turn left onto the secondary forest service road. At 6.5km there is a Y junction, take the left fork and immediately cross a bridge. Continue to the rec site at 10km on your odometer.
  Coordinates: 51.295348, -119.026118

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

• Humamilt Lake North

  To the shore

  1 m

  
  No campsite count on file (BC Recreation Sites and Trails)
  Coordinates: 51.301459, -119.052168
• Humamilt Lake West

  Campsites

  6 designated

  To the shore

  95 m

  
  Coordinates: 51.296093, -119.17165

47 mdeepest16 mmean

Humamilt Lake runs to 47 m (154 ft) at its deepest, by the Province survey, 1982.

The mean of 16 m (52 ft) is read off the same chart, surveyed in July 1982.

The Province sounded Humamilt Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1982. It runs to 3 sheets.

• Depth chart 1 OF 3 (PDF)
• Depth chart 2 OF 3 (PDF)
• Depth chart 3 OF 3 (PDF)

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

In the model Humamilt Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 10 November and 26 November, and ice-off between 21 March and 14 April. The median winter freezes on 20 November and opens on 2 April.

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

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 18 November 2024 to 9 March 2025, 111 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Humamilt 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 Humamilt 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
• 2.2 Caverage year now
• 1.3 Caverage year then
• -5 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Humamilt Lake in the app

• Stukemapten Lake 7 km away
• Third Momich Lake 12 km away
• Nellie Lake 13 km away
• Momich Lake 13 km away
• Grizzly Lake 15 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