Lower Little Slocan Lake

Region

Kootenays

Management unit

MU 4-16

Species

Brook Trout (last recorded 1995), Bull Trout (last recorded 1995), Kokanee (last recorded 1995), Pygmy Whitefish (last recorded 1995), Rainbow Trout (last recorded 1995), Largescale Sucker (last recorded 1995), Northern Pikeminnow (last recorded 1995), Peamouth Chub (last recorded 1995), Redside Shiner (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

49.642518, -117.688933

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 Lower Little Slocan Lake yet.

27.4 km of traced road to the campground by way of Little Slocan Main FSR, Little Slocan South Rd, Slocan River Rd, Winlaw Bridge Rd and Cedar Creek Rd. The road at the end is a loose surface. It stops 410 m short of the campground.

Coordinates: 49.642518, -117.688933

Camping and rec sites at Lower Little Slocan Lake

• Little Slocan

  Campsites

  6 designated

  To the shore

  36 m

  
  Access: The most popular access to Little Slocan Lakes campsite is from Passmore along Highway 6. As you drive through Passmmore heading north turn left off of the highway onto Passmore Upper Road. Cross the river and follow the road for 3.7 km. Turn left onto the Little Slocan Forest Service Rd.. Stay on the main road for approx 21 km to the recreation site on your right.
  Coordinates: 49.645537, -117.682843

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

18.3 mdeepest6.6 mmean

Lower Little Slocan Lake runs to 18.3 m (60 ft) at its deepest, by the Province survey, 1980.

The mean of 6.6 m (21 ft) is read off the same chart, surveyed in March 1980.

The Province sounded Lower Little Slocan 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 Lower Little Slocan Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 22 November and 13 December, and ice-off between 21 February and 27 March. The median winter freezes on 29 November and opens on 12 March.

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

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 16 January 2025 to 4 March 2025, 47 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Lower Little Slocan 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 Lower Little Slocan Lake is 0.7 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +0.7 Csince the 1960s
• -2.3 Caverage year now
• -3.1 Caverage year then
• -8 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Lower Little Slocan Lake in the app

• Cooley Lake 17 km away
• Beatrice Lake 27 km away
• Sasquatch Lake 28 km away
• Six Mile Lakes 29 km away
• Lower Arrow Lake 34 km away

All 162 lakes in the Kootenays, 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