Mosquito Lake

Region

Kootenays

Management unit

MU 4-32

Species

Rainbow Trout, Mountain Whitefish (last recorded 1995), Largescale Sucker (last recorded 1995), Northern Pikeminnow (last recorded 1995), Peamouth Chub (last recorded 1995)The newest of these fish records is from 2004.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Medium Lake (50 - 500 ha)

Coordinates

50.318284, -118.06033

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 Mosquito Lake yet.

87.2 km of traced road to the campground by way of Whatshan FSR, S Fife One FSR, Keefer Lake Rd, Kettle River Bridge and unsigned. The road at the end is a loose surface. It stops 60 m short of the campground.

Coordinates: 50.318284, -118.06033

Camping and rec sites at Mosquito Lake

• Mosquito Lake

  Campsites

  3 designated

  To the shore

  43 m

  
  Access: Access from Arrow Park Ferry: At the ferry terminus set your odometer. Your odometer readings will not conform to the km signs on the road. From the ferry terminus travel straight ahead on the "Lower Mosquito Road". Continue up this road for 6 km. Just after crossing the bridge over Arrow Park (Mosquito) Creek, turn right onto the "Branch 20" road. Follow this road for 3 km. At the junction with the "West Mosquito Road" continue straight ahead. Reset your odometer. Travel north on the "West Mosquito Road" for 11.6 km, to the "27 km" road marker and the junction of the "West Mosquito Road" with the "Caribou Pass Road" and the "Fostall Road". Reset your odometer. Continue straight ahead on the "Fostall Road" for 8.9 km. Between the "19 km" and "20 km" road markers, at the junction with "Plant Road", turn left. Travel 800 meters to the recreation site.
  Coordinates: 50.333021, -118.065139

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

26.5 mdeepest9.5 mmean

Mosquito Lake runs to 26.5 m (87 ft) at its deepest, by the Province survey, 1981.

The mean of 9.5 m (31 ft) is read off the same chart, surveyed in March 1994.

The Province sounded Mosquito Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1994.

• Depth chart (PDF)

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

In the model Mosquito Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 11 November and 2 December, and ice-off between 22 March and 12 April. The median winter freezes on 21 November and opens on 1 April.

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

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 17 January 2025 to 6 March 2025, 48 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Mosquito 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 Mosquito Lake is 1.1 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +1.1 Csince the 1960s
• 7.9 Caverage year now
• 6.8 Caverage year then
• -17 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Mosquito Lake in the app

• Little Mosquito Lake 2 km away
• Cameron Lake 4 km away
• Larson Lake 5 km away
• South Caribou Lake 11 km away
• Catherine Lake 12 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