Osoyoos Lake

Region

Okanagan

Management unit

MU 8-1

Species

Smallmouth Bass, Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, White Sturgeon, Yellow Perch, Kokanee (last recorded 1995), Mountain Whitefish (last recorded 1995), Lake Whitefish (last recorded 1995), Sockeye Salmon, Steelhead (last recorded 1995), Floater Mussel (General), Western Ridged Mussel, Northern Pikeminnow, Prickly Sculpin, Pumpkinseed, Sculpin (General), Bullhead (General), Bass/Sunfish (General), Brown Catfish (formerly Brown Bullhead), Black Catfish (formerly Black Bullhead), Western Floater Mussel, Winged Floater Mussel, Black Crappie, Carp, Goldfish (last recorded 1995), Largescale Sucker (last recorded 1995), Western Pearlshell Mussel (last recorded 1954)The newest of these fish records is from 2019.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Large Water (> 500 ha)

Ice fishing

Open to ice fishing, confirmed

Coordinates

49.0442, -119.4583

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

Best times of year at Osoyoos Lake

• May - June
• September - October

1.1 km of traced road to the shore by way of Spartan Dr, 92nd Ave and Royal Ann Crt. The road at the end is a loose surface. It stops 600 m short of the shore.

Coordinates: 49.0442, -119.4583

63.4 mdeepest

Osoyoos Lake runs to 63.4 m (208 ft) at its deepest.

The Province sounded Osoyoos Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1966. It runs to 3 sheets.

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

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

In the model Osoyoos Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 24 November and 17 December, and ice-off between 7 February and 11 March. The median winter freezes on 3 December and opens on 24 February.

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 27 February 2025, 41 days.

Osoyoos Lake is open to ice fishing under the regulations on file.

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 Osoyoos Lake is 1.7 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +1.7 Csince the 1960s
• 9.1 Caverage year now
• 7.4 Caverage year then
• -19 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Osoyoos Lake in the app

• Tugulnuit (Tuc-el-nuit) Lake 18 km away
• Burnell (Sawmill) Lake 22 km away
• Gallagher Lake 22 km away
• Madden Lake 24 km away
• Ripley Lake 25 km away

All 212 lakes in the Okanagan, 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