Rice Lake (North Vancouver)

Region

Lower Mainland

Management unit

MU 2-8

Species

Rainbow Trout, Cutthroat Trout (last recorded 1990), Cutthroat Trout (Anadromous) (last recorded 1985), Steelhead (last recorded 1992)The newest of these fish records is from 2026.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Small Water (< 50 ha)

Ice fishing

Open to ice fishing, confirmed

Coordinates

49.3556, -123.0139

Small rainbow trout in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. Fishing with Rod says the fish are no heavier than 1 lb, so light spinners and spoons under an eighth of an ounce work best.

• Rainbow Trout
  Typically no heavier than 1 lb
  Source: Fishing with Rod

Spinners and spoons lighter than an eighth of an ounce work best. Source: Fishing with Rod

The rule that shapes it. Trout/char daily quota = 2; wheelchair accessible: excellent path system; see gate attendant for access. Source: Province of British Columbia

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

Best times of year at Rice Lake (North Vancouver)

• May - June
• September - October

4.0 km of traced road to the shore by way of Lillooet Rd, Monashee Dr, Tantalus Rd and Skeena Rd. The road at the end is a loose surface. It stops 340 m short of the shore.

Coordinates: 49.3556, -123.0139

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

In the model Rice Lake (North Vancouver) froze in 56 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 17 December and 13 January, and ice-off between 11 January and 21 February. The median winter freezes on 29 December and opens on 27 January.

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

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 23 January 2025 to 23 February 2025, 31 days.

Rice Lake (North Vancouver) 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 Rice Lake (North Vancouver) 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
• 10.3 Caverage year now
• 9.6 Caverage year then
• -6 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Rice Lake (North Vancouver) in the app

• Sasamat Lake 10 km away
• Buntzen Lake 12 km away
• Burnaby Lake 13 km away
• Deer Lake (Burnaby) 14 km away
• Como Lake 16 km away

All 133 lakes in the Lower Mainland, 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