Secret Lake

MU 3-30, Thompson-Nicola
51.2081° N, 120.5769° W

Surface area: 28.8ha
Elevation: 1,436m

Open Secret Lake in the appThe 7-day forecast, max depth and wildfire smoke check, on the lake's own coordinate.

Secret Lake at a glance

Region: Thompson-Nicola
Management unit: MU 3-30
Species: Kokanee, Rainbow Trout (last recorded 1992)
Lake size: Small Water (< 50 ha)
Ice fishing: Closed to ice fishing
Coordinates: 51.2081, -120.5769

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Fish on record at Secret Lake

Species in the Province's fish observation records
Species	First recorded	Last recorded	Records
Rainbow Trout	1992	1992	2

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

How to fish Secret Lake

Best times of year at Secret Lake

May - June
September - October

Secret Lake fishing regulations

We have no lake specific regulations on file for Secret Lake yet.

Getting to Secret Lake

45.3 km of traced road to the shore by way of Jamieson-Spruce Grove FSR, Powder FSR and Darlington FSR. The road at the end is a rough surface. It stops 1460 m short of the shore.

The route traced over the BC Digital Road Atlas. A trace is a line on a map, not a report on the road: check conditions before you drive it.

Coordinates: 51.2081, -120.5769

The ice year at Secret Lake, modelled

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

In the model Secret Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 26 October and 7 November, and ice-off between 15 May and 4 June. The median winter freezes on 31 October and opens on 26 May.

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

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 29 October 2024 to 10 May 2025, 193 days.

Secret Lake is closed to ice fishing.

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.

Secret Lake climate, 1960 to 2025

Averaged over a year, the air above Secret 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
4.1 Caverage year now
3.2 Caverage year then
-7 daysbelow freezing, change

Average year at Secret Lakedegrees C, yearly mean

each yearthe trend across 1960 to 2025

Days below freezingdays a year averaging under 0 C

each yearthe trend across 1960 to 2025

This week at Secret Lake

The forecast on this lake's own coordinate, refreshed through the day. The app reads these seven days for fishing and scores each one.

Day	Sky	High / low	Wind	Rain	Pressure
Tue 20 Oct	Clear sky	10° / -1°	16 km/h, gusts 31	dry	Steady
Wed 21 Oct	Overcast	13° / 4°	16 km/h, gusts 31	dry	Falling (-9.5 hPa)
Thu 22 Oct	Overcast	7° / -2°	18 km/h, gusts 41	dry	Rising (+2.3 hPa)
Fri 23 Oct	Overcast	3° / -3°	9 km/h, gusts 24	dry	Rising (+14.3 hPa)
Sat 24 Oct	Overcast	4° / -1°	10 km/h, gusts 19	dry	Falling (-2.5 hPa)
Sun 25 Oct	Partly cloudy	4° / -3°	8 km/h, gusts 23	dry	Rising (+5.3 hPa)
Mon 26 Oct	Overcast	7° / -1°	11 km/h, gusts 23	dry	Falling (-2.7 hPa)

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Trout lakes near Secret Lake

Bonaparte Lake 6 km away
Hammer Lake 10 km away
Lloyd Lake 11 km away
Mayson Lake 12 km away
Scot Lake 14 km away

All 342 lakes in the Thompson-Nicola, with today's conditions on each.