Stave Lake

Region

Lower Mainland

Management unit

MU 2-8

Species

Dolly Varden, Bull Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout (last recorded 1933), Kokanee, Rainbow Trout, Char, General, Cutthroat Trout (Anadromous), Brook Trout (last recorded 1916), Salmon (General), Sockeye Salmon (last recorded 1994), Atlantic Salmon (last recorded 1919), Largescale Sucker, Northern Pikeminnow, Peamouth Chub, Redside Shiner, Sculpin (General), Minnow (General), Prickly Sculpin, Brassy Minnow (last recorded 1994), Brown Catfish (formerly Brown Bullhead) (last recorded 1994), Bullhead (General) (last recorded 1994), River Lamprey (last recorded 1994), Stickleback (General) (last recorded 1994), Sucker (General) (last recorded 1994), Threespine Stickleback (last recorded 1994), Chub (General) (last recorded 1952), White Sucker (last recorded 1952)The newest of these fish records is from 2014.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Large Water (> 500 ha)

Coordinates

49.366086, -122.293294

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 Stave Lake yet.

17.0 km of traced road to the campground by way of Rocky Point FSR, Florence Lake FSR, Florence Lake Rd, Burma St and Dewdney Trunk Rd. The road at the end is a loose surface. It stops 100 m short of the campground.

Coordinates: 49.366086, -122.293294

Camping and rec sites at Stave Lake

• Rocky Point

  Campsites

  30 designated

  To the shore

  4 m

  
  Coordinates: 49.310717, -122.321591

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

101 mdeepest38 mmean

Stave Lake runs to 101 m (331 ft) at its deepest.

The mean of 38 m (125 ft) is read off the same chart, surveyed in March 1988.

The Province sounded Stave Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1988. It runs to 2 sheets.

• 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.

The model treats Stave Lake as too large and deep to freeze over, so it gives no freeze-up or ice-off dates. On air temperature alone it would have frozen in 57 of 65 winters since 1960.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Stave 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 Stave Lake is 1.2 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +1.2 Csince the 1960s
• 9.0 Caverage year now
• 7.9 Caverage year then
• -16 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Stave Lake in the app

• Florence Lake 3 km away
• Morgan Lake 4 km away
• Twin Lakes 4 km away
• Salsbury Lake 5 km away
• Kenyon Lake 6 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