Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum

Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: NothingToSnagAbout on December 27, 2016, 06:09:53 PM

Title: Rice lake conditions
Post by: NothingToSnagAbout on December 27, 2016, 06:09:53 PM
Anybody live in the area or been there recently? Gonna go with the family for a little hike there and wondering if it's fishable or frozen over?
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: Bavarian Raven on December 27, 2016, 06:26:19 PM
Well apparently people were skating on it a week or two back (or so i was told) so unless you're ice fishing... i'd go with unfishable atm :P
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: sim on December 27, 2016, 06:41:52 PM
Frozen, saw too many people walking on the lake today despite weak ice conditions. I noticed some folks had poked holes in the ice at the wharf, doing some ice fishing?
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: NothingToSnagAbout on December 27, 2016, 08:42:05 PM
K thanks guys, any other suggestions for shore fishing lakes in greater Vancouver right now?
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: redtide on December 27, 2016, 08:51:22 PM
Burnaby or deer lake. Should b okay.
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: Bavarian Raven on December 28, 2016, 08:48:06 AM
Burnaby or deer lake. Should b okay.

Burnaby lake is iced over (the western two thirds of the lake is), the eastern third had some open water patches when I was there on christmas day.
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: Kevgor on December 28, 2016, 08:52:12 AM
What about Browning lake in Murrin Park, just a few clicks before Squamish - any ideas of ice-over conditions there?
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: Damien on December 28, 2016, 11:07:08 AM
I would assume it's iced over up there.  But it would be nice to know before venturing out for sure. 

That said, some other (better?) options than fishing along the highway could be the Alice Lake area, Stump, Fawn or Edith Lakes?  Been years since I've been up there, but it was beautiful then and had lots of aggressive 10-14" trout.  If i'm not mistaken, one of the lakes has had sunfish dumped in there by some moron(s) and there were cutties stocked to see if they could control the population.
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: MetalAndFeathers on December 28, 2016, 04:15:03 PM
I would assume it's iced over up there.  But it would be nice to know before venturing out for sure. 

That said, some other (better?) options than fishing along the highway could be the Alice Lake area, Stump, Fawn or Edith Lakes?  Been years since I've been up there, but it was beautiful then and had lots of aggressive 10-14" trout.  If i'm not mistaken, one of the lakes has had sunfish dumped in there by some intelligent and respectable human being(s) and there were cutties stocked to see if they could control the population.
Those lakes are all frozen.
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: Knnn on December 28, 2016, 06:01:21 PM
What about Browning lake in Murrin Park, just a few clicks before Squamish - any ideas of ice-over conditions there?

completely iced over with smoke snow on top as of yesterday.
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: hrenya on January 21, 2017, 08:54:13 AM
any updates on how it is looking now ?? feeling to go fishing but don't want to drive if it frozen
Title: Re: Rice lake conditions
Post by: Fish Assassin on January 21, 2017, 12:38:14 PM
Still frozen