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[Sam6140]

Could also have been a big old Pike feeding up on all those small stockie rainbows!  Pike, being predatory, are active at dawn and dusk not just daytime ambushers!!

Are u serious?  Because we don't have pike anywhere around here at all. 

Nope, no loons.  Strangely not a single water fowl at Alice.  I did have a curious blue jay standing just over me watching the whole time I was fishing.  This happened at both lakes.  Never left my side for hours. lol    And then at Browning, I had this crane sitting in the tree next to me, watching, and then he came right over the second he saw that I hooked a fish. lol   But never actually went for the fish or anything.  I guess he must get handouts from people.

[FlyFishin Magician]

I'm glad to hear there are some fish to be found in the lakes up in the Squamish area.  I remember fishing off the dock at Alice Lake in early spring or fall and catching lots of rainbows with my minicast kit.  Fun and relaxing, and not nearly as busy as the rivers!

I'd like to take my daughter fishing, and I'd prefer one of these lakes to a local city pond like Lafarge.  She's going to be 4 in a week, and she's told me she wants to catch a rainbow trout!  I even picked up a replacement spincasting reel for my minicast kit, since I'll have to put down the fly rods and float tube if I'm bringing the princess along.  She's even got her own "Dora the Explorer" fishing rod!

Anyway, thanks for the report.  Btw - I'm thinking it was a muskrat or small animal that took your trout - not another fish.   I had a similar experience at Furry Creek.  I hooked a nice pink salmon on the fly and all of a sudden, it turned into a big chinook!  The chinook then turned into a seal which said "bye bye" with my fish...

[steve B]

dont rule out a very large catfish never fished the lakes metioned i know that catfish can get pretty large in lakes especially a stocked lake

[pornlando]

Similar thing happened to me once it turned out to be a otter.

[adecadelost]

My money would be on an otter as well.
They are in the area so it is probable.
As well most fish when hooked will try and run for deeper portions of the lake rather then trying to run for the creek mouth.
An otter however would likely grab his catch and bee-line to the creek to eat.

[Damien]

I did have a curious blue jay standing just over me watching the whole time I was fishing.  This happened at both lakes.  Never left my side for hours. lol

That would be a Steller's Jay (named after the German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, the first to record them in 1741) , often confused with a Blue Jay (which are not found this neck of the woods) as they look quite similar.

They are extremely intelligent and social, from Corividae family which includes our friends, the Crows, Magpies, Whiskey Jacks etc.  They often display the curious typebehaviour you witnessed, hanging out with you looking for scraps and general adventure and stimulus.

[Bavarian Raven]

maybe it just was a very big cuttie or rainbow. I have seen some very big trout come from small lakes before. 

[coho13]

i hve seen alot of small water animals in alice lake and have seen on sevral ocasions where fish are taken off lines from a musrts and otters

[qescott]

I'm heading out there tomorrow. If I catch your mysterious beast I'll let you know.

[Sam6140]

I'm heading out there tomorrow. If I catch your mysterious beast I'll let you know.

lol  please do!  My advice: Try and go really early.  The fishing was real good at 7:30am-8:30am.  The fishing dies off after 10am.  I highly recommend the edge of the beach, right by the parking lot for the day users.  Try and fish off the beach and cast towards the creek (between the creek and the 1st swim platform).  It's deep there too.  


Does anyone know if the lake has been stocked with Brood Trout or not?  No one mentioned it.    And I know what you guys mean about the chance that it could have been an otter.  It's just that I have been watching the lake, and never saw any sign of any animals.  Otters come up for air all the time, or swim along with their head out of the water.  There was no movement.   But again, there was a couple large wakes around my bait at that time.  Maybe Brood Trout, maybe large carp or catfish?   The way the thing took off towards the creek was weird, but there was also cover there.  Some submerged logs, and weeds I believe.