hardware, with almost reckless destination for anglers throughout the
abandon. year.
Wells Gray Provincial Park is a rugged Beautiful, blue-green Kalamalka
jewel near the town of Clearwater. Lake and 130-kilometre-long Lake
Clearwater Lake has a boat launch, Okanagan are best-suited for trollers
and good fishing near inlet and outlet who have gear that can get down to
streams. you can expect excellent trophy rainbow trout, and lake char
catch-and-release fishing for wild that can top 10 kilograms. The main
rainbow trout and steelhead along towns of Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton,
the Clearwater River. Just west of Peachland, and Summerland have
Clearwater, family-friendly lakes with many resorts, campgrounds, boat
great fishing are Star, Coldscaur, Italia, launches, and marine services. In
and ejas. Pay a visit to the Clearwater Summerland, the FFSBC offers
Trout Hatchery, where you can see the interesting and informative tours of
FFSBC in action. The park is home to their fish hatchery.
the spectacular 141-metre Helmcken
There are hundreds of high-altitude
Falls, and offers some of the world’s
lakes in the mountain ranges bordering
finest, high-altitude wilderness canoe-
both sides of the Okanagan Valley that
touring in Murtle, Azure, and Hobson
offer all-season fishing (note that some
lakes. There is terrific backcountry
are closed to ice-fishing). The high
ski-touring all winter.
elevation of these lakes keeps their
Okanagan
waters cooler and algae-free during
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and lake char along with scads of
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While big Okanagan and Kalamalka
lakes dominate the Okanagan Valley,
Crooked, Osprey, Duck, and Beaver for
there are hundreds of small, quiet
small, stocked rainbows, and Becker
backcountry ponds that await anglers’
Lake for dry fly-crazy eastern brook
lines in the surrounding hills. Whether
trout.
you explore the major valley lakes, or
Get out those soft plastic crawdads
take in the stunning, peaceful beauty
and night crawlers, leadhead jigs
of a mountain tarn, anglers will find
sporting curly-tail grubs, crank baits, or
fabulous fishing in the Okanagan. A
feathered poppers. The warm, shallow
multitude of fishing opportunities
lakes in the southern part of the region
during the spring, summer and fall
hold bigmouth and smallmouth bass.
combine with ice-fishing during
Work your lures over underwater
the winter to make the Okanagan a
structure, through matted weed
beds, around dock pilings, and under
Thompson Okanagan Win a Dream Fishing Adventure.
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