Early season fishing can be good in the shallow water, so you can set your fly 2 or 3 feet below your indicator. Use leeches, chironomids, bloodworms, or shrimp. If the fish want the fly moving be sure to get out your intermediate line and move your fly slowly through the shallows.

 

- Remember you are only allowed one fish over twenty inches and the rest under.

 

- When coming to the interior of B.C. and you need a guide be sure to book in advance, not many shops have standby guides for lake fishing.

 

- Our guides are by appointment only.

 

- Please be sure to go with a licensed guide; don't support illegal guiding.

 

- No live bait allowed in B.C.

 

- No treble hooks allowed

 

- No droppers allowed.

 

- Be sure to clean your line, it will not only float better, it will go through the guides better.

 

- When connecting flourocarbon tippet to mono leader use a triple surgeons knot.

 

- When fishing for the Kamloops trout you will find the most popular rods are 9 1/2 or 10 foot rods in a 5 or 6 weight.

 

- Flies for Kamloops lakes range in size from size 16 to 4.

 

- 12 - 16 foot boats are the standard Jon-boats being the most popular followed by v-hulls.

 

- Be sure to bring 2 anchors so you don't spin in the wind.

 

- Many lakes are single barbless so check the regulations.

 

 

Make sure that you have a wide variety of leeches and chironomids for your spring fishing. You will need many colours of leeches so you can give the trout what they want and you never know what chironomids will hatch in the spring. Don't count out dragonflies, boatman, shrimp, and any species of bug that lives under the ice, because the fish will continue to feed on their winter fair.