Confirm the current BC freshwater fishing regulations (Region 4, Kootenay), including any bait, motor or ice-fishing limits for this lake, before you fish.

Beaver Lake lies N side Fitzstubbs Creek, E of Nakusp; in the Slocan River watershed. It covers ~11.8 ha surface area. The lake survey puts it at max 7 m, mean 3.9 m, which sets the depth you fish.

For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the stocking record is the fishing report. Beaver Lake is a put-and-take angling fishery, stocked with catchable game fish: 34 recorded releases totalling 101,000 fish (Rainbow Trout), last stocked 2026-06-22.

It is still stocked (most recent release 2026-06-22), so it fishes as a put-grow water: this season's fish come from the latest cohorts, topped up to keep it going. The chart below shows the release history by year and species.

Beaver Lake fishes as a put-grow stillwater: work chironomids under an indicator over the shoals in spring, then leech and attractor retrieves along the drop-offs as the shallows warm. The stocking record below is the truest read on the size and cohort of fish you will find.

Confirm the launch, parking and any motor/float or seasonal restrictions for Beaver Lake locally before you commit a day; the map shows where the lake sits in its drainage.