A small, put-and-take stillwater just north of Mount Begbie, southwest of Revelstoke, about 6.7 hectares and held entirely by stocked rainbow trout, with releases on record back to 1935.

Not individually listed in the Region 4 synopsis, so the regional defaults apply: trout/char daily quota 5 (no more than 1 rainbow over 50 cm), possession 2× the daily limit. Confirm the current rules before you fish.

Begbie Lake sits just north of Mount Begbie and southwest of Revelstoke, in the Upper Arrow Lake watershed in BC's West Kootenay. It is a small stillwater, about 6.7 hectares, running to a maximum depth of 6.4 m and averaging 3.2 m, with slightly acidic water (pH 6.9), per a 1970 provincial reconnaissance survey. Access, launch and parking have not been confirmed; treat it as a walk-in or rough-access lake until that is checked locally.

Begbie Lake is a put-and-take fishery, not a self-sustaining one. Its entire recorded catch comes from stocked rainbow trout, with 49 releases logged between 1935 and 2025, most recently 1,000 Pennask-strain fry planted on 2025-09-17. That long record, roughly 146,750 rainbow trout stocked across nine decades, says the lake has held a fishable population of put-and-take rainbow for a very long time, even without an angler report on file to confirm current condition.

Fish it with standard small-lake stillwater tactics until a local report says otherwise: a chironomid under an indicator worked over the shoals in spring and early summer (the shallow mean depth of 3.2 m keeps most of the lake in range), leech and attractor patterns like a Woolly Bugger fished along any drop-offs as the water warms, and a switch to dry-fly and emerger patterns if you find fish rising in the evening.

Access, launch and parking details for Begbie Lake have not been confirmed and still need a field or source check; the coordinate above marks the fish-presence point recorded in the provincial stocking data, not a verified access point. Confirm both the route in and the current regulations before you commit a day to it.