A small, moderately deep stillwater in the uplands west of Columbia Lake, stocked with rainbow trout since 1958. The modern program is a steady annual drop of Pennask-strain yearlings, the latest chapter in a lake that has also carried Premier, Beaver and Blackwater-strain fish over nearly seven decades of records.

Brady Lake is a small stillwater in the Columbia River watershed, sitting in the uplands west of Columbia Lake near the Marion Creek and Major Creek drainages. A 1992 provincial survey put it at 4.9 hectares, with a maximum depth of 9.5 m and an average of 4.8 m: a small but genuinely two-tier basin, shallow shoal water ringing a deeper hole. Water clarity measured 6 m on a Secchi disk and pH ran a touch alkaline at 8.3, both unremarkable for the region's interior stillwaters.

For an angler judging whether the lake is worth a stop, the release record is the fishing report. Provincial hatchery records run from 1958 to 2026 and log 44 release events, all of them rainbow trout, totalling roughly 61,000 fish. The largest historical volume came from the Premier strain, about 29,000 fish stocked between 1971 and 2001, a program that ended more than two decades ago. The Beaver strain opened the record in 1958 and ran through 1993; Blackwater-strain fish went in periodically between 2002 and 2015.

The Pennask strain has both the longest run and the current program: stocked on and off since 1968, and every spring since at least 2021 without a gap, most recently 750 yearlings released in April 2026. That makes Pennask the lake's active, renewing cohort. Any rainbow you catch that trace back to the Premier, Beaver or Blackwater plantings would be legacy or self-sustaining fish rather than fresh stock, if any remain at all.

Brady Lake fishes as a small, single-species stillwater: work the shoal-and-drop-off structure rather than searching open water. Early in the season, hang a chironomid under an indicator over the shoals (chironomid under indicator is the standard rig); as the shallows warm through summer, follow the drop toward the 9.5 m basin with a woolly bugger or a small leech pattern on a sinking line. Chironomids, leeches and scuds are the general stillwater forage base to expect in a lake this size.

No confirmed boat launch, parking area or shoreline access point has been found for Brady Lake. It sits in the uplands west of Columbia Lake, in the general vicinity of the Marion Creek and Major Creek drainages; treat this as an access-check water and confirm a route in, and any private-land or seasonal restrictions, before committing a day to it.