Comfort Lake

Stillwater
1
Species listed
5.5 m
Reported max depth
3.3 m
Reported mean depth
Comfort Lake is a small stillwater at the head of Succour Creek, near the south end of Kinbasket Lake's Columbia Reach, in the Columbia River watershed of the East Kootenay. It sits in a cluster of similarly named, similarly sized lakes in the same drainage, including Aid Lake and Help Lake, all stocked on the same rhythm through the same decades.

Species

Reported species; current abundance is unknown.
No live gauge
No gauge readings are available for this water.
Season
Driving directions

Region 4 Regulations — guide reviewed 2026-07-08

Comfort Lake is not confirmed as individually listed in the Region 4 synopsis, so the general provincial and Region 4 (Kootenay) rules apply until checked otherwise. Confirm the current synopsis before you fish.

The water

The lake covers 9.11 hectares. A 1984 provincial reconnaissance survey found it shallow and productive: a maximum depth of 5.5 m, a mean depth of 3.3 m (a small basin, no deep refuge water), and a surface pH of 8.5. No Secchi-depth clarity reading was recorded. Comfort Lake carries no gazetted mollusc bioindicator survey, so there is no independent water-health signal beyond the stocking and depth data on file.

The fishing

No dedicated fishing report for Comfort Lake has surfaced. The honest read, based on its size and depth, is that it fishes like the small stillwaters typical of this drainage: work chironomid patterns under an indicator over the shoals in spring and early summer, then switch to Woolly Bugger and other leech or attractor patterns worked along the drop-offs as the shallows warm. With a mean depth of only 3.3 m, the whole lake is within casting and indicator range, so small-lake stillwater tactics apply across most of the basin rather than being confined to a narrow shoal band.

Three decades of Premier and Pennask rainbow

Comfort Lake was stocked 28 times between 1974 and 2003, a little over 131,000 rainbow trout in total. The early releases were heavy drops of fry and fingerlings, up to 11,000 fish in a season; by 1989 the program had settled into a steady 2,000 yearlings a year, mostly Pennask strain with some Premier-strain fish mixed in, until it stopped after the 2003 release. No stocking has been recorded here since, and it is unconfirmed whether any residual wild population remains.

Access and the rules

Comfort Lake has no confirmed road access, boat launch or facilities on file. Reach the general area via the Columbia Reach of Kinbasket Lake, east of its south end; treat the exact route and any parking as unconfirmed until checked locally.

Before you fish

Confirm the current BC freshwater fishing regulations (Region 4, Kootenay) before you go. Official synopsis: gov.bc.ca fishing regulations.

Stocking

Comfort Lake was managed as a put-and-take and put-grow rainbow trout fishery. The full year-by-year release history, 1974 to 2003, is below, from the Province of BC (FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases) via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.

Conditions

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Depth: max 5.5 m, mean 3.3 m (BC lake survey, 1984-07-06, "A Reconnaissance Survey of Comfort Lake").
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Water chemistry: surface pH 8.5 at the time of survey.
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Stocking: dormant since 2003; no releases recorded in the two decades since.

Questions

Page reviewed 2026-07-08