A small stillwater in the St. Mary River watershed, stocked on and off for nearly three decades with brook trout, cutthroat trout and finally rainbow trout, but with no releases logged since 2013.

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

Eimar Lake is a small stillwater in the St. Mary River watershed of BC's East Kootenay. No survey giving its surface area, depth or clarity is on file, so treat it as an unconfirmed small lake until a local report or field check fills that in.

Eimar Lake's whole recorded history is a stocking record, and it tells three distinct chapters. From 1986 to 2000, the province planted brook trout fingerlings and fry almost every year, 14 releases totalling 14,000 fish, all wild-origin Aylmer-strain stock, the kind of repeated small transplant used to try to build a self-sustaining population rather than a put-and-take put-and-pull fishery. In 2003 and 2005 that shifted to wild-origin Connor-strain cutthroat trout yearlings, 500 fish each release. Then, from 2009 to 2013, the program switched again to standard hatchery rainbow trout (Fraser Valley strain, spring catchable size), five releases totalling 1,275 fish, the last of them 200 fish on June 5, 2013. Nothing has been stocked since.

That leaves an honest question mark over what Eimar Lake fishes like today. Thirteen years without a release means any of the three species could persist as a residual, self-sustaining population, or the lake could have gone quiet. Until a current report confirms which, fish it with standard small-lake stillwater tactics: a chironomid under an indicator over the shoals in spring, a Woolly Bugger or other leech pattern worked along any drop-offs as the water warms, and a switch to attractor dries if you find fish rising in the evening.

Access, launch and parking details for Eimar 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.