Moose Lake has no lake-specific listing confirmed in the current Region 4 synopsis, so the general Kootenay regional rules apply. Confirm current bait, motor and any ice-fishing restrictions in the official BC Freshwater Fishing Regulations before you go.

Moose Lake is catalogued in the provincial gazetteer as a Kootenay River watershed water (waterbodyIdentifier 00374KOTR, watershed code 349-666200-32000), which ties its outflow to the Kootenay River system, though the exact outflow creek is not separately named in the data on file. No lake survey, area figure or bathymetric data has turned up for Moose Lake, so its size, depth and shoreline character remain unconfirmed. Treat the coordinate carried here as the point recorded against its stocking releases, not a surveyed fix, until confirmed on the ground.

For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the stocking record is the fishing report. Moose Lake carries a put-grow rainbow trout program: 69 recorded releases between 1938 and 2026, entirely rainbow trout. The most recent plant, on 2026-05-29, was 2,000 yearling rainbow trout of the Blackwater R strain, out of the province's Blackwater broodstock line.

That near-century run, almost unbroken spring to spring, makes Moose Lake one of the East Kootenay's longer-standing put-grow fisheries: whatever you catch here is a yearling or slightly older fish from a recent plant, not a wild holdover.

With no confirmed depth, size or shoreline structure on record, fish Moose Lake on standard small East Kootenay stillwater lines until a local report says otherwise: chironomids under an indicator over any shoal or drop-off structure, and balanced leech or Woolly Bugger retrieves worked slowly along deeper edges, are the everyday approach to rainbow holding over chironomids and leeches, the standard forage base of small BC put-grow lakes. A searching dry such as an Adams is worth a look on a calm evening.

No confirmed boat launch, parking area or shoreline access point has been found for Moose Lake. It sits in the East Kootenay's Kootenay River watershed; confirm the access route and current Region 4 rules locally before committing a day to it.