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Avoid Heavy Loads

Remove the sand bags from your trunk in the spring and pack lightly for long trips.

Pinantan Lake for swimming, boating, camping, mountain biking and vacation rentals.

Each time you visit Pinantan Lake, you'll be planning your next holiday to this fun and beautiful area!

Pinantan Lake is situated in a low, broad valley of Paul Creek which runs east-west through the northern part of the Interior Plateau physiographic region.

Englemann spruce is the main forest growth in the valley bottom and along the ridge tops with large areas of bunchgrass parkland, douglas fir, ponderosa pine and lodgepole pine on the valley slopes.

Pinantan Lake is less than 4 hours from Vancouver via the scenic Coquihalla Highway and just 25 minutes from Kamloops.

PINANTAN LAKE

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Area Info

Location: From Kamloops travel north on the Yellowhead (hwy #5) for about 5 kms. (3.1 miles). Turn off to the east (right) onto the Paul Lake road. Stay on the Paul Lake road until reaching the Pinantan Lake road (approximately 12 km/7.4 miles) and turn left onto the Pinantan Lake road. Drive about 13 kms. (8 miles) further. Excellent paved road.

Elevation: 878 m / 2880 ft

Latitude: 50.740246
Longitude: -120004616

Lake size: 68 ha / 168 ac
Mean depth: 10.6 m / 34.8 ft

Ice over: November to mid April

Fishing Report

Excellent family lake producing well throughout the season. Rainbows in the 1 lb. range are numerous and offer fast action on trolling and spinning gear. A good mayfly hatch is a bonus for the fly fishers.

The only restriction listed for Pinantan Lake in the Provincial Fishing guide is "electric motors only". Pinantan Lake is stocked annually with 4,000 Rainbow Trout.

There are many public and private boat launches.

For more information about fishing at Pinantan Lake, visit the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC http://www.gofishbc.com/guides.htm

Click on the link Thompson Nicola Guide.

You can purchase your BC freshwater fishing licence online at http://www.fishing.gov.bc.ca/?RD=1

The fish are waiting!

Shoreline: The lake has sharp drop-offs into deep water from a narrow littoral bench all along the shoreline. A flat back shore with cattails and bulrushes is found around the shoreline with the exception of a part of the southern shoreline which has patches of cattails and a steeper backshore. There is an extended marshy back shore at the southeast end of the lake. The riparian fringe behind the bulrushes, sedges and cattails consists of willows and some water birches.

Dogs: please keep your pets leashed to protect wildlife and habitat and pickup after them.

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