Recent Stocking — Kootenays, May–June 2026

Time-sensitive. Long-run stocking history lives on the lake pages; this is just what went in recently (Go Fish BC lake reports, pulled 2026-07-02).

Snapshot — East Kootenay, newest first

Date	Lake (town)	What went in
Jun 23	Peckhams Lake (Bull River)	1,000 Blackwater rainbow, AF3n yearling (10 g)
Jun 16	Campbell (Fort Steele)	500 spring catchables — Fraser Valley rainbow, 238 g
Jun 15	Jubilee + McClain (Parson)	2,000 Pennask/Blackwater rainbow yearlings
Jun 11	Dogsleg (Invermere)	1,500 spring catchables, 238 g
Jun 11	Burton (Elko)	750 brook fingerlings + 500 rainbow fingerlings
Jun 9–10	Jeb, Susan (Donald); Grave (Elk Valley)	brookies + rainbows; 12,500 kokanee fry into Grave
May 28–29	Alces (Canal Flats); Three Island, Rocky Point, Summit (Parson)	~8,500 yearlings/fingerlings
May 21	Steamboat, Halfway, Sams Folly (Invermere); Mirror (Bull River)	Pennask yearlings
May 14	Rockbluff (Quartz) Lake (Skookumchuck)	2,000 rainbow yearlings + 2,000 kokanee fry
May 12	Cleland, Cartwright, Jade (Invermere)	9,500 rainbow yearlings (Cartwright 6,000)
May 11	Mitten, Bittern + more (Parson); Loon (Golden)	~14,000 Blackwater/Pennask yearlings
May 5	Premier Lake (Skookumchuck)	26,621 Blackwater diploid yearlings (18 g)

West Kootenay highlights: Loon (Ainsworth) got kokanee fry + rainbows Jun 15; Cottonwood (Nelson) 500 spring catchables Jun 17; Summit (Nakusp) 5,000 Pennask yearlings Jun 22.

What it means for fishing now

• Spring catchables = instant fisheries: Campbell (Fort Steele), Dogsleg (Invermere) and Cottonwood (Nelson) each took 238-gram, pan-ready rainbows in mid-June — easy family or hot-afternoon options.
• Premier Lake's annual 26k drop landed May 5 — its put-grow engine is topped up; the 2025-cohort fish are the current keepers.
• Peckhams Lake and Rockbluff (Quartz) Lake both freshly topped up — pair with a Chironomid Under Indicator or Balanced Leech on calm mornings.
• Yearlings (5–10 g) stocked May–June are next-season fish — don't chase those releases now.

Data note

Go Fish BC's report tool has no public rows API (only towns/waterbodies lookups on stockingreports/v1) — this table was read from the rendered report. Re-pull via the website when refreshing.

Promote?

• Mirror Lk (Bull River) and Dogsleg/Cartwright (Invermere) look like stocked stillwaters worth wiki pages if we fish that valley. 2026 releases for Premier/Peckhams/Rockbluff → their lake pages at season end.