Centaur Lake sits in the St. Mary River watershed of the East Kootenay, carrying a brook trout population built entirely by stocking. No size, launch or facility information has turned up for it yet, so for now the honest read is a lake worth a regulation and access check, not a confirmed destination.
The water
Surface area is not recorded. The working coordinate comes from the province's fish-presence point for the lake and still needs field confirmation.
The fishing
What is known comes entirely from the stocking record. Centaur received 12 recorded plants of brook trout between 1957 and 2001, the last a release of 1,000 fingerling brook trout of the Aylmer strain in 2001. Nothing has been stocked since, so any fish present today are either long-lived holdovers or a naturalized population sustaining itself in the lake. Until that is confirmed, plan on Centaur fishing like a small brook trout stillwater: chironomids and small nymphs worked over the shoals, with attractor dries a possibility if fish are rising.
Stocking
The full year-by-year release history, colored by species, is below.
Centaur — 70,215 fish stocked, 1957–2001
Brook Trout. Source: Province of BC — FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.
| Year | Brook Trout |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 1,000 |
| 1999 | 2,000 |
| 1998 | 2,000 |
| 1967 | 5,000 |
| 1966 | 5,000 |
| 1965 | 5,000 |
| 1964 | 8,200 |
| 1963 | 10,380 |
| 1962 | 9,975 |
| 1961 | 9,660 |
| 1958 | 6,000 |
| 1957 | 6,000 |
Before you fish
Access and the rules
Confirm the road, boat launch, facilities and any seasonal or private-land restrictions for Centaur Lake locally before you go.
