Comfort Lake is a small stillwater at the head of Succour Creek, near the south end of Kinbasket Lake's Columbia Reach, in the Columbia River watershed of the East Kootenay. It sits in a cluster of similarly named, similarly sized lakes in the same drainage, including Aid Lake and Help Lake, all stocked on the same rhythm through the same decades.
The water
The lake covers 9.11 hectares. A 1984 provincial reconnaissance survey found it shallow and productive: a maximum depth of 5.5 m, a mean depth of 3.3 m (a small basin, no deep refuge water), and a surface pH of 8.5. No Secchi-depth clarity reading was recorded. Comfort Lake carries no gazetted mollusc bioindicator survey, so there is no independent water-health signal beyond the stocking and depth data on file.
The fishing
No dedicated fishing report for Comfort Lake has surfaced. The honest read, based on its size and depth, is that it fishes like the small stillwaters typical of this drainage: work chironomid patterns under an indicator over the shoals in spring and early summer, then switch to Woolly Bugger and other leech or attractor patterns worked along the drop-offs as the shallows warm. With a mean depth of only 3.3 m, the whole lake is within casting and indicator range, so small-lake stillwater tactics apply across most of the basin rather than being confined to a narrow shoal band.
Three decades of Premier and Pennask rainbow
Access and the rules
Comfort Lake has no confirmed road access, boat launch or facilities on file. Reach the general area via the Columbia Reach of Kinbasket Lake, east of its south end; treat the exact route and any parking as unconfirmed until checked locally.
Before you fish
Stocking
Comfort Lake was managed as a put-and-take and put-grow rainbow trout fishery. The full year-by-year release history, 1974 to 2003, is below, from the Province of BC (FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases) via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.
Comfort Lake — 131,166 fish stocked, 1974–2003
Rainbow Trout. Source: Province of BC — FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.
| Year | Rainbow Trout |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 2,000 |
| 2002 | 2,000 |
| 2001 | 2,000 |
| 2000 | 2,000 |
| 1999 | 2,000 |
| 1998 | 2,000 |
| 1997 | 2,000 |
| 1996 | 2,000 |
| 1995 | 2,000 |
| 1994 | 2,000 |
| 1993 | 2,000 |
| 1992 | 2,000 |
| 1991 | 2,000 |
| 1990 | 2,000 |
| 1989 | 3,166 |
| 1988 | 4,000 |
| 1987 | 2,000 |
| 1986 | 5,000 |
| 1985 | 10,000 |
| 1984 | 10,000 |
| 1983 | 10,000 |
| 1982 | 10,000 |
| 1981 | 11,000 |
| 1980 | 10,000 |
| 1979 | 10,000 |
| 1978 | 5,000 |
| 1975 | 5,000 |
| 1974 | 8,000 |
Conditions
- Depth: max 5.5 m, mean 3.3 m (BC lake survey, 1984-07-06, "A Reconnaissance Survey of Comfort Lake").
- Water chemistry: surface pH 8.5 at the time of survey.
- Stocking: dormant since 2003; no releases recorded in the two decades since.
