The water
Echo Lake is a small stillwater on the east side of Upper Arrow Lake, just below Drimmie Creek and south of Revelstoke, in BC's West Kootenay. It covers about 3.35 hectares, running to a maximum depth of 7.3 m and averaging a shallow 3 m, with neutral water (pH 7.0) per a 1970 provincial reconnaissance survey. Access, launch and parking have not been confirmed; treat it as a walk-in or rough-access lake until that is checked locally.
The fishing
Echo Lake's fishery is rainbow trout on the stocking record alone, no angler report or current survey is on file. Thirty-five releases are logged between 1951 and 2004, roughly 79,000 fry and fingerling across that span, most recently 1,000 Pennask-strain fry planted on 2004-09-08. There has been no recorded release since, over two decades now, so treat this as a formerly stocked lake rather than an active put-and-take fishery until a current count says otherwise.
If it still holds fish, it fishes like the small, shallow stillwater it is: with a mean depth of only 3 m, small-lake stillwater tactics apply across most of the basin rather than just the shoals, a chironomid under an indicator worked at a shallow, consistent depth, small nymphs, and a switch to dries if you find an evening rise.
Read the stocking record as the fishing report
Stocking
Echo Lake — 79,000 fish stocked, 1951–2004
Rainbow Trout. Source: Province of BC — FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.
| Year | Rainbow Trout |
|---|---|
| 2004 | 1,000 |
| 2003 | 1,000 |
| 2002 | 1,000 |
| 2001 | 1,000 |
| 2000 | 1,000 |
| 1999 | 1,000 |
| 1998 | 1,000 |
| 1997 | 1,000 |
| 1996 | 1,000 |
| 1995 | 1,000 |
| 1994 | 1,000 |
| 1992 | 2,000 |
| 1991 | 2,000 |
| 1990 | 2,000 |
| 1989 | 2,000 |
| 1988 | 2,000 |
| 1987 | 2,000 |
| 1986 | 2,000 |
| 1985 | 2,000 |
| 1984 | 2,000 |
| 1983 | 2,000 |
| 1982 | 2,000 |
| 1981 | 2,000 |
| 1980 | 2,000 |
| 1979 | 2,000 |
| 1978 | 2,000 |
| 1977 | 2,000 |
| 1974 | 3,000 |
| 1972 | 8,000 |
| 1971 | 8,000 |
| 1970 | 5,000 |
| 1967 | 4,000 |
| 1965 | 3,000 |
| 1963 | 3,000 |
| 1951 | 2,000 |
Conditions
- Species held: rainbow trout only, all of it historically stocked; no other species on record.
- Program: put-and-take angling program, lapsed; no releases recorded since 2004.
- Depth: max 7.3 m, mean 3 m, pH 7.0 (BC lake survey, 1970-06-29).
Access and the rules
Access, launch and parking details for Echo Lake have not been confirmed and still need a field or source check; the coordinate above marks the fish-presence point recorded in the provincial stocking data, not a verified access point. Confirm both the route in and the current regulations before you commit a day to it.
