Norbury Lakes is a stocked rainbow stillwater in Norbury Lake Provincial Park, East Kootenay, near Norbury Lake and Peckhams Lake and connected to Norbury Creek. It holds rainbow trout under a long-running put-grow program.
The water
Norbury Lakes lies in Norbury Lake Provincial Park, part of the small cluster of park lakes (with Norbury Lake and Peckhams Lake) tied together by Norbury Creek. Surface area and depth have not been confirmed against a lake survey for this specific water; the coordinate above is a fish-presence point pending a field or gazetteer check.
Stocking
For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the stocking record is the fishing report. Norbury Lakes is a put-grow rainbow fishery, not a self-sustaining wild population: 124 recorded releases between 1938 and 2026, all Rainbow Trout. The most recent release, in 2026, was 1,000 yearling Rainbow Trout of the Blackwater R strain, the same broodstock line used across many of the region's put-grow lakes.
Norbury Lakes — 419,424 fish stocked, 1938–2026
Rainbow Trout. Source: Province of BC — FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.
| Year | Rainbow Trout |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1,000 |
| 2025 | 1,000 |
| 2024 | 1,000 |
| 2023 | 2,000 |
| 2022 | 2,000 |
| 2021 | 2,000 |
| 2020 | 2,304 |
| 2019 | 2,000 |
| 2018 | 1,998 |
| 2017 | 2,000 |
| 2016 | 2,000 |
| 2015 | 2,000 |
| 2014 | 1,800 |
| 2013 | 2,000 |
| 2012 | 2,000 |
| 2011 | 3,500 |
| 2010 | 2,500 |
| 2009 | 2,000 |
| 2008 | 29,370 |
| 2007 | 7,650 |
| 2006 | 9,866 |
| 2005 | 500 |
| 2004 | 500 |
| 2003 | 1,000 |
| 2002 | 1,000 |
| 2001 | 808 |
| 2000 | 1,042 |
| 1999 | 1,000 |
| 1998 | 996 |
| 1997 | 2,123 |
| 1996 | 3,035 |
| 1995 | 2,400 |
| 1994 | 1,580 |
| 1993 | 3,525 |
| 1992 | 3,245 |
| 1991 | 3,447 |
| 1990 | 3,014 |
| 1989 | 3,075 |
| 1988 | 3,498 |
| 1987 | 3,000 |
| 1986 | 3,000 |
| 1985 | 3,000 |
| 1984 | 2,500 |
| 1983 | 5,000 |
| 1981 | 5,000 |
| 1980 | 4,000 |
| 1979 | 5,000 |
| 1978 | 4,000 |
| 1977 | 4,000 |
| 1976 | 8,000 |
| 1975 | 8,000 |
| 1974 | 8,000 |
| 1973 | 8,000 |
| 1972 | 8,000 |
| 1971 | 5,000 |
| 1970 | 10,000 |
| 1969 | 10,000 |
| 1968 | 6,000 |
| 1967 | 5,000 |
| 1966 | 5,280 |
| 1962 | 5,940 |
| 1958 | 30,000 |
| 1957 | 32,768 |
| 1955 | 30,000 |
| 1954 | 13,160 |
| 1949 | 8,000 |
| 1948 | 2,000 |
| 1947 | 3,000 |
| 1946 | 10,000 |
| 1945 | 5,000 |
| 1944 | 3,000 |
| 1943 | 5,000 |
| 1942 | 5,000 |
| 1941 | 8,000 |
| 1940 | 6,000 |
| 1939 | 12,000 |
| 1938 | 3,000 |
That consistency, roughly 1,000 Blackwater R yearlings a season in recent years, is what keeps the lake fishing well from one year to the next: last year's stocked cohort grows on through the season while the next spring's release tops up behind it.
The fishing
As a put-grow rainbow stillwater, Norbury Lakes fishes on the same lines as its neighbours in Norbury Lake Provincial Park: chironomids under an indicator over the shoals in spring, then leech and attractor retrieves along the drop-offs once the water warms through summer. General small-lake stillwater tactics apply, though this lake's own shoal and drop-off structure has not been mapped yet.
Access & the rules
Norbury Lakes sits in Norbury Lake Provincial Park; Peckhams Lake, in the same park, carries a no-powerboat rule. Confirm the launch, parking and any motor or seasonal restriction that applies to this specific lake before you commit a day, and check the current regulations for Region 4.
