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Rivers & Lakes · Stocked Stillwater

Seven Mile

A stocked stillwater in the Lower Arrow Lake watershed, surface area not recorded, carrying Kokanee and topped up by the provincial stocking program.

Seven Mile is a stocked stillwater in the Lower Arrow Lake watershed. Surface area not recorded.

The water

Seven Mile sits in the Lower Arrow Lake watershed, covering surface area not recorded.

Stocking

For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the stocking record is the fishing report. Seven Mile is a kokanee program, a mix of forage stocking and a put-and-take sport fishery: 1 recorded release totalling 40,000 fish (Kokanee), last stocked 1937-01-01.

Stocking record

Seven Mile — 40,000 fish stocked, 1937–1937

Kokanee. Source: Province of BC — FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.

YearKokanee
193740,000

Stocking appears to have wound down after 1937. Confirm whether it is still topped up or now fishes as a residual, wild population. The chart below shows the full release history.

The fishing

Seven Mile fishes as a put-grow stillwater: work chironomids under an indicator over the shoals in spring, then leech and attractor retrieves along the drop-offs as the shallows warm. The stocking record below is the truest read on the size and cohort of fish you will find.

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Stocked Stillwater
Lower Arrow Lake watershed
egg
Stocked
kokanee program

Access & the rules

Confirm the launch, parking and any motor/float or seasonal restrictions for Seven Mile locally before you commit a day; the map shows where the lake sits in its drainage.

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Before you fish

Confirm the current BC freshwater fishing regulations (Region 4 – Kootenay) before you go. Official synopsis: gov.bc.ca fishing regulations.