Rainbow trout
Good
Under the ice where it is safe: small jigs and bait near the bottom in shallow bays. On open rivers, nymphs slow and deep.
Kamloops Fishing Report
Updated Mon, Nov 9, 2026 from live weather and water data
Kamloops and its lakes: stocked rainbow trout and kokanee on the plateau, the Thompson in town, and ice fishing where the synopsis allows it.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Water temp
~6 °C est.
Air / High
3 °C / 12 °C
Wind
E 9 km/h
Sources: Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Kamloops is a cold-water proposition today: small baits, slow presentations and a long soak. Today brings cloud cover, wind E around 10 km/h, rising pressure near 1017 hPa and a high of 12 °C. Water sits around 6 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:49 PM-1:49 AM and 12:07 PM-2:07 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Tie on: Jigging spoon through the ice · Dead-stick minnow · Tip-up with dead bait · Tungsten jig and wax worm. Prime windows: 11:49 PM-1:49 AM, 12:07 PM-2:07 PM, 8:41 AM-9:41 AM. Similar at 12 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
British Columbia requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from C$11.43. British Columbia fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing rainbow trout here? Check the size and bag limits with BC Freshwater Fishing before you keep anything; the Rainbow trout page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Kamloops today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (08:06), sunset (17:23), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:49 PM-1:49 AM and 12:07 PM-2:07 PM; minor 8:41 AM-9:41 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Conditions here are modelled from weather, season and the nearest stations.
No live gauge on this water
Water readings appear when a Water Survey of Canada station covers it. Until then the seasonal curve below is the estimate.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp3 °C
High / Low12 °C / 3 °C
WindE 9 km/h, gusts 11 km/h
Pressure101.70 kPa, rising
Sky / Rain100% cloud, 35%
Sunrise / Sunset08:06 / 17:23
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~6 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Kamloops
The best day on Kamloops this week looks like Wednesday Nov 11, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Wednesday, Nov 11 — good at 4/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, Nov 9 — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 11:49 PM-1:49 AM and 12:07 PM-2:07 PM
- Minor period
- 8:41 AM-9:41 AM
- Sun
- 08:06 to 17:23
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 13 km/h
- Rain chance
- 35%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Kamloops: seasons written for the Canadian year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Rainbow trout
Lakes: ice-off to June and September to freeze-up; rivers through the open season
Canada’s most stocked sport fish, in thousands of BC, Alberta and prairie lakes and in the famous rivers, the Bow first among them. Wild rainbows in the rivers; stocked fish in most small lakes. Under the ice where it is safe: small jigs and bait near the bottom in shallow bays. On open rivers, nymphs slow and deep.
Kokanee
Late spring and summer
Landlocked sockeye of the BC interior lakes: Okanagan, Kootenay, Shuswap and many smaller lakes. Schools in open water and feeds on plankton. Out of season.
When to come: the Kamloops calendar
Activity by species and month for the Canadian year, and how the water warms and cools. Tap any cell.
Species activity by month
1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted. January is midsummer here.
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Rainbow trout
Kokanee
SlowPeak
Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 6 °C (estimated, not a reading).
Angler reports
Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. Nothing here is copied from a shop or a charter. The water log below tracks each day automatically.
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Water log, last days
Auto-logged from live dataSun, Nov 8
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Rainbow trout led the card at good. High of 13 °C, wind to 23 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Rainbow trout led the card at good. High of 13 °C, wind to 16 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Rainbow trout led the card at excellent. High of 14 °C, wind to 21 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
BC freshwater fishing licence, from C$11.43 for a resident adult, with higher prices for other Canadians and visitors. Details and where to buy → In salt water you also need the federal BC Tidal Waters Sport Fishing Licence.
Regulations
Size and bag limits, closed seasons and protected areas are set by BC Freshwater Fishing and, in salt water and for salmon, by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the British Columbia licence page before you keep anything. The zone-by-zone seasons and limits are on British Columbia fishing seasons.
Access
A BC freshwater licence is needed; each lake’s limits and gear rules are in the Region 3 synopsis, and streams in the region are closed from January 1 to June 30 unless the tables say otherwise.
About this water
Kamloops is a coastal town in British Columbia, Canada, covered from the British Columbia reports and listed in all Canada waters.
Fishing Kamloops: the full guide
Fishing around Kamloops
Kamloops sits where the North and South Thompson rivers meet, in the dry grasslands of the BC interior, and the plateaus around it hold many trout lakes. The federal sport fishing regulations still list Kamloops, alongside steelhead, as a form of rainbow trout. The report on this page is scored for the city; the lakes around it share its weather.
Species and seasons
Rainbow trout are the fish, in stocked and wild lakes, with kokanee and brook trout in some. In 2025 the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC stocked more than forty lakes that it lists under Kamloops as the nearest town, mostly with rainbow trout, and put kokanee into lakes such as Paul, Stake and Stump. Ice-off in spring and the fall turnover are the best times on the lakes.
Where to fish it
The plateau lakes to the southwest, Tunkwa and Leighton among them, are fished from small boats and float tubes with chironomids, leeches and small lures; both were stocked with Pennask rainbow trout yearlings in April 2026, and Tunkwa Lake has its own page. The Thompson River through the city and west to Kamloops Lake is fished for trout, with its own seasons and quotas in the synopsis.
Planning a visit
Kamloops has every service and tackle shops that know the lakes. The stocking lists published by the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC show which lakes were stocked, with what and when, and many lakes lie at higher elevation and freeze early. Some Region 3 lakes carry special rules, such as single hooks, bait bans or electric motors only.
The water through the year
Low-elevation lakes open first in spring and the higher lakes follow; summer heat slows the lower lakes; fall brings the trout back into the shallows; winter brings the ice. Kamloops Lake, a big, windy lake on the Thompson west of the city, fishes differently from the small plateau lakes, with its own quotas and a single barbless hook rule.
Reading this report here
The report is scored for the city’s weather, which the nearby lakes share, and the water temperature is a labelled estimate for a typical interior lake rather than a measurement. Pressure trends and cloud cover make up the rest of the score.
Licence, access and rules
A BC freshwater licence is needed; each lake’s limits and gear rules are in the Region 3 synopsis, and streams in the region are closed from January 1 to June 30 unless the tables say otherwise. Salmon in the Thompson and Kamloops Lake open only by DFO notice, as pinks and chinook did in 2025. No agency measures ice thickness for anglers: check it yourself.
Common questions
What is a Kamloops trout?
A name for the rainbow trout of the Kamloops region; the federal sport fishing regulations define rainbow trout as including steelhead and Kamloops.
How many lakes near Kamloops are stocked?
In 2025 the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC stocked more than forty lakes it lists under Kamloops as the nearest town; its stocking list shows which.
Can I ice fish near Kamloops?
On many lakes, where the ice is safe, but some, including Jacko Lake, are closed to ice fishing under the synopsis.
Is fishing good at Kamloops right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- Open-Meteo forecast model
- https://open-meteo.com/
- Fish stocking
- Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC, stocking reports
- Moon and solunar windows
- Calculated on this site
- Pages checked
- The written guide on this page
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