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Alta Lake fishing regulations

Alta Lake is a lake in Region 2 (Lower Mainland), management unit 2-9. Here is what the 2025–2027 synopsis says about it, and the regional rules that apply on top.

Stocked

Rules for Alta Lake

• No Fishing Dec 1-Mar 31
• Trout/char daily quota combined = 2, no trout over 40cm, no more than 1 char (none under 60 cm)
• Kokanee catch and release, bait ban, single barbless hook; speed restriction (12 km/h)

Synopsis page 22.

Region 2 quotas

Unless the rules above set a different quota for Alta Lake:

• Region 2 daily quotas: Trout/char: 4, but not more than 1 over 50 cm (2 hatchery steelhead over 50 cm allowed), 2 from streams (must be hatchery), 1 char (bull trout, Dolly Varden, or lake trout), none under 60 cm. You must release wild trout/char from streams, all wild steelhead, hatchery trout/char under 30 cm from streams.
• Bass: 20 (excluding Mill Lake). Crappie: 20. Crayfish: 25. Kokanee: 5 (none from streams). Whitefish: 15 (all species combined). White sturgeon: catch and release only.

Other Region 2 rules for lakes

• No Fishing: in any lake in the UBC Malcolm Knapp Research Forest near Maple Ridge.
• When you have caught and retained your daily quota of hatchery steelhead from any water, you must stop fishing that water for the remainder of that day.

Know your fish

The rules here name these fish. Not sure what you caught?

From the BC Freshwater Fishing Regulations Synopsis 2025-2027, data of October 29, 2026. Province-wide rules (licences, one line, barbless hooks in streams, bait rules) also apply. This page is a guide; the official regulations govern.

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