Atlin Lake fishing regulations
Atlin Lake is a lake in Region 6 (Skeena), management units 6-25, 6-27. Here is what the 2025–2027 synopsis says about it, and the regional rules that apply on top.
Rules for Atlin Lake
- Lake trout daily quota = 3: EITHER none over 60 cm, OR only 1 over 60 cm and the other 2 must be 60 cm or less; Arctic grayling daily quota = 3 (only 1 over 35 cm); northern pike daily quota = 5 (only 1 over 70 cm); whitefish daily quota = 5
- Only one daily quota may be retained from Atlin Lake regardless of which side of the border the fish were taken
Region 6 quotas
Unless the rules above set a different quota for Atlin Lake:
- Region 6 daily quotas: Trout/char: 5, but not more than 1 over 50 cm (quota includes hatchery steelhead), 3 Dolly Varden/bull trout and/or lake trout combined, 1 trout from streams July 1-Oct 31. You must release all Dolly Varden/bull trout from streams all year, trout under 30 cm from any stream, trout of any size from streams Nov 1-June 30, lake trout from Fraser and Skeena watersheds Sept 15-Nov 30, all wild steelhead.
- Kokanee: 10 (none from streams). Whitefish: 15 (all species combined). White sturgeon: closed to all fishing.
Other Region 6 rules for lakes
- Bait ban: In the Skeena River, including tributaries, and Nass River, including tributaries, year-round.
- Set lining is only permitted in the lakes of Region 6: one line, a single hook with a gap of not less than 3 cm, marked with the angler's name, address and telephone number. Any game fish other than burbot must be released.
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More waters in the Skeena
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