Pitt Lake fishing regulations
Pitt Lake is a lake in Region 2 (Lower Mainland), management unit 2-8. Here is what the 2025–2027 synopsis says about it, and the regional rules that apply on top.
Rules for Pitt Lake
- No wild trout over 50 cm, 1 bull trout over 60 cm
- Wild trout/char catch and release, single barbless hook north of fishing boundary signs (east and west shores) near the head of the lake
Region 2 quotas
Unless the rules above set a different quota for Pitt 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?
More waters in the Lower Mainland
Chilliwack Lake · Vedder River · Harrison River · Harrison Lake · Fraser River · Pitt River · Stave River · Alouette Lake