The mild spell this past week, coupled with rain and high winds, removed most of the ice on Tunkwa. Yesterdays cooler, and calm, morning allowed the lake to freeze over again. Some more seasonably cold nights, are needed to thicken things up. Water levels continue to rise, which is great news, sure will help the fish winter well. Guests have been making the short trek, to a lower, nearby trophy lake, to extend there stillwater fishing season even further.

Tunkwa was completely frozen this morning, with about 3/4" of clear ice. It's looking like the ice is probably here to stay now. As the ice thickens, we will post thickness and when ice conditions are safe to start ice fishing.

Tunkwa is wide open and still ice free, with some skim ice in some of the protected back bays, that is often gone by mid morning. Water levels have been increasing and the lake level is noticably higher.
Angling pressure has been very light, but anglers are doing well when the weather permits. Active fish are still shallow, with lots of 1 to 1.5lb rainbows being caught. Guest visiting a nearby trophy lake report doing well fsihign from shore, and also seeing many big fish cruising the shallows.
The nearby Thompson River opened up for steelhead fishing, a week ago Friday, which is an encouraging sign for a stronger run of these magnificent fish.

Watch for current ice fishing reports when the ice fishing gets under way. We are lookign forward to a great season of hardwater fishing this winter, and want to see many anglers come up and give it a try!

After a slow week or more fall fishing appears to be underway, fishing has picked up well since yesterday, water boatman, scuds and leeches are seen in the shallows, boatman and scuds were not seen for over a week since the cold snap on the 9th,10th and 11th of October as the temps were between -20 and -17 at night changing the water temperature dramaticaly to the point of putting down the aquatic insects, thus no fish feeding, no fish feeding= little fish caught.
Fish have VERY large bloodworms in their stomach's, stuffed with them in deep red and flouresant green, some are close to an inch and a half!!!
Gang trolls with worm are working well with one large rainbow lost at the boat, worm and bobber fisherman are doing well casting right off the dock or the peninsula!
A few fly fisherman have arrived so we'll report how their doing "on the fly"as soon as we get reports from them.
Just in from a fellow using a worm and float that the fish are very aggressive this morning and taking a moving worm hard, one fish kept was full of scuds.
Fall fishing is here finally!!

Fishing has been slow since the short cold spell last weekend, fish did take leeches recently with a 2.5 lb rainbow giving the fly angler a good fight. Boatman hatches appear to be done for the year. It's been a strange fall, the fall feed has yet to materialize, there are fish porpiousing taking something just under the surface yet unseen by anyone, it could be daphnia or very small chironomids. Fish have small snails in their stomachs so they are in the shallows and weed beds feeding but not active as anticipated.