Brown Trout in B.C.
Just wondering if there are any browns in B.C., preferably in the lower mainland area. Never hear much about browns in the area. Any info appreciated

Your best bet would be the Cowichan River on Vancouver Island. Apparently there are fish upto 15 pounds. There are a couple other rivers on the island as well that hold browns I believe. As for the lower mainland, I dont know of any what so ever.

Hey Tom... when I moved from Ontario I gave up three big things in my life: smallies, brookies and brownies. There are a lot fish here that we cannot catch in Ont though so it all evens out. The fishing is a lot different. Nothin' like the Ganny here though. Born 'n raised in port hope.

the Cowichan, Little Qualicum and Adam Rivers on the Island all have some Browns. The Cowichan has the best numbers. The Adam is recently stocked and may be a sleeper. There are Browns in cameron lake which is the source of the Little Q.

The Kettle in the interior has a remnant population from stocking in the late 50's. The Yakima in Washington State (east of Seattle) also has browns in reasonable numbers.

No Browns in the Ketlle anymore. Just a lot of carp, squawfish!!!!!!! The carp are huge though, often exceeding 10 lbs. if you enjoy fishing for carp.
Speaking of Browns the other day I heard that when mating the Doe will often "play with his mind", letting him do his thing and she just swims away. Apparently they (doe's) do it several times until finding a suitable suitor, and if she doesn't find the right guy she'll go back to the dejected second best. I don't know I suppose it keeps the genes up. Anyone know anymore about this?

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The kettle is the only river I know of in BC that has brookies, browns, and rainbows. I once caught one of each on a days fishing there about 4 years ago.

Pat

The Grandby also has both rainbows and brookies. My father told me he caught a Brown there in the early 70's. Having started sportfishing in Europe I'm sure he knew what one looked like.

I wonder why no work is done to enhance Browns in the Kettle? With it's large populations of scrap fish and warm summer temperatures and great riffle and pool structure it looks like a natural. I suppose there isn't the money plus stocking exotics isn't consistent with policy.
There was a plan to stock the Similkameen below Princton (particularly around Keremeos) back in the 60's but it never came off.

An interesting mix of comments about Browns in the Kettle. I've heard there WERE Browns. Who is right, I wonder? Pat or Buckman? anyone have more detail?

I have also heard rumours of Browns in Sayers, remnants of an old hatchery program I think. I can offer nothing to back this up, just heard this from a guard at the net pens.

Al

There are Browns in the kettle river.(To Jesse Zeman) I was fishing the kettle a few weeks ago and caught a small one in the 13" range on an ice cream cone black chironomid.A flyfisherman from Penticton,BC three days before that caught a nice 4lb brown.The workers at the sawmill saw it and the local residents have stated that there are bigger ones in the river.Just got to catch it on the right time of year.

Try munroe and dennet lake on burke mountain.Theese lakes have lots of nice little brookies,The hike in can be a bugger but its worth it.

There were supposed to be Brookies in Sayers, not browns

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