Shawnigan Lake

At a glance

Area

541 ha (1,337 acres)

Mean depth (estimated)

≈ 15.0 m (49 ft)

Mean depth: HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016)

Who lives here

• Coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutchSurveyed · 1950 · Fish observations: Province of British Columbia, Known BC Fish Observations (FISS), under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia
• Pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuschaSurveyed · 2007 · Fish observations: Province of British Columbia, Known BC Fish Observations (FISS), under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia
• Pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosusSurveyed · 2003 · Fish observations: Province of British Columbia, Known BC Fish Observations (FISS), under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia
• Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykissSurveyed · 2026 · Fish observations: Province of British Columbia, Known BC Fish Observations (FISS), under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia
• Smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieuSurveyed · 2007 · Fish observations: Province of British Columbia, Known BC Fish Observations (FISS), under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia
• Threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatusSurveyed · 1984 · Fish observations: Province of British Columbia, Known BC Fish Observations (FISS), under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia
• Yellow perch Perca flavescensSurveyed · 2007 · Fish observations: Province of British Columbia, Known BC Fish Observations (FISS), under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia

Not listed doesn't mean no fish.

Getting on the water

No public access site is listed for this water yet.

Listed by public agencies. A listed site doesn't make the water or its shore open to fishing: when in doubt, it's unknown. Check signs and local rules.

The rules

Summary, not the law. Check the official regulations before you fish.

HuntGrid has no rules for this water yet.

Official regulations: BC Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship

What's biting

Not enough anglers have shared catches here lately. A species shows for a week once at least 5 anglers share catches of it.

From anglers who chose to share their catches in HuntGrid Fishing, each counted once, counts rounded to the nearest 5, published 3 days after the week ends and never changed. Never a spot, time or name.

Questions

What fish are in Shawnigan Lake?

Cited sources list Coho salmon, Pink salmon, Pumpkinseed, Rainbow trout, Smallmouth bass, Threespine stickleback and Yellow perch. A fish that isn't listed may still be there.

Is Shawnigan Lake stocked?

71 stockings are on record, the latest in 2026 (Rainbow Trout), as the agency publishes them.

Waters nearby

• Prospect Lake · 16 km
• Thetis Lake · 17 km

About this page

Sources and licences:

• Natural Resources Canada, CanVec Hydro Features (1:50,000). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.; Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB); Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Boundary Files (census divisions and subdivisions, provinces). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• Lake mean depth: HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016, Nature Communications 7:13603), CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 4.0
• Fish observations: Province of British Columbia, Known BC Fish Observations (FISS), under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia · Open Government Licence – British Columbia (https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=A519A56BC2BF44E4A008B33FCF527F61, checked 2026-10-18): the BC Data Catalogue record aca81811-4b08-4382-9af7-204e0b9d2448 "Known BC Fish Observations and BC Fish Distributions" is PUBLIC (view and download audience Public, security PUBLIC) under licence id 2, "Open Government Licence - British Columbia" — "You are free to copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose." Attribution required; no non-commercial or no-redistribution limit.
• Fish stocking: Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC (gofishbc.com). Water locations: contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia (Freshwater Atlas) · Used with permission of the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC (written reply to data@huntgrid.net, 2026-10-29: "Yes, you can use the fish stocking report data … Please attribute the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC as the source of the information."). Water names and points: Province of British Columbia, Freshwater Atlas, Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

The outline is drawn from the official water data credited above; the map under it is OpenStreetMap's, credited on the map. These pages show no angler's catches, spots or tracks.