Vancouver Island anglers no longer need to travel to the B.C. Mainland to fish for the celebrated small-lake kokanee.
The Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC and provincial fisheries staff recently announced that after several years of testing, two small lakes on Vancouver Island have now been established as stocked kokanee lake fisheries.
Located in the central Island mountains, Shelton Lake is about 25 kilometres west of the Nanaimo, and is accessed off Nanaimo Lakes Road via M Branch (1 km) and then G Branch (3.5