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Hidden Lake, in the hills east of Enderby, is a low elevation lake with a decent fishery. It is best early and late in the year. The lake is subject to heavy angling pressures due to its easy access, but despite the pressure the rainbows here can be lunkers. Hidden lake is known to produce larger rainbows up to 4 kg. Most are much smaller, and range in the average size. Each year the Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C. stocks the lake with 15,000 triploid rainbow trout of the hard-fighting pennask stock. Chironomid fishing can be spectacular. The bays along the northwest side, and also on the south side, are your best bets. With your fly hovering near the bottom, retrieve slowly. The south end is also ideal as a shelter from the wind. As a bonus, there are nice shoals and drop-offs here, too. If the fish are not on the shoals try the deeper water with Blood Leeches and Woolly Buggers. The north and south ends of the lake produce well in early June with damselfly nymphs. Cast near the reeds, again with a very slow retrieve. Early summer can be a good time to try a sedge pattern as well. Gear fishers may want to try their luck on the north end, or right into the deeper sections. Troll a Willow Leaf or a Ford Fender with smaller gear such as an Apex or a small spinner. Get to the depths with lead core line, or anchor and cast into the reeds. Have you fished Hidden Lake? Post about your experiences on the Angler’s Atlas web page for Hidden Lake at anglersatlas.com/place/100345/hidden-lake. LAKE ACCESS Hidden Lake is located 24 km east of Enderby. In Enderby turn east off of Hwy 97A onto the road leading to Mabel Lake (Enderby- Mabel Lake Rd.). Proceed on this road for 9 km and turn south on Hidden- Shuswap Rd. This road will take you to a fork in the road, take the left fork and proceed to lake. There are several camping options here, with three different recreation sites along the lake. The largest is on the east side. All have boat launches. A fee is charged from May 1st to September 30th.

We drove up to 'hidd

We drove up to 'hidden lake' today. Very well marked road and the washboard and potholes are what I'd consider medium at most. We are way late in the season now, so we only had a couple of bites on our black spratleys. The first forestry rec site we went to was beautiful, some spots were close together but lake access was fantastic from every site. Lots of areas to leave your boat while your camping, as well we were pleasently suprised to see that somone had laid carpet on the shore at most spots for fiberglass boats.