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Uncha Lake, south of Francois Lake, has good fishing for rainbow trout and big char. Some anglers have even reported char greater than 30 pounds. If you are fishing for char, make sure your lure goes deep as they retreat to colder water in the heat of the summer months. The most popular lures are the Flatfish, T50 and T60 in a silver or coho blue colour. Other colours are also popular, including lures in black, red and white. Roger Kyncl from Moosehorn Lodge says that the rainbow trout fishing is also great: “So many things work really well.” Small Apex seem to be consistent producers. Trolling works best, he adds. Fly fishers may want to try standard patterns such as Doc Spratleys, leeches and Woolly Worms. Either troll with these patterns about six feet below the surface, or cast and strip. For these trout, try areas near bays. If you are familiar with Uncha Lake, share your stories on the Angler’s Atlas! Photos, videos, map markers and more can be posted at anglersatlas.com. Or, download our the Angler’s Atlas app for iOS and Android, and post your stories live from wherever you are! LAKE ACCESS From Burns Lake follow Highway 35 south to the Francois Lake ferry and cross the lake. Turn left immediately after leaving the ferry onto Uncha Lake Road. The lake offers two accommodation options for anglers—Moosehorn Lodge, located on the north shore of the lake, and a recreation site on the south shore. There is good signage guiding travellers to Moosehorn Lodge, located just off the Uncha Lake Road. The lodge offers 12 log cabin rentals, space for 20 full-hookup RVs, numerous camping pads and boat rentals. To get to the forest recreation site, continue along Uncha Road until meeting Campbell Road. Turn right here (south), and continue about four kilometres to Binta Road. Turn left (east) and continue for another 8 kilometres. The site is located on the left side (north). Angler’s Atlas member FordManiac reports that this boat launch is fairly shallow, and that moored boats can be subject to high winds here.

Uncha lake camping 2014

There is a beautiful Forest service campsite on the south side of the lake about half way down. It is logging road access and will accommodate 30ft travel trailer. The boat launch is extremely shallow having to back out into the lake over 50 ft to launch my 20 ft boat. Due to the orientation of the site it gets afternoon wind blowing straight in. Had to park my boat in a little bay around the back of the campsite down a 100 meter road so that it didn't get smashed up. The fishing was good for rainbows and we did catch one char. Happy fishing.