Fulton Lake

 

 

Facilities:

• Warf: No
• Boat Launch: Yes but rough, be careful
• RV Friendly: No
• Tables: No
• Toilets: Sort of, homemade and rough
• Fees: No
• Campsites: open space enough for several families
• Not Maintained
• Google Earth KML  Fulton Lake  (note unzip first)

Location:

The lake can be reached by taking the Babine Lake Road east from the town of Smithers. Go past Chapman Lake and watch for the first road to your right several kilometres past Chapman Lake, the road name has changed, its now called Tangelchain, there is a maze of roads ahead, take all of the ones on the right, except the one with a massive balanced rock, you cannot miss it. Stay right till you hit the section they now call Fulton Lake Road, I will update this once I find the km mark, but its about midpoint of Fulton Lake and a road (rough shape) goes down to the boat launch, refer to the images we included.

Due to the problems the BC Goverment is creating note that the sign on the road does not say Fulton Lake Road, below is a photos of what they now have posted. And for the record there is no such thing as the Alexis Park google has listed at the start of this road, some tree planting hippies added that to google map, when they were camping there. We will try get some drone footage next time we go there, of the area surrounding the boat launch.

Much further down the road you will come across this sign, do not make any left turns they are all roads to log landings.

Fish Species:

There is no official data available, a sad comment on conservation by the ministry of Environment.

It would be fair to suggest due to Chapman Lake being closely connected to Fulton Lake they likely share the same fish species. Lake Trout (char) Northern Pikeminnow (formerly known as squawfish) Lake Whitefish, Mountain Whitefish, Lonenose Suckers, Course Scale Suckers, Rainbow Trout (low numbers), and Pea Mouth Chub.

We can confirm that we have caught Lake Trout(char) Northern Pikeminnow (formerly known as squawfish) and Rainbow trout. The char we caught were up to 10 lbs and most of the char there are big ones. The Northern Pikeminnow were also among the largest I have ever seen in our region, and the rainbow trout all seemed to be surprisingly small.

We caught lots of fish in the lower end of the lake, its the only section worth fishing if your trolling due to snags in the upper half that is also quite shallow.

There are no Bathymetric Maps of Fulton Lake, unfortunately as that would have been a great asset. This lake is used as a reservoir to keep the gathering in Granisle running so there is a major difference in the water table with a high in late fall and a low in early spring.

 

Pictures and Video

 

We have two videos, one spring the other mid summer taken at the area of the boat launch, the summer video shows both the boat launch and  the bluff we call Bullfrog Point, when you see it from directly above it looks like the head of a giant bullfrog.

 

 

 

 

The following photos were taken of the upper half of Fulton Lake. Also of notable interest is that Fulton Lake serves as the reservoir for the salmon project near Granisle.

 

Next batch of photos refer to the google screen shot, were mostly shot on the lake itself.