• All anglers, except those under 16, must purchase and carry a valid angling licence.
• Non-residents under 16 do not require a licence, but must be accompanied by a person who has the appropriate licences and stamps.
• You may purchase one-day, eight-day or annual licences depending on the amount of fishing you plan to do.
• The front of the basic licence contains boxes for up to five conservation surcharge stamps which include steelhead, non-tidal salmon, Kootenay Lake rainbow trout, Shuswap Lake char and Shuswap Lake rainbow trout.
• Provincial angling licences are not valid in National Parks. You must obtain a National Park Fishing Permit and Park Regulations before fishing park waters.
• For most fish, there is a limit on the number of fish you may keep. The daily quota is the maximum number of fish you may keep in one day, while the possession quota is no more than twice the daily quota. Please note quotas are not cumulative.
• Limits protect fish of certain sizes. To ensure you are within the limits, measure your fish from the tip of the nose to the fork of the tail.
• It is prohibited to use more than one fishing line, except when you are alone in a boat on a lake, when you may use two lines.
• Do not use live fish as bait as it introduces harmful species into local lakes and can ruin natural fish habitat.

To get your catch home, keep your angling licence handy while travelling. Transport no more than your legal limit and ensure your fish can be identified, counted and measured if necessary by keeping heads and tails on.

• Waste the fish you catch;
• Release fish in a harmful manner ;
• Buy, sell or barter sport-caught fish;
• Damage or interfere with a trap set for furbearers;
• Have any live fish in your possession in the wild;
• Enter or cross cultivated land, posted land, private land or Native Reserve land without proper permission;
• Fish in ecological reserves.