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Originally Posted by CanuckShooter
The roads were govt roads and the lakes were govt stocked, and people had access until the ranch blocked the road.
The DL ranch manager even swamped a boat on one of the lakes with his helicopter one time....there is a lot of history with this set up.
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The lakes use to be stocked by the province, but Minnie and Stoney Lakes kept getting winter-killed, so the province quit stocking them. Enter Peter McVey of the Corbett Lake Lodge. He asked the Douglas Lake Ranch if he could improve the Lakes, and stock them. They agreed, so Peter took a bulldozer to the channel between the 2 lakes, as well as the inlet on Minnie, and the outlet on Stoney. He then stocked the lakes himself, and offered fishing on the lakes, for people staying at the Corbett Lake Lodge. Years later, Douglas Lake Ranch gave Peter the boot, and started offering their own trophy rainbow trout fishing experience. Douglas Lake Ranch, then continued to stock the lakes, and built the Stoney Lake Lodge. I doubt Douglas Lake Ranch will continue to stock the lakes.