Access & Places
Wooden Shoe Lake (Trailhead)
Key points
- Access: short 0.7 km hike in .
- Fish: often full of cutthroat .
- Why: alpine lakes stay productive through the Kootenay's hot, dry summers .
- Nearby alpine option: Boundary Lake (west up Kootenay Pass) — cutthroat, Dolly Varden, brook trout, with a rec-site campground .
Open questions
- Exact trailhead coordinates and road access.
Related
- Westslope Cutthroat Trout — the catch.
- Small-Stream Dry-Fly for Cutthroat — applies to inlet/outlet too.
Where next
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Home water
Norns Creek
A creek in the Lower Arrow Lake watershed, a tributary of Columbia River, holding Brook Trout, Bull Trout and Cutthroat Trout in provincial fish-inventory recor
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Blacktail Ridge Fishing & Eco Retreat
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