Beaver Creek is a tributary creek flowing into Columbia River. Recorded fish: Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Bull Trout, Burbot, Cutthroat Trout, Kokanee, Lake Trout, Lake Whitefish, Mountain Whitefish, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, White Sturgeon.
The water
It flows into Columbia River within the Lower Arrow Lake watershed (Lower Arrow Lake → Columbia River). It runs stream order 5 (well down the network, toward river scale; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 29 km. Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Bull Trout, Burbot, Cutthroat Trout, Kokanee, Lake Trout, Lake Whitefish, Mountain Whitefish, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, White Sturgeon, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (408 records). Named tributaries: Marsh Creek, Hudu Creek, Archibald Creek, Beavervale Creek, Query Creek, Bell Creek, Linnie Creek, Fruitvale Creek, Hammond Creek.
The fishing
As a small stream, a tributary of Columbia River, Beaver Creek fishes the way creeks of its size do: short drifts with a buoyant attractor dry over a light dropper, working the pocket water and the heads of pools. Match the fly box to the season and confirm against a current local report.
Conditions
- Navigability: driftable with caution: wide, low-gradient sections suit a float/raft, but rated rapids or canyon-confined reaches interrupt them; check the drift map (median channel width ~14.7 m, wide; median gradient ~0.38%, very gentle; peak mean-annual discharge ~0.697 m³/s, very low flow; canyon-confined sections with ~103 m walls (DEM)).
Access & the rules
Access for Beaver Creek, meaning the roads in, put-ins and any walk-in or seasonal limits, is worth confirming locally before you commit a day. The drainage map shows how the water sits in its valley.
