Kid Creek

Kid Creek is a tributary creek flowing into Boyd Creek. Recorded fish: Westslope cutthroat, bull trout, rainbow, cutthroat, dolly varden, kokanee.

The water

It flows into Boyd Creek within the Upper Arrow Lake watershed (Upper Arrow Lake → Columbia River). It runs stream order 3 (mid-range in the network; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 2 km. Westslope Cutthroat Trout, Bull Trout, Rainbow Trout, cutthroat, dolly varden, Kokanee, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data.

The fishing

As a small stream, a tributary of Boyd Creek, Kid 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: not a casual float: whitewater or canyon evidence on this water; treat as wade unless a guide says otherwise (median channel width ~14.3 m, wide; median gradient ~2.55%, moderate; peak mean-annual discharge ~1.719 m³/s, low flow; canyon-confined sections with ~92 m walls (DEM)).

Access & the rules

Access for Kid 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.