Little Lamb Creek

Little Lamb Creek is a tributary creek flowing into Lamb Creek. Recorded fish: Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout.

The water

It flows into Lamb Creek within the Kootenay Lake watershed (Kootenay Lake → Kootenay 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 7 km. Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (8 records). The fish-passage model expects Bull Trout here too, since the reach is reachable with no barrier between, though there is no direct record yet.

The fishing

As a small stream, a tributary of Lamb Creek, Little Lamb 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: wade water: narrow channel, fish on foot (median channel width ~2.6 m, narrow; median gradient ~7.55%, steep; peak mean-annual discharge ~0.195 m³/s, very low flow).

Access & the rules

Access for Little Lamb 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.