North Windermere Creek is an official BC Geographical Names creek that drains southwest into Windermere Creek in the upper Columbia Valley near Invermere, part of the wider Columbia River system. No fish-inventory record has been logged for the creek itself; the only fish signal on file is inherited from the connected Windermere Creek network, carried as reachable rather than confirmed here.
The water
The creek's mouth sits at 50.49306, -115.89194 (BC Geographical Names), where it meets Windermere Creek upstream of the community of Windermere and Windermere Lake. It runs stream order 5 (well down the network toward river scale, on a 1-to-6+ scale where 1 is a headwater trickle and 6+ is a full river) for roughly 6 km. The channel measures a median width of about 4.0 m (narrow), a median gradient of about 8.2% (very steep), and a peak mean-annual discharge of roughly 0.234 m³/s (very low flow), a small, tight headwater tributary rather than anything approaching driftable water. No fish have been directly recorded here in provincial inventory data, though the creek is classified as reachable from the fish-bearing water on Windermere Creek with no barrier between, which is why westslope cutthroat trout, bull trout and rainbow trout are carried as inferred rather than confirmed. The connectivity model also lists dolly varden for this reach, but no wiki page exists yet for that species and no independent source confirms it on this creek, so it is flagged rather than added.
The fishing
With zero direct fish records, no guide coverage and no fishing reports specific to this tributary, North Windermere Creek is unproven water on its own. Windermere Creek downstream carries documented westslope cutthroat trout records and a historical habitat survey noting bull, rainbow, brook and cutthroat trout plus a kokanee spawning run lower toward the lake, but none of that has been confirmed this far up the system. If fish presence and legal access are ever confirmed here, it would fish as tight small-stream dry-fly water: short casts, small flies, and soft edges where a trout could hold in a channel this narrow and steep.
If it does hold fish, the same Columbia Valley small-stream calendar documented on nearby tributaries is a reasonable regional expectation rather than a confirmed local hatch: an Adams or Royal Wulff on top, a Stimulator and Elk Hair Caddis through the caddis emergence, and a Hare's Ear, Prince Nymph or Pheasant Tail underneath, plus small Stoneflies and summer Terrestrials (Hoppers, Ants, Beetles).
Unproven water
Access and the rules
No confirmed public access point, trailhead or parking area has surfaced for North Windermere Creek specifically. Windermere Creek itself, which this tributary feeds, runs through the community of Windermere past private land and a campground near its own mouth, with no confirmed public trailhead there either, so treat this whole headwater system as an access unknown until checked locally. Kootenay Troutfitters is the nearest established Columbia Valley guide operation, though no source confirms dedicated guiding on either creek.
Before you fish
Conditions
- Navigability: median width ~4.0 m (narrow), median gradient ~8.2% (very steep), peak mean-annual discharge ~0.234 m³/s (very low flow), stream order 5 on a 1-to-6+ headwater-to-river scale. Small, tight, wade-only water.
- Stocking: no stocking record. Any fish present would be wild, moving up from the Windermere Creek and Columbia River system.
