Perry Creek is a tributary creek flowing into St. Mary River. Recorded fish: Brook Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Dolly Varden, Mountain Whitefish, Rainbow Trout, Steelhead, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout.
The water
It flows into St. Mary River within the St. Mary River watershed (St. Mary River → Kootenay River). It runs stream order 4 (mid-range in the network; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 36 km. Brook Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Dolly Varden, Mountain Whitefish, Rainbow Trout, Steelhead, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (84 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. Named tributaries: Staples Creek, Galway Creek, Lisbon Creek, France Creek, London Creek, Waverley Creek, Glasgow Creek, Limerick Creek, Liverpool Creek, Dublin Creek, Paris Creek, Walsh Creek, Rome Creek.
Stocking
For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the stocking record is the fishing report. Perry Creek is a put-and-take angling fishery, stocked with catchable game fish: 11 recorded releases totalling 118,800 fish (Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Brook Trout), last stocked 1953-01-01.
Perry Creek — 118,800 fish stocked, 1924–1953
Cutthroat Trout, Brook Trout. Source: Province of BC — FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.
| Year | Cutthroat Trout | Brook Trout |
|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 10,000 | · |
| 1951 | 10,000 | · |
| 1950 | 10,000 | · |
| 1948 | 9,800 | · |
| 1947 | 15,000 | · |
| 1940 | 10,000 | · |
| 1932 | 10,000 | · |
| 1931 | 10,000 | · |
| 1930 | 4,000 | · |
| 1926 | 5,000 | · |
| 1924 | · | 25,000 |
Stocking appears to have wound down after 1953. Confirm whether it is still topped up or now fishes as a residual, wild population. The chart below shows the full release history.
The fishing
As a small stream, a tributary of St. Mary River, Perry 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. The stocking record below is the truest read on what you will catch.
Conditions
- Navigability: driftable: wide, low-gradient sections suit a float/raft (median channel width ~15.3 m, wide; median gradient ~1.51%, gentle; peak mean-annual discharge ~1.726 m³/s, low flow).
Access & the rules
Access for Perry 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.
