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Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC (Go Fish BC)

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Stocking: ~110 Kootenay lakes with rainbow, cutthroat, brook char, kokanee .
Hatchery: Kootenay Trout Hatchery (~32 km from Cranbrook) supplies regional strains .
Data: live stocking reports + match-the-hatch / where-to-fish guides .

Horseshoe Lake — example stocked venue.
Chironomid Under Indicator — technique they document.

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The non-profit that stocks BC lakes and publishes Go Fish BC — stocking reports, how-to articles, and where-to guides. Runs the Kootenay Trout Hatchery near Cranbrook that stocks ~110 Kootenay lakes. A primary data + education source for this vault.

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Home water Linklater Creek A compact, fish-bearing Kootenay feeder with cutthroat, brook trout and bull trout records, plus documented fish-passage work in its Purcell Creek tributary. Sc

Also working this water Cathy Fly Fisher (Cathy Fiedler) Cathy Fiedler of Creston — a Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC staffer and local fly-fishing instructor. Runs the "Women Who Fly Fish" intro classes and mentor In the field Reading River Flows (Before You Go) Decide river-vs-lake from the gauge each morning. Spring runoff blows local rivers out before ~July 1; spiking or murky flows mid-summer mean switch to lakes. P Browse The Waters Hub 1,385 named waterways across ten watershed groups — start from the map.

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