Beaver Creek is a tributary creek flowing into Columbia River. Recorded fish: Westslope cutthroat, bull trout, rainbow, cutthroat, dolly varden, kokanee.
The water
It flows into Columbia River within the Lower Arrow Lake watershed (Lower Arrow Lake → Columbia River). It runs stream order 5 (well down the network, toward river scale; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 29 km. Westslope Cutthroat Trout, Bull Trout, Rainbow Trout, cutthroat, dolly varden, Kokanee, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (408 records). Named tributaries in the index: Marsh Creek, Hudu Creek, Archibald Creek, Beavervale Creek, Query Creek, Bell Creek, Linnie Creek, Fruitvale Creek, Hammond Creek.
The fishing
As a small stream, a tributary of Columbia River, Beaver 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: driftable with caution: wide, low-gradient sections suit a float/raft, but rated rapids or canyon-confined reaches interrupt them; check the drift map (median channel width ~14.7 m, wide; median gradient ~0.38%, very gentle; peak mean-annual discharge ~0.697 m³/s, very low flow; canyon-confined sections with ~103 m walls (DEM)).
Access & the rules
Access for Beaver 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.
