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Rivers & Lakes · Stocked Stillwater

Blueberry Creek

A stocked stillwater in the Lower Arrow Lake watershed, surface area not recorded, carrying Rainbow Trout and Brook Trout and topped up by the provincial stocking program.

Blueberry Creek is a stocked stillwater in the Lower Arrow Lake watershed. Surface area not recorded.

The water

Blueberry Creek sits in the Lower Arrow Lake watershed, covering surface area not recorded.

Stocking

For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the stocking record is the fishing report. Blueberry Creek is a put-and-take angling fishery, stocked with catchable game fish: 3 recorded releases totalling 100,000 fish (Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout), last stocked 1942-01-01.

Stocking record

Blueberry Creek — 100,000 fish stocked, 1916–1942

Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout. Source: Province of BC — FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.

YearRainbow TroutBrook Trout
194230,000·
194150,000·
1916·20,000

Stocking appears to have wound down after 1942. 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

Blueberry Creek fishes as a put-grow stillwater: work chironomids under an indicator over the shoals in spring, then leech and attractor retrieves along the drop-offs as the shallows warm. The stocking record below is the truest read on the size and cohort of fish you will find.

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Stocked Stillwater
Lower Arrow Lake watershed
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Stocked
put-and-take

Conditions

  • Navigability: mixed, confirm access and flow before choosing drift vs wade (median channel width ~10.3 m, moderate width; median gradient ~2.92%, moderate; peak mean-annual discharge ~1.797 m³/s, low flow).

Access & the rules

Confirm the launch, parking and any motor/float or seasonal restrictions for Blueberry Creek locally before you commit a day; the map shows where the lake sits in its drainage.

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Before you fish

Confirm the current BC freshwater fishing regulations (Region 4 – Kootenay) before you go. Official synopsis: gov.bc.ca fishing regulations.