Boundary Creek is a small East Kootenay stream best known today for a decades-old provincial stocking record rather than a modern fishing reputation. Between 1927 and 1957 the province released rainbow trout, brook trout and westslope cutthroat trout into the creek 16 times, then stopped, and no further stocking, survey or fishing report has surfaced since.
The water
The coordinate this page uses, 49.0000, -116.52922, is the FFSBC/FIDQ release point recorded against the stocking data, not a confirmed mouth or named reach, so treat it as a starting pin rather than a precise location. Provincial stocking records file the waterbody under the Kootenay Lake watershed group, which means the creek's water eventually reaches the Kootenay River by way of Kootenay Lake, though the exact tributary chain between here and the lake has not been confirmed for this page.
The fishing
No fish-inventory records beyond the stocking log, no guide coverage and no fishing reports exist for Boundary Creek, so there is nothing here to confirm as a modern destination. The historic releases used recognizable BC hatchery stock, Pennask, Gerrard Creek and Beaver strain rainbow trout eyed eggs, brook trout fry and eggs from a Spokane, Washington source and Boundary strain broodstock, plus a single 1931 release of 5,000 westslope cutthroat fry sourced from the Cranbrook water reservoir. That mix reads as an active put-and-take program in its day rather than a one-off conservation stocking. Whether any of it carried over into a self-sustaining population, or whether the creek fishes at all today, is unconfirmed.
Read the chart as the record
Access and the rules
No access route, launch or trailhead is confirmed for Boundary Creek. Anyone scouting the East Kootenay stocking record in person should start from the release-point coordinate above and work outward; nothing more specific has surfaced. Kootenay River and the wider Kootenay Lake watershed are the eventual receiving waters downstream.
Before you fish
Stocking
For an angler judging whether this creek is worth a look, the release history below is effectively the whole fishing report. Provincial FIDQ/FFSBC data records 16 releases totalling 289,344 fish between 1927 and 1957: rainbow trout eyed eggs and fry, brook trout eyed eggs and fry, and one westslope cutthroat fry release. The largest single release was 45,000 brook trout eyed eggs in 1931; the last was 20,000 brook trout fry in 1957.
Boundary Creek — 289,344 fish stocked, 1927–1957
Rainbow Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Brook Trout. Source: Province of BC — FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.
| Year | Rainbow Trout | Cutthroat Trout | Brook Trout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | · | · | 20,000 |
| 1956 | · | · | 10,500 |
| 1950 | 25,000 | · | · |
| 1949 | 20,000 | · | · |
| 1948 | 9,900 | · | · |
| 1947 | 5,000 | · | · |
| 1946 | 19,424 | · | · |
| 1945 | 15,000 | · | · |
| 1944 | 20,000 | · | · |
| 1943 | 19,520 | · | · |
| 1942 | 20,000 | · | · |
| 1941 | 20,000 | · | · |
| 1931 | · | 5,000 | 45,000 |
| 1928 | · | · | 10,000 |
| 1927 | · | · | 25,000 |
Conditions
- Stocking: a put-and-take angling program (FFSBC classification), active 1927 to 1957 and dormant since; the chart above is the only confirmed fishing signal on file for this creek.
- Identity: the geo point is the FIDQ release-point coordinate rather than a surveyed reach or mouth, so the exact stream location, access and current species mix are unconfirmed.
