Butte Creek is a short, steep tributary of Haskins Creek with no confirmed sport fishery. Provincial data records zero direct fish observations here, only inferred fish context carried down from the wider Healy Creek drainage.
The water
Butte Creek carries an official name in the Kootenay Land District (key JAQNA, map 082K11), fixed at 50.573611, -117.257500. It flows into Haskins Creek, which in turn flows into Healy Creek on its way toward the Lardeau drainage. It runs stream order 3 (low on the network, on a scale that runs from 1 for a headwater trickle up to 6 or more for a full river), stretches roughly 2 km, and holds zero direct fish records in the provincial data extraction, about what you would expect from a short, steep, non-fish-bearing headwater tributary.
The fishing
With no confirmed sportfish, no guide coverage and no fishing reports, there is nothing here to recommend as a destination. Bull trout use the wider Healy Creek drainage downstream, but that is an inferred signal carried across the branch, not a direct Butte Creek record. Treat Butte Creek as habitat and drainage context alongside Haskins Creek rather than a place to plan a day around.
Conditions
- Navigability: wade and technical, very steep gradient and pocket water (median width ~9.3 m, moderate; gradient ~23.63%, very steep; peak mean-annual discharge ~0.271 m³/s, very low flow), consistent with a short non-fish-bearing headwater tributary.
- Stocking: no stocking record.
Access and the rules
There is no fishery to organize access around here yet, and no confirmed public access has been found. Historic MINFILE mine workings sit on Silver Cup ridge in the neighboring Haskins Creek drainage, so old road cuts and mine disturbance are the notable ground features nearby rather than any established fishing access. If you are moving through the Haskins/Healy drainage, the Region 4 regional defaults apply on paper to this tributary.
