Cooper Creek is a tributary creek flowing into South Moyie Creek. Recorded fish: Westslope cutthroat, rainbow.
The water
It flows into South Moyie Creek within the Kootenay Lake watershed (Kootenay Lake → Kootenay River). It runs stream order 2 (high in the network, near the headwaters; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 6 km. Westslope Cutthroat Trout, Rainbow Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (13 records).
The fishing
As a small stream, a tributary of South Moyie Creek, Cooper 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 in sections only, this river carries verified Class IV+ whitewater; never float beyond water you have scouted, and expect mandatory portages (median channel width ~18.7 m, wide; median gradient ~3.42%, moderate; peak mean-annual discharge ~8.291 m³/s, moderate flow; verified whitewater up to Class IV on this river (American Whitewater)).
Access & the rules
Access for Cooper 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.
