Hawkins Creek is a tributary creek flowing into Moyie River. Recorded fish: Westslope cutthroat, bull trout, rainbow, cutthroat, dolly varden, kokanee.
The water
It flows into Moyie River within the Kootenay Lake watershed (Kootenay Lake → Kootenay 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 18 km. Westslope Cutthroat Trout, Bull Trout, Rainbow Trout, cutthroat, dolly varden, Kokanee, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (61 records). Named tributaries in the index: Canuck Creek, South Hawkins Creek, America Creek.
The fishing
As a small stream, a tributary of Moyie River, Hawkins 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: wide, low-gradient sections suit a float/raft (median channel width ~12 m, wide; median gradient ~1.41%, gentle; peak mean-annual discharge ~2.257 m³/s, low flow).
Access & the rules
Access for Hawkins 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.
