A short Westfall River tributary in the Duncan Lake watershed, one of two same-named creeks in the region. No direct fish records exist for this specific water, so it reads as habitat and context rather than a destination, though the wider bull trout spawning story of the Westfall drainage applies to it by default.
McDonald Creek joins the Westfall River within the Duncan Lake watershed. It is one of two same-named creeks in the region: this page covers the Westfall-drainage water, while a separate McDonald Creek drains into the Columbia system near Horsethief Creek. This creek carries no direct provincial fish records of its own, but the bull trout spawning-system context that defines the wider Westfall drainage applies to it by default.
The water
NRCan's Geographical Names registry lists this Kootenay Land District creek at 50.811111, -117.358333. The local waterway index places it in the Upper Duncan / Duncan Reservoir tributary group, running roughly stream order 3 (low in the network, on a scale that runs from 1 for a headwater trickle up to 6 or more for a full river) over about 6 km before it reaches the Westfall. No direct fish observations turned up in the provincial named-line extraction for this creek; the only signal is the inferred Upper Duncan bull trout context that covers the whole drainage.
The fishing
There is no confirmed fishery here to plan a trip around. Bull trout pass through the wider Westfall system to spawn, and the Duncan Reservoir monitoring reports treat Westfall's tributaries as part of that spawning network in general terms, but nothing in the record confirms bull trout actually using McDonald Creek itself. Best treated as scouting and habitat water within the Westfall drainage rather than a destination, until a survey says otherwise.
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Westfall tributary
Upper Duncan / Duncan Lake drainage
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Stream order 3
~6 km
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No direct records
Inferred bull trout context only
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Wade / scout
Small headwater-scale creek
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Two McDonald Creeks, one watershed apart
This is the Westfall River McDonald Creek, in the Duncan Lake watershed. A separate McDonald Creek drains into the Columbia system near Horsethief Creek. Check the watershed before carrying a note from one creek to the other.
Access and the rules
No named road, trailhead or put-in is confirmed for this creek. If you are moving through the Westfall drainage, the Duncan Lake tributary rules below apply to it on paper even without a confirmed fishery.
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Before you fish
No McDonald Creek-specific exception is listed. By default it sits under Duncan Lake tributary and Upper Duncan River context: bull trout release, the regional stream closure of Apr 1 to Jun 14, and single barbless hooks required on all Region 4 streams. Confirm the current Region 4 synopsis before fishing the drainage.
Conditions
Navigability: no creek-specific channel-geometry data is confirmed for this water.
Stocking: no stocking record. It is not part of the FFSBC hatchery catalog.
