Monument Creek is a tributary creek flowing into Lemon Creek. Recorded fish: bull trout, rainbow.
The water
It flows into Lemon Creek within the Slocan River watershed (Slocan River → Kootenay River). It runs stream order 3 (mid-range in the network; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 7 km. Bull Trout, Rainbow Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (12 records).
The fishing
As a small stream, a tributary of Lemon Creek, Monument 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: wade / technical: steep gradient, pocket water (median channel width ~7.6 m, moderate width; median gradient ~14.89%, very steep; peak mean-annual discharge ~0.477 m³/s, very low flow).
Access & the rules
Access for Monument 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.
