Not a sport fishery. Provincial fish-inventory data records no sportfish in this small, steep Lardeau Creek tributary, and old mining exploration near its headwaters adds an access and hazard note rather than any evidence of a fishery.
Ottawa Creek is a small, steep tributary of Lardeau Creek with no confirmed sport fishery. Provincial data records zero sportfish here, and BC's MINFILE geological survey places the old Jewell prospect near its head, with the creek flowing northeast into Lardeau Creek through old mining country.
The water
Ottawa carries an official provincial name in the Kootenay Land District, recognized on the NRCan gazetteer at 50.624722, -117.300833. It flows northeast into Lardeau Creek, which in turn drains to Trout Lake. It runs 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), stretches roughly 6 km, and has zero fish records in provincial inventory data, in keeping with a small, no-sportfish headwater creek high in mining country.
The fishing
With no confirmed sportfish, no guide coverage and no fishing reports, there is nothing here to recommend as a destination. No food or hatch survey has been logged for the creek either. Treat Ottawa Creek as habitat, access and hazard context within the Lardeau Creek drainage rather than a place to plan an outing around.
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Non-sport tributary
Into Lardeau Creek
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Stream order 3
~6 km
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No sportfish
Zero inventory records
terrain
Old mining ground
Jewell prospect near its head
warning
Old workings: a hazard note, not a hatch note
BC's MINFILE geological survey places the old Jewell prospect near the head of Ottawa Creek. Treat that mining history as an access and hazard flag rather than any sign of a fishery: confirm current road, tenure, slope and water-quality conditions before scouting the upper creek.
Conditions & stocking
Navigability: the channel-geometry numbers (median width ~5.0 m, narrow; gradient ~5.31%, steep; peak mean-annual discharge ~0.602 m³/s, very low flow) are consistent with a small, non-fish-bearing headwater creek.
Stocking: no stocking record. No fish records exist on Ottawa Creek at all.
Access and the rules
There is no fishery to organise access around here. The creek sits in old mining country toward the head of the Lardeau Creek drainage; treat any road or trail into the area as unconfirmed for condition, tenure and closures until checked directly with the relevant land-use authority.
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Before you fish
On paper Ottawa Creek would carry the same Region 4 stream default that covers the wider Lardeau Creek drainage: trout and char catch-and-release Nov 1 to Mar 31, streams closed Apr 1 to Jun 14, single barbless hook year-round. But it holds no confirmed sportfish population, so plan any drainage-wide trip around Lardeau Creek itself. Confirm the current Region 4 synopsis before fishing nearby.
