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Rivers & Lakes · Columbia Valley Tributary

Red Line Creek

A small tributary of Horsethief Creek in the Columbia Valley near Invermere. Provincial fish-inventory data carries no direct observations here, so this stays a field-check water rather than a confirmed fishery.

Red Line Creek is a small tributary of Horsethief Creek in the Columbia Valley near Invermere, one of the family of small feeder creeks (alongside Stockdale, McDonald, Fan and others) that drain into Horsethief Creek before it reaches the Columbia River. Provincial fish-inventory data carries no direct observations here, so it stays a field-check water rather than a confirmed fishery.

The water

The creek's mouth sits at 50.50292, -116.42930, within the Horsethief Creek drainage in the Radium-Invermere-Fairmont corridor. No stream-order, channel-geometry or discharge figures were confirmed for Red Line Creek specifically in the local extraction, and no dedicated survey or beat data was found. That leaves size, gradient and flow character unconfirmed, unlike the better-documented water on Horsethief Creek itself.

The fishing

With no direct fish records in the local extract, there is nothing confirmed to plan a trip around. If a legal, fishable reach with coldwater fish turns up, small-stream attractors and naturals are the sensible starting point: an Adams, Elk Hair Caddis or Stimulator up top, a Hare's Ear or Prince Nymph underneath, and small Terrestrials (Hoppers, Ants, Beetles) through summer. Mayflies, Caddisflies (Sedges) and Stoneflies are the likely food base if coldwater fish are present, the same insect community that drives the fishing on Horsethief Creek and its better-documented siblings.

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Horsethief tributary
Into Horsethief Creek, then the Columbia
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No confirmed records
None in local fish-inventory data
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Size unconfirmed
No stream-order or gradient data on file
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Field-check water
Access and fish-bearing status unconfirmed
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Treat this as an open field check

Nothing here is confirmed: not the fish, not the access, not the channel size. Log any direct observation of Red Line Creek as an observation first and a conclusion second before it changes this page.

Access and the rules

No named trailhead, road access point or parking area has been confirmed for Red Line Creek. It sits within the same Columbia Valley forest road network that serves Horsethief Creek and its other tributaries near Invermere, but no source ties a specific route or put-in to this creek.

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Before you fish

No Red Line Creek-specific exception appears in the checked Region 4 rules, so the regional default applies: streams are closed Apr 1 to Jun 14, trout and char are catch-and-release from Nov 1 to Mar 31, and a single barbless hook is required on all streams. Confirm the current Region 4 synopsis and any in-season notices before fishing.