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Tenise Creek

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Regulations
Confirm the current Region 4 table before fishing. In this batch, no individual Tenise Creek exception was found beyond Duncan Lake tributary / Upper Duncan bull trout release context and general stream rules .

Key points

  • Identity: NRCan lists Tenise Creek as an official Kootenay Land District creek at 50.596111, -116.735556 .
  • Fish signal: the local extraction found one record, a Bull Trout .
  • Fishing angle: one record is enough to flag conservation value, not enough to justify pressure. Confirm legality, access and habitat before any field note becomes an angling plan.
  • Food: likely small Mayflies, Caddisflies (Sedges), Stoneflies, Terrestrials (Hoppers, Ants, Beetles) and tiny fish/sculpin in connected reaches; direct Tenise-specific food evidence was not found.
  • Best flies: if legal and appropriate, small Prince Nymph, Elk Hair Caddis, Stimulator, Adams, Royal Wulff or a small Woolly Bugger. Keep the default answer conservative.
  • Guides: no Tenise Creek-specific guide coverage found.

Health & stewardship

  • Single-record caution: treat Tenise as a bull trout habitat note in the Duncan/Howser system until better fisheries data appears.

Open questions

  • Confirm public access, fish-bearing length, seasonal flow and any habitat constraints.

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