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Tiger Creek

A creek in the Lower Arrow Lake watershed, a tributary of Trail Creek, holding Rainbow and Brook Trout in provincial fish-inventory records.

Tiger Creek is a tributary creek flowing into Trail Creek. Recorded fish: rainbow, brook trout.

The water

It flows into Trail Creek within the Lower Arrow Lake watershed (Lower Arrow Lake → Columbia River). It runs stream order 2 (high in the network, near the headwaters; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 4 km. Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (4 records).

The fishing

As a small stream, a tributary of Trail Creek, Tiger 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.

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Tributary Creek
Lower Arrow Lake watershed
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Stream order 2
~4 km
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Rainbow and Brook Trout
4 records
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Wade Water

Conditions

  • Navigability: wade water: narrow channel, fish on foot (median channel width ~2.6 m, narrow; median gradient ~29.53%, very steep; peak mean-annual discharge ~0.208 m³/s, very low flow).

Access & the rules

Access for Tiger 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.

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Before you fish

Confirm the current BC freshwater fishing regulations (Region 4 – Kootenay) before you go This water is part of the Trail Creek system.. Official synopsis: gov.bc.ca fishing regulations.