Classified Water (Michel Creek CW), split at the easternmost Highway 3 bridge. Both reaches are closed to fishing Sep 1 to Oct 31. The downstream reach runs trout/char daily quota 1, none under 30 cm, with bull trout catch-and-release and a bait ban Jun 15 to Aug 31; the upstream reach runs trout/char catch-and-release with the same bait ban. Class II applies when and where open, tributaries included, and non-resident anglers need the Michel Creek classified licence. Confirm the current synopsis and in-season page before you fish.

Michel Creek lower watershed; Alexander Creek itself is ungauged

Weather reference: Sparwood (49.733, -114.885).

NRCan/GeoGratis lists Alexander Creek as an official Kootenay Land District creek (key JABNB) at 49.674444, -114.780556. It flows into Michel Creek, which drains into the Elk River at Sparwood, so Alexander sits two links up from the Elk mainstem. West Alexander Creek enters upstream and carries its own direct cutthroat and brook trout records. Provincial fish-inventory data logs 20 direct observations on the main Alexander line: 6 rainbow trout, 6 brook trout, 5 westslope cutthroat, 2 cutthroat-rainbow hybrids and 1 bull trout, a smaller, more mixed sample than Michel Creek's 307 records nearby.

Kootenay Fly Shop & Guiding says Alexander holds good populations of large westslope cutthroat, though not the density of Michel Creek. Dave Brown Outfitters lists Alexander alongside Michel, the Wigwam and the Fording in its Fernie small-stream program, where anglers walk, fish light rods and fish dry flies when conditions allow. Cover the water quietly, work the deeper buckets and structure, and drop to a smaller dry-dropper rig once the big attractors stop moving fish. With rainbow trout, brook trout and cutthroat-rainbow hybrids all in the direct record alongside westslope cutthroat, careful fish identification matters more here than on a single-species creek.

Alexander shares the same Fernie and Elk River hatch spine as Michel Creek: Golden stoneflies near the opener, Western Green Drakes, PMDs and Light Cahills, Yellow Sallies, caddisflies from mid-June through October, terrestrials in August, and Blue-Winged Olives and October caddis into fall. Start with a Stimulator, Chubby Chernobyl or Royal Wulff, move to a small Elk Hair Caddis or Adams as fish get selective, and carry Pat's Rubber Legs, Prince, Hare's Ear, Pheasant Tail and Copper John nymphs plus a foam hopper or ant for August. Keep any streamer small, sparse and bull-trout-aware, and only where the current regulations allow it.

The Crown Mountain coking coal project's fish and fish-habitat assessment places most of its proposed footprint inside the Alexander Creek watershed and references a dedicated Alexander Creek westslope cutthroat population study. After environmental regulators asked for more downstream fish-health sampling near the West Alexander Creek confluence, the project added two more baseline sampling locations below that point. The same assessment reports no fish present in the upper reaches it sampled, so do not assume the whole mapped length is fishable trout water; the population lives in the lower and middle creek.

Alexander Creek's classified-water boundary runs at the easternmost Highway 3 bridge, the same landmark used on the Michel Creek listing nearby. Kootenay Fly Shop & Guiding and Dave Brown Outfitters both publish Alexander Creek in their small-stream coverage, though no dedicated Alexander guide page or named trailhead is confirmed.