No water-specific exception is listed for Ferguson Creek in the current Region 4 table. It falls under the Trout Lake tributary bucket: bull trout are catch-and-release, and the regional stream default applies (closed April 1 to June 14, single barbless hooks, trout and char release Nov 1 to Mar 31) unless a future in-season correction says otherwise. Confirm the current synopsis before you fish.

NRCan lists Ferguson Creek as an official Kootenay Land District name at 50.674722, -117.473333. It runs stream order 5 (well down the network toward river scale, on a scale that runs from 1 for a headwater trickle up to 6 or more for a full river), stretches roughly 17 km, and joins Lardeau Creek before that system reaches Trout Lake. Parisian Creek and Mountain Goat Creek are child waters in the same branch.

Every direct fish record pulled from provincial data for Ferguson Creek is bull trout, six in total, and Kootenay Lake bull trout survey work groups the creek with Lardeau Creek in the Trout Lake tributary monitoring set. A 2014 closed-loop stream enhancement survey covered 3.7 km of Ferguson Creek, including a kilometre of Parisian Creek, and found no redds or adfluvial bull trout in that stretch, a result the report treats as inconclusive rather than as proof the creek sees no spawning use.

No invertebrate survey has been logged for Ferguson Creek. The working food model follows the bull trout's own diet: sculpin and juvenile trout where the water clears enough to hold them, with the lighter mayfly, caddis, stonefly and terrestrial hatches common to small Kootenay tributaries filling in behind. Where conditions and regulations allow a cast, small to medium sculpin-pattern streamers such as the Woolly Bugger carry the best odds, backed by a Prince, Hare's Ear or Pheasant Tail nymph and a Stimulator, Elk Hair Caddis, Adams or Royal Wulff on top.

No named trailhead, parking area or put-in is confirmed for Ferguson Creek, and no fishing guide lists it as a destination. The broader Goat Range Park country sits to the north of the Lardeau/Duncan drainage with the same conservation-sensitive framing; confirm current road, trail and land-tenure status before treating any upper reach as accessible.