No water-specific listing exists for Five Mile Creek in the Region 4 synopsis. It falls under the general Trout Lake tributary bucket, where bull trout are catch-and-release. Region 4 streams close generally April 1 to June 14, trout and char must be released in streams from Nov 1 to Mar 31, and single barbless hooks are required on all Region 4 streams unless a water carries its own exception. Confirm the current synopsis before you fish.

NRCan's Geographical Names registry places Five Mile Creek at 50.668889, -117.451944 in the Kootenay Land District. It runs stream order 2 (near the headwater end of a scale that runs from 1, a trickle, up to 6 or more for a full river) and stretches roughly one kilometre before it reaches lardeau creek, which in turn drains to Trout Lake. That is short enough, and close enough to other similarly named creeks in the province, that any outside Five Mile Creek note should be checked against this coordinate before it gets attached to this page.

Zero direct fish observations exist for this reach. The wider Lardeau Creek system carries an inferred Trout Lake sportfish signal that includes bull trout, and this creek sits inside that broader drainage, but nothing has confirmed a population here specifically. Treat it as a map note and a regulation-and-access check first, not a fishing destination, until a field report or provincial survey says otherwise.

If a lower reach does hold fish, the working food model for small Lardeau-system water is mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies and terrestrials, the same tiny-stream insects that carry the rest of the drainage. No Five Mile Creek-specific hatch data has turned up to confirm timing or density.

No named trailhead, road or put-in has turned up for Five Mile Creek, and there is no fishing-guide coverage of it. Reaching the lardeau creek drainage generally means the Trout Lake road network out of Gerrard or Trout Lake village; confirm current road status and any private-land sections before walking in.