Greenland Creek

River
8.26 km
Mapped channels
Greenland Creek is a small, steep tributary of Skookumchuck Creek with no confirmed sport fishery. Provincial fish-inventory data records no sportfish here, and the one online catch log, a chain pickerel, reads as a mistagged or misidentified record rather than a real fish, since chain pickerel have no established range in interior BC.
No live gauge
No gauge readings are available for this water.
Season
Driving directions

At a glance

Fact
Details
Type
Non-sport tributary
Drainage
Into Skookumchuck Creek, then the Kootenay
Size
Stream order 4 · ~8 km
Fish
No sportfish records
Water
Wade / technical, steep

Region 4 Regulations — guide reviewed 2026-07-07

On paper Greenland falls under the Skookumchuck Creek Classified Water rules (trout and char catch-and-release, bait ban, Class II when and where open, tributaries included), but it holds no confirmed sportfish population. Confirm the current synopsis if you intend to fish nearby.

Measurements

Measurement
Reported value
Median channel width
4.7 m
Median channel gradient
9.3 %
Mean annual discharge estimate
0.62 m³/s

The water

Greenland carries an official provincial name in the Kootenay Land District, recognized in 1957, at 49.9589, -116.1561. It flows into skookumchuck creek, which in turn flows into the kootenay river. It runs stream order 4 (mid-range in the network, on a scale that runs from 1 for a headwater trickle up to 6 or more for a full river), stretches roughly 8 km, and has zero fish records in provincial inventory data, about what you would expect from a small, non-fish-bearing headwater tributary.

The fishing

With no confirmed sportfish, no guide coverage and no fishing reports, there is nothing here to recommend as a destination. The single online log claiming a chain pickerel does not change the official no-sportfish designation, which stands until a survey says otherwise. Think of Greenland Creek as habitat and context within the Skookumchuck drainage rather than a place to plan a day around.
Fact
Details
Non-sport tributary
Into Skookumchuck Creek
Stream order 4
~8 km
No sportfish
Zero inventory records
Wade / technical
Steep, pocket water

Conditions

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Navigability: wade and technical, steep gradient and pocket water (median width ~4.7 m, narrow; gradient ~9.3%, very steep; peak mean-annual discharge ~0.62 m³/s, very low flow), consistent with a small non-fish-bearing headwater tributary.
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Stocking: no stocking record.

Access and the rules

There is no fishery to organise access around here. If you are moving through the Skookumchuck drainage, the classified rules on the parent creek still apply to this tributary on paper.

Before you fish

On paper Greenland Creek carries the Skookumchuck Creek Classified Water rules, trout and char catch-and-release, bait banned, Class II when and where open, tributaries included, but it holds no confirmed sportfish. Confirm the current Region 4 synopsis before fishing the drainage.
Page reviewed 2026-07-07