Columbia Lake's tributaries are closed to fishing except Dutch Creek. Hardie Creek flows into Columbia Lake, so it falls under that closure unless an official in-season notice says otherwise. Confirm the current synopsis before fishing anywhere nearby.

Natural Resources Canada lists Hardie Creek as an official Kootenay Land District watercourse at 50.246667, -115.869167, and BC Geographical Names records it flowing into Columbia Lake. Stream-order, length and channel-geometry figures are not on record for it, and provincial fish-inventory data shows zero direct local observations on Hardie Creek itself, consistent with a small, lightly surveyed lake tributary rather than a mapped fishery.

There is no angling case to make here. Region 4 lists Columbia Lake's tributaries as no fishing except Dutch Creek, and with Hardie identified as one of those tributaries, the working rule is to leave it closed until an official in-season update says otherwise. No local fish records support a fishery even setting the closure aside, and no guide service was found advertising Hardie Creek specifically. kootenay troutfitters operates in the wider Columbia Valley and is the nearest guide context, but that does not extend to this creek under the current closure.

No named trailhead, launch or public access point is on record for Hardie Creek. Given the closure and the absence of confirmed fish, there is no reason to plan an access route here beyond general awareness of its location on the Columbia Lake shoreline near Canal Flats.