No individual Henretta Creek entry appears in the Region 4 synopsis. Henretta sits in the upper Fording River drainage, upstream of Josephine Falls, where Fording River Classified Water (4-23) is listed as No Fishing. Treat Henretta as closed until the exact boundary and how it applies to this tributary are confirmed with the current synopsis or Region 4 staff.

Henretta carries an official name in the Kootenay Land District, recorded by Natural Resources Canada at 50.228056, -114.871111. It joins the fording river high in the valley, well above Josephine Falls, inside the same mining-affected drainage that has drawn selenium and calcite monitoring from Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Elk Valley Water Quality Plan after waste rock from Fording River Operations and Greenhills Operations leached into the upper Fording system. Glencore/EVR's own upper-Fording monitoring reported roughly 6,800 adult and 17,000 juvenile westslope cutthroat trout across the drainage in 2024, a positive population trend the company frames as recovery context, not an invitation to fish closed water. McQuarrie Creek, a small child creek with its own narrow direct cutthroat signal, flows into Henretta in turn.

A provincial fish survey recorded 68 direct westslope cutthroat trout observations on Henretta Creek itself, the strongest child-creek signal of any upper-Fording tributary in this survey, well ahead of neighbouring Ewin Creek (11) and McQuarrie Creek (3). No other species turned up on the direct Henretta record, so treat it as cutthroat water rather than mixed-species habitat until further survey says otherwise. No creek-specific guide coverage exists: elk river guiding company publishes the fording river mainstem downstream, not this child creek.

No public trailhead, road or put-in has been confirmed for Henretta Creek. It likely sits off industrial forestry roads tied to Fording River coal operations, similar to its upper-valley neighbours ewin creek and mcquarrie creek, but road status and any seasonal restrictions are unconfirmed. Until both the closure boundary and physical access are confirmed, treat Henretta as a regulation-and-access check rather than a place to plan a day around.