Confirm the current BC freshwater fishing regulations (Region 4 – Kootenay) before you fish; this water is part of the St. Mary River system.

It flows into st mary river within the St. Mary River watershed (St. Mary River → Kootenay River). It runs stream order 5 (well down the network, toward river scale; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 35 km. brook trout, bull trout, Cutthroat Trout, largemouth bass, mountain whitefish, rainbow trout, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (256 records). Named tributaries: jim smith creek, hospital creek.

For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the stocking record is the fishing report. Joseph Creek is a put-and-take angling fishery, stocked with catchable game fish: 18 recorded releases totalling 262,710 fish (Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, Rainbow Trout, Cutthroat Trout), last stocked 1998-10-19.

Stocking appears to have wound down after 1998. Confirm whether it is still topped up or now fishes as a residual, wild population. The chart below shows the full release history.

As a small stream, a tributary of St. Mary River, Joseph Creek fishes the way creeks of its size do: short drifts with a buoyant attractor dry over a light dropper, working the pocket water and the heads of pools. The stocking record below is the truest read on what you will catch.

Access for Joseph Creek, meaning the roads in, put-ins and any walk-in or seasonal limits, is worth confirming locally before you commit a day. The drainage map shows how the water sits in its valley.