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

It flows into Kaslo River within the Kootenay Lake watershed (Kootenay Lake → 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 31 km. brook trout, bull trout, rainbow trout, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (42 records). Named tributaries: Deer Creek, klawala creek, kyawats creek, montezuma creek, ben hur creek, Blacktail Creek, virgil creek, joker creek, carlyle creek, sturgis creek, sawtooth creek, desmond creek, nutla creek, nashton creek, briggs creek, glen creek.

As a small stream, a tributary of Kaslo River, Keen 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. Match the fly box to the season and confirm against a current local report.

Access for Keen 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.