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Limerick Creek

River

2.56 km

Mapped channels

Limerick Creek is a small tributary of Perry Creek in the St. Mary River drainage of BC's East Kootenay. Provincial fish-inventory data holds exactly one direct record here, logged only as an unidentified fish, so there is no confirmed sportfish population, just a name on the map and a set of regulations to respect if you're passing through the Perry Creek system.

No live gauge

No gauge readings are available for this water.

Season

Driving directions

At a glance

Fact

Details

Type

Small Perry Creek tributary

Drainage

Into Perry Creek, then the St. Mary River

Fish records

1 unidentified fish, no confirmed sportfish

Regulations

Perry Creek Classified Water (Region 4-20)

Water

Small, likely wade-only headwater

Region 4 Regulations — guide reviewed 2026-07-08

Limerick Creek is a tributary of Perry Creek, and its Classified Water designation (Region 4-20) covers tributaries too: bait ban, cutthroat trout and bull trout catch-and-release, a brook trout daily quota of 20, and Class II status when and where open. Non-resident anglers need the St. Mary River classified licence. Confirm the current synopsis before you fish.

Monitoring and seasonal context

St. Mary River below Morris Creek

upper St. Mary trend only; Limerick Creek itself is ungauged with no realtime record

Water Survey of Canada station 08NG077

Weather reference: Cranbrook (49.512, -115.769).

The water

Natural Resources Canada lists Limerick Creek as an official Kootenay Land District creek, key JADMD, at 49.450833, -116.116389. It joins Perry Creek, which in turn flows down to the St. Mary River near Cranbrook. No stream-order, channel-width or discharge survey has reached this creek in the data checked, so there is no channel geometry to report here, only the drainage relationship and a single presence record for fish in general.

The fishing

With a single unidentified fish record and no verified guide coverage, Limerick Creek is not a confirmed destination fishery. Don't assume trout: the one record on file could not be identified to species, and it is the only evidence of fish life logged for this creek. If a westslope cutthroat trout, bull trout or brook trout does turn up, fish it like the rest of the small Perry Creek tributaries: short drifts with an Adams or Elk Hair Caddis on top and a Hare's Ear or Pheasant Tail underneath, with quick, gentle release handling given the catch-and-release rule on native trout and char.

Fact

Details

Perry Creek tributary

Flows into Perry Creek, then the St. Mary River

1 unidentified fish

The only direct record in provincial data

Classified Water rules

Perry Creek CW covers tributaries

Small headwater water

Likely wade-only, fishery unconfirmed

One record, unknown species

Provincial fish-inventory data holds exactly one direct record for Limerick Creek, logged only as an unidentified fish. That is not enough to call this a trout water. Treat any catch here as noteworthy, and if you can identify it, that's more than the record currently shows.

Access and the rules

No public access point, trailhead or put-in has been confirmed for Limerick Creek. It sits within the Perry Creek drainage off the St. Mary River road system near Cranbrook, but a specific approach to the creek itself has not been verified.

Before you fish

Limerick Creek falls under the Perry Creek Classified Water rules (Region 4-20), which cover tributaries: bait ban, cutthroat trout and bull trout catch-and-release, brook trout daily quota 20, and Class II status when and where open. Non-resident anglers need the St. Mary River classified licence. Confirm the current Region 4 synopsis before fishing the drainage.