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

It flows into kootenay 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 10 km. brook trout, kokanee, rainbow trout, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (360 records). The fish-passage model expects bull trout here too, since the reach is reachable with no barrier between, though there is no direct record yet. Named tributaries: mause creek.

For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the stocking record is the fishing report. Norbury Creek is a put-and-take angling fishery, stocked with catchable game fish: 35 recorded releases totalling 1,053,820 fish (Kokanee, Rainbow Trout, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, Brook Trout), last stocked 2021-11-08.

Stocking appears to have wound down after 2021. 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 Kootenay River, Norbury 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 Norbury 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.