Peavine Creek

Stillwater
5
Species listed
5.1 m
Median channel width
0.95%
Median gradient
0.45 m³/s
Mean annual flow estimate
Peavine Creek flows into the Moyie River in the East Kootenay. Provincial records show 46 stocking releases between 1929 and 1994: westslope cutthroat, rainbow trout, kokanee and brook trout among them. Almost all of it was eyed eggs and fry rather than catchable fish, work that reads as spawning-channel and recovery stocking rather than an ongoing put-and-take program, and nothing has been recorded stocked here in over thirty years.
No live gauge
No gauge readings are available for this water.
Season
Driving directions

Region 4 Regulations — guide reviewed 2026-07-08

No Peavine Creek-specific bucket appears in the current regulations table, so the Region 4 defaults apply: no fishing in any Region 4 stream Apr 1-Jun 14, trout and char catch-and-release Nov 1-Mar 31, single barbless hook year-round, and a daily limit of 5 trout/char with only 1 bull trout of any size. The Moyie River downstream runs bull trout and cutthroat as catch-and-release; treat this creek the same way until the official synopsis says otherwise. Confirm the current synopsis before you fish.

The water

The creek runs stream order 4 (mid-range in the network, on a scale that runs from 1 for a headwater trickle up to 6 or more for a full river) and stretches roughly 19 km before it reaches the Moyie River. Provincial fish-inventory data carries 87 records here, covering westslope cutthroat, bull trout, rainbow, kokanee, a plain cutthroat variant, dolly varden and several other species, a solid signal for a creek this size. Prudhomme Creek joins it as a named tributary.

The fishing

No fly report, guide coverage or access note has surfaced for Peavine Creek, so the stocking record below is the closest thing to a fishing report it has. Bull trout and westslope cutthroat are the two species most consistently picked up in provincial surveys; treat any kokanee or rainbow you find as descendants of the historical program and the resident wild population rather than an actively topped-up fishery. As a small stream this size, expect the general East Kootenay tributary read, short drifts with a buoyant attractor dry over a light dropper through pocket water and the heads of pools, though nothing here has been confirmed on the water.

The stocking record is the fishing report

Forty-six releases between 1929 and 1994 totalled 1,737,110 fish, almost all eyed eggs and fry: 20 releases of westslope cutthroat (several raised from nearby Kiakho Creek and Palmer Bar Creek broodstock, both Moyie River tributaries), 15 of rainbow trout, and a handful of kokanee and brook trout plants. The last release, 50,000 kokanee fry on April 11, 1994, drew on the Hill Creek kokanee program. That pattern, eggs and fry rather than catchable fish, reads as spawning-channel and recovery work, not a put-grow angling fishery, and nothing has been recorded stocked here since.

Stocking

For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the release history above is the record to trust. Peavine Creek shows no put-and-take program: 46 recorded releases across six decades of eyed-egg, fry and fingerling plants, last stocked April 11, 1994.
Read the chart as history rather than a forecast. Whatever westslope cutthroat, rainbow and kokanee turn up today are descendants of that stocking program and the resident wild population, not fish topped up this season.

Access and the rules

No boat launch, trailhead or parking area has been confirmed for Peavine Creek, and access still needs checking on the ground before a trip. The creek drains East Kootenay ranch and forest country north of the Moyie River near Yahk; check current Forest Service Road status for the area before you commit a day.

Before you fish

No Peavine Creek-specific bucket appears in the current regulations table, so the Region 4 defaults apply: no fishing in any Region 4 stream Apr 1-Jun 14, trout and char catch-and-release Nov 1-Mar 31, single barbless hook year-round, and a daily limit of 5 trout/char with only 1 bull trout of any size. The Moyie River downstream runs bull trout and cutthroat as catch-and-release; fish this creek the same way until the official synopsis says otherwise. Confirm the current Region 4 synopsis before you go.

Conditions

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Navigability: narrow, wade-only water (median channel width ~5.1 m, narrow to moderate; median gradient ~0.95%, very gentle; peak mean-annual discharge ~0.445 m³/s, very low flow). A gentle, low-volume creek this size fishes on foot, not from a boat.
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Stocking: conservation and recovery program only, 46 releases from 1929 to 1994, none recorded since.
Page reviewed 2026-07-08