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Plumbob Creek

River

9.24 km

Mapped channels

Plumbob Creek is short, but it has a strong enough conservation story to earn a full profile. A perched culvert on Teepee FSR was replaced with a clear-span bridge, opening upstream habitat for westslope cutthroat, eastern brook trout and bull trout. The similarly named Tepee Creek is a separate Gold Creek tributary, but both belong in the same fish-passage access conversation.

No live gauge

No gauge readings are available for this water.

Season

Driving directions

Field note

Plumbob is valuable because habitat work made it better. Fish it lightly, avoid bank damage, and treat the Teepee FSR crossing as a fish-passage story first.

At a glance

Fact

Details

Type

Koocanusa/Kootenay feeder

Length

~10 km mapped

Signal

41 fish records

Health note

7 km habitat opened

Best for

Small-water scouting

Species

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Westslope Cutthroat

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Bull Trout

Region 4 Regulations — guide reviewed 2026-07-02

No creek-specific rule was found in this extraction. Apply Region 4 stream defaults unless the official synopsis or in-season notices say otherwise.

The water itself

The local model maps about 10 km of Plumbob Creek with 41 fish records. The water sits in the Koocanusa/Kootenay corridor, where small creek habitat, road crossings and access ethics are inseparable.

The fish

Brook trout and westslope cutthroat dominate the record set. Bull trout, rainbow and dolly varden also appear, so fish it with native-char caution even when the visible action is small trout.

Fact

Details

Bridge Fix

Perched culvert replaced

7 km

Upstream habitat opened

Small Water

Dries, nymphs, small streamers

Fragile Gain

Protect banks and redds

How it is fished

Carry Adams, Elk Hair Caddis, beetles, ants, Hare's Ears, Pheasant Tails, small buggers and sparse sculpin streamers. Keep casts short and your feet out of fragile margins whenever possible.

Restored water is not disposable water

The habitat gain came from removing a fish-passage barrier. Avoid trampling banks, avoid redds, and do not turn a small restored creek into a numbers game.

Guides and access

No dedicated Plumbob Creek guide page was found. Confirm Teepee FSR status, legal parking and current crossing condition before visiting.

Sources & further reading: BC Freshwater Fishing Regulations, Region 4 (2025-2027); BC Fish Passage Program 2008-2017; 2011 Fish Passage Culvert Assessments; local FWA/FISS beat model.