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

It flows into slocan river within the Slocan River watershed (Slocan River → Kootenay River). It runs stream order 6 (well down the network, toward river scale; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 40 km. bull trout, kokanee, mountain whitefish, rainbow trout, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (47 records). The fish-passage model expects brook trout, burbot, Dolly Varden, Lake Whitefish, white sturgeon here too, since the reach is reachable with no barrier between, though there is no direct record yet. Named tributaries: fitzstubbs creek, burkitt creek, keene creek, monitor creek, ranch creek.

For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the stocking record is the fishing report. Wilson Creek is a put-and-take angling fishery, stocked with catchable game fish: 8 recorded releases totalling 691,500 fish (Kokanee, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, Rainbow Trout), last stocked 1955-01-01.

Stocking appears to have wound down after 1955. 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 Slocan River, Wilson 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 Wilson 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.