River · Alberta, Canada
The Crowsnest
Freestone through the pass. Technical dry fly water, heavy pressure below the highway, and the gorge fishes best when everything else is blown.
Current conditions
When to go
Water guide
What swims here
- Brown trout
- Mountain whitefish
- Rainbow trout
- Westslope cutthroat trout
Westslope cutthroat trout. Threatened in Alberta. Genetically pure populations survive in only a handful of headwater streams, so check the current closures before you go.
Before you go
Whirling disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency declared the Oldman River watershed infected on 1 May 2017.
- Clean, drain and dry your watercraft and any equipment that has been in contact with water, completely, between trips.
- Never move live or dead fish or fish parts from one waterbody to another. This is illegal in Alberta, and so is using live fish as bait.
The province on whirling disease, opens in a new tab · Clean, drain, dry, opens in a new tab · The CFIA's declarations, opens in a new tab
Regulations
Nobody has written the plain-English summary for this water yet.
The official regulations, opens in a new tab
Regulations change. Check the official source before you go.