Red hill valley Creek

[TerryC]

Has anyone besides me spent countless hours walking the banks of the new Red Hill seaching for a steelhead this spring. I have not found even one yet, a few chinnys in the fall but not one Trout this spring. There is some great holes and easy runs all the way to Kings forest (golf course) and I have searched every pool.

 

I am not looking for somewhere to fish, even if there were a few in there, I wouldn't bother them. The creek just looks like it has lots of potential and I was hoping someone saw atleast one in there.

 

I would hate to think they put all that work into the creek and all it would handle is suckers.

 

Just Curious

 

 

Clarence

[wolfmachine]

i've rode my bike along the trails. i've lived in that area my whole life.

 

i always wondered if i could land something, but i dunno.

[Radnine]

I have not found even one yet,

Kind of makes you wonder what all of the fuss was about, doesn't it?

Jim

[pikehunter]

You must have been the guy I saw a week or so ago fishing Red Hill between King and Greenhill. I was wondering if you were having any luck. Never tried it but have often wondered about the area as I drive it everyday.

[Spiel]

Well it may not be enough to cause opening day chaos but I did see one steelie a week before opener while out for a walk with my dog. For the record it was in a shallow pool just below Queenston, I'm sure it's long gone (due to loneliness).

[CLofchik]

I think most of the trout stocked into Hamilton goes to the Grindstone.

Neither creek has much of a chance at natural reproduction anyway.

[Mike Pike]

As kids, we used to collect the red clay along the banks of Redhill Creek to make clay projects for school and such. My favorite was making dinosaur figures. lol

 

Also use to hunt for salamanders and and garter snakes in the valley.

 

Man, that was a long time ago...

 

Anyhoo, just hearing about the one steelhead from Spiel and some salmon in the fall makes me feel like the creek has some hope. Hey, I'd even take suckers!

 

When I drive by the Redhill Expressway, I see a lot of 'fishy' looking areas that, if it was any other stream located in any other area, could hold fish. But for now, I wouldn't spend much time on the creek as a fishing destination.

[xrap]

I use to fish it for salmon before they put the highway in. It had a decent run for the creek size but ever since that I haven't seen any decent salmon runs only 2-3 dead ones. Don't expect too much from there.

[TerryC]

I'm sure it wouldn't be great for natural reproduction as there is very little in the way of stone or gravel in the creek, but there is some good deep holes. They designed the creek with spawning migratory fish in mind from what I have heard.

I was hopeful that a few may find there way up there each spring, somehow the Chinooks make it up there in the fall and I am fairly sure that they didn't originate (hatch) from the Creek.

 

 

Clarence

[moemoe]

From what I understand is that the red hill is less than ideal because it gathers to much storm sewer drainoff, making it inhopstitible to reproduction

[brifishrgy]

most of the small feeder creeks from lake O have trout runs .. the creeks are so small and short (only run a couple miles before they fork off to 4-10 feeder ditches) that the trout are long gone before opening