Within an hour of Waterloo on the Grand, best place to go?

[jrwaterloo]

I have been stomping around the grand and conestogo rivers locally to Waterloo over the summer and am now a bit bored with the scenery even though I still am not anywhere near consistently catching bigger than panfish. Where should go this weekend and for what? The Bass seem really active close to town but small.

I am thinking that I just head down just around Glen Morris but what is really active in the Grand this time of year?

Just looking for ideas... my plan is just to pick a spot to aim for on google maps but save me the endless second guessing :wink:

 

[ttzr]

The Paris Dam on the Grand is about 30 minutes away. If nothing is happening there you can hit the Nith River near Ayr or Whitemans creek towards Brantford all on the same trip. A few options all close together in that area. You can catch bass, trout, salmon, pike, perch, and carp.

 

[salmotrutta]

If you don't mind me asking, are these landlocked salmon or lake-run from Erie?

I fish this area almost everyday and I have heard about the steelhead but I've never heard mention of salmon!

 

[jrwaterloo]

I have seen Salmon from Erie at the bottom of the Grand but not really looked up this way. There is no water cold or deep enough for the Salmon to be land locked... I don't think. I haven't seen anyone catch trout but I am hoping that just maybe with the cooler weather I will get something a little more exciting. Decided not to bother with Port Credit... I never liked chucking spoons at Salmon on the St Mary's, I wouldn't like it there.

I will try out that little triangle of short drives, safe to bring to a 4 yr old or too hard to walk in?

Thanks.

 

[L84FishN]

wait what??

you can catch salmon/trout/steelheads around brantford/ayr/cambridge area? ( are they still ediable?)

if so can anybody point me in the right dirrection?

 

[Djsms]

All the fish are edible, however I would never eat a Salmon caught in the river they are old and grey. stick to the trout under 3 lbs, and 1-2 a month is reasonable.

 

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[420Fisher]

The Paris Dam on the Grand is about 30 minutes away. If nothing is happening there you can hit the Nith River near Ayr or Whitemans creek towards Brantford all on the same trip. A few options all close together in that area. You can catch bass, trout, salmon, pike, perch, and carp.

shhhhhhhhhh whitemens is getting over populated with to many people.....

 

[420Fisher]

wait what??

you can catch salmon/trout/steelheads around brantford/ayr/cambridge area? ( are they still ediable?)

if so can anybody point me in the right dirrection?

i live in cambridge, i know of alot of places around here where trout are.
i can tell ya a few places, but not publicly here on the fourms, send me a message,
i may tell ya...

 

[FrankTheRabbit]

Drove along the 401 West and came across a few rivers and they were all flooded.

 

[420Fisher]

well, if the season was open, now would be the best time, ive seen few rivers and streams around the 519 area.... they are looking awesome...

8 more weeks!!!!!!! :mrgreen:

 

[squishy]

The paris dam is a few blocks from my house good place.

420fisher - is it true that you can't use live bait at whitemens creek ?

 

[LogJam]

The paris dam is a few blocks from my house good place.

420fisher - is it true that you can't use live bait at whitemens creek ?

it is true!
but not the whole creek... im not 100% sure, but from cleaver bridge and up, u may use live bait... i think...
that creeks was real slow this year, and now its closed... i hope the spring will be good! its a blast getting them bows by the LogJams!!!

 

[pikehunter69]

I've never fished Whiteman's creek before as I bypass it for my favorite trout waterway. I have fished the Paris dam with mixed results but some decent carp and smallies. Nith is great as with right below Bellwood lake down through Fergus.

Any small creek/stream will hold anything from carp, suckers and catfish to trout (speckled, browns, bows), panfish or pike. There's a small little pond by Black Bridge in Cambridge that has a tiny little stream flowing from it and it produces tons of speckled, it's a blink and you missed it kind of stream.

Trout open is going to be 2 different creeks and 3 different townships, 12am Sat morning till probably early Sunday morning.. My cousin and I are pumped, even the wife will be joining the second leg after lunch ( I refused to carry the tent she would've slept in while I fished lol )..

 

[aznsynaseter]

Me and my buddy been looking for some new spots you just gotta do alot of driving but theres lots of places whithin an hour to hour and half depending on speed and traffic i live in kitchener i go to the falls reserve for bass and rainbows theres lots of places on the grand in town you just gotta walk the river caught couple pike and walleye found some new lake erie tribs just looking on the map 43 more days till opener

 

[pikehunter69]

Heading upto the Bloomingdale ponds tomorrow with the wife and son, my son wants to catch a musky but I told him that he had to "settle" for pike lol

 

[pikehunter69]

So 4 hours of fishing revealed no pike but did catch chub hand over fist. Also caught about 7 or 8 perch, of which all the males were already loaded with sperm as it just leaked out in my hand taking the hooks out. must've just missed some pike as my son, the wife and I left around 5, son was hungry yet ended up passing out on the way home lol.

 

[joeboj]

Ive been to Bloomingdale before, good quiet spot, just lots of dogs lol
wondering whats the perfect time for fishing there now ? early morning or nighttime ?

 

[pikehunter69]

Ive been to Bloomingdale before, good quiet spot, just lots of dogs lol
wondering whats the perfect time for fishing there now ? early morning or nighttime ?

Anywhere I fish I always like to hit sunrise and/or sunset. But to answer your question, both really lol.. I seem to get more schooling crappie in the morning and then towards dusk I hit a ton of perch, pike I'd have to say early morning, bass (I know it's out of season but they will be caught, released of course) is sunrise and sunset ( I got a beauty smallie early morning and a beast of a largie at dusk ). Carp, chubs, catfish etc.. are all the time lol.

My profile pic is the smallie, it was caught a week before trout open last year around 7amish. My cousin and I went to "fine tune" our skills? Lol, it was the channel from the Grand leading into the one pond, drifted a Berkley power worm (brown) under a float along the far bank, as soon as it floated in the middle if the channel the float was under and under hard, at first glance I thought it was a carp because of its goldish color but was it surprised lol.

Off topic, sorry lol

 

[fishy_slayer]

Oakhill cemetary in brantford holds some of the best fishing. Just 20 min walk down stream from the dam. I have caught every single species of fish there...earlier in the year i was catching rainbow when the water was cooler. Walleye are there...pike...2lbs plus bass..catfish at night. And the rivrt is walkable. Ive never had a bad day out.