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I'm a newcomer to the Ottawa area and keep noticing Green's Creek as I drive along the 174 or Innes Rd. Every time I pass it I get the urge to break out the fly rod and give it a try.

Is there any point in stopping (besides getting some fresh air and having an opportunity to improve on my rather weak technique)?

I know that NY has a lot of good streams, but I'm looking for someplace close by where I can spend an hour or two after work.

Thanks

I highly doubt that you would catch something on the fly in green's creek.

I was down there today with my bike and the creek is flooded BIG TIME. It kinda looks like those southern alabama swamps. It looks like it could hold some nice catfish but thats the only fish i see living there, exept where the creek meets the ottawa, i've cought some nice smallies and i think they where carp (but they where silverish, maybe a drum?) there.

Anybody know if theirs good catfish in the creek? I might give it a try.

Pickerel spawn in Green's creek, but move back to Ottawa river after spawning. In summer the creek holds only various minnows. I think some bait shops trap them there commercially.

Sigh.

The creek does look rather muddy in the area of the 174. I drove by the Innes Rd crossing the other day and at a quick glance from the car as I sped by, it looked promising.

Guess I'll have to look elsewhere and settle for other species until I can get away to NY.

Thanks for the thoughts.

mosquito wrote: I think some bait shops trap them there commercially.

they stock a creek in the leitrim area with 250 or 500 hundred browns each year. you might want to give it a try. i've never heard anybody catching any but it might be worth trying. watch out those little trout are kinda spooky! so be quiet when walking the shore line.

i have caught at the mouth alot of sauger. just near the benches along the bike path.

but yeah you'll mostly find catfish in there. my mother was telling me that when she was younger her family would go there and get a snack of catfish. but this was more then 45 yrs ago. when things were a little cleaner around here.

maybe worth giving it a try. with a small weighted leech patern. something that looks like a small worm, and that you can put on the bottom.

catfish on the fly???

Catfish can be taken on the fly, though my experience in catching them has been as bycatch while bass fishing on the Ottawa.

Cheers,
Todd

I grew up in that area...when I was like 3 I caught an eel. Scared the hell out of me!

Doesn't help you much but thanks for reminding me of that moment

Katch Moore wrote: i have caught at the mouth alot of sauger. just near the benches along the bike path.

I heard that you could catch walleye there so that was the reason i went, i've went about 3-4 times and tried jigging for em but never cought anything and only managed to loose jigs.
What where you using to bring up the sauger, can't be much different then walleye.?

i've never fished there before, so i just tossed out the old worm and bobber, and bang sauger. so i tried small brown tubes, try banging them off the bottom. anyways hopes this helps. oh yeah try to cast to the other side of the opening. you'll notice weed growth on that side.

good luck

Guys,

Sorry for the delay in responding - I've been out of town all week with no internet access.

On the plus side, I made my first visit to the Bass Pro Shop in Vaughn. What a store! A fellow could easily blow a paycheck or two in there. Good thing my wife wasn't with me

Thanks for the info on Green's Creek. Maybe I'll give it a try - just for something to do.

Cheers

It was interesting to see this thread because I think the same thing everytime I drive by Green's Creek. It looks a lot like a muddier version of the creeks that flow into Lake Ontario in the Oshawa/Durham area along the 401 (Bowmanville Creek, Wilmot Creek, Oshawa Creek etc)

As far as good urban flyfishing areas go I too am new to fly fishing and have been scouring the area and local websites to find some good spots. So far I have heard good things about the Bronson Bridge area of Carleton, the Champlain Bridge area along Island Park and to a lesser extent the Manotick/Jock River area.

As far as traditional river fishing goes there really isn't much in the Ottawa area that isn't a 2 hour trek away. You have mentioned the upstate NY area and I am looking forward to trying that out myself but I am even more excited to try out the Tremblant area. Living in Orleans I am only 75 minutes away from the Diable river and I think that river offers a lot for the traditional fly fishing experience. When I finally make it up there I will add to that thread about my time there.

You don't have to drive 2 or 3 hours for creek/stream fishing. Several of my friends who live in west Quebec have told me that there are small streams that hold brookies and browns.

The Backroads Maps series of books has a couple of volumes on west Quebec. It looks like there are lots of streams with potential as they flow in or out of trout lakes. Much of the water is within an hour's drive of downtown Ottawa.

If you're talking traditional river flyfishing for trout then yes you'll have to get out of the city. Though as Fishboy states you don't necessarily have to go as far as you think.

If your'e just talking tradition river flyfishing in general, there are lots of opportunities within the NCR.

I agree there are plenty of opportunities within 2 hours of ottawa. I can think of more than 20 places with trout within 1 hour of downtown ottawa, easily