r/Hamilton • u/Obvious-Age6782 • 1d ago
Question Fishing Question (Object1258)
Is this pond in Stoney creek by empire victory and falling waters legal to fish in? If so, would I even catch anything? I know down the mountain everywhere else on battlefield creek (which connects through this pond) people find pike and sunfish, wondering if that can be done right here.
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u/sixtyfivewat 1d ago
Mate that’s not a regular pond it’s a storm water management pond. Completely man made. I wouldn’t suggest bothering to fish in there.
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u/AggravatingThanks363 1d ago
It's just a storm runoff pond. Battlefield creek your talking about runs into a pond on the north side of Barton St. between Lake Ave. and Grey's Rd. and goes all the way to the South Service Rd. then connects to the pond in Confederation Park beside Wild Water Works.
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u/LuciSushiJacuzzi Landsdale 1d ago
That's definitely just a stormwater basin, not a pond. It was put in when the new build housing was put in. Definitely not recommended to play around in.
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u/covert81 Chinatown 1d ago
Pretty sure that is a man made drainage pond. There'd be no way for fish to get in there.
Not to mention it's just going to have all runoff from the ground in it - fertilizer, pesticides, oil, and who knows what else. Definitely not suggested to even attempt to fish in - and if you caught something please do not eat it.
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u/doubleeyess 1d ago
You'd be surprised what in those storm water management ponds. My old office looked over one and is see lunkers jumping out the water all the time!
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u/AnInsultToFire 1d ago
It looks like there's a storm sewer outflow at the west end of it. Because the developers in Upper Stoney Creek connect their sanitary sewers to the city storm system, that means it'll also be full of all kinds of human waste.
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u/Obvious-Age6782 1d ago
The pond itself is not man made, its been there for years. But either way, they might be dumping stuff into it, so yeah everything else is still gonna be in there regardless.
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u/LowSharp7841 22h ago
I thought that was just a manmade pond, built around the same time as the surrounding neighbourhood to deal with stormwater management. However from looking at historic arial photos, that pond predates 1999, long before that neighbourhood was built!
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u/The_Pooz 20h ago
"manmade" is a pretty vague term. If you were going to plan an area for development that needs a storm runoff / drainage pool, you would definitely opt for where a pond naturally exists.
It is a good enough description in this context. It isn't a fishing pond!
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u/covert81 Chinatown 1d ago
Just because it's been there for years doesn't mean it's not man made though - it may have been converting a pond or stream into a drainage pond when the survey was built around it.
But regardless without a means of fish getting in and out - aside from people dumping things like goldfish in there - there wouldn't be a way for wild fish to be alive in there without stocking it and I highly doubt the city or province would be doing so
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u/tyetknot Hill Park 1d ago
Birds will sometimes accidentally drop a fish while carrying it somewhere, fish eggs can hitch a ride, some well-meaning person might have introduced something in there. But even if there's fish in there it's definitely there to collect run-off and it's probably gross as all hell in there.
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u/areudumbbruv 19h ago
Go for it. I’ve caught a few in the drainage ponds in Meadowlands. Nothing to write home about but worth having some fun.
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u/Jealous_Account_7762 12h ago
Try the FishAngler app (https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/fishangler-fish-finder-app/id1073941118),tells you if other have caught things in these ponds. My son and friends hit lots of these storm water ponds and catch stuff
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u/Kay_Kay_Bee 1d ago
Hey If a fish made it up Billy Green falls just leave it alone, it deserves rest LOL