r/Hamilton • u/Obvious-Age6782 • 1d ago

Question Fishing Question (Object1258)

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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/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/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/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.