Freshwater Fishing.
The Grand River through the County of Brant sits in Ontario's Fisheries Management Zone 16, with smallmouth bass and pike as the primary recreational warmwater species. Whiteman's Creek (a Grand tributary running past Apps' Mill Nature Centre) and Pinehurst Lake near St.
George add small-water fishing options inside the County. The Brant reach is warmwater, not the brown-trout tailwater the Grand is known for.
The brief.
The County of Brant's Grand River reach is FMZ 16 and a recreational warmwater fishery — smallmouth bass and pike anchor the catch list, with panfish through the season. Whiteman's Creek runs past Apps' Mill Nature Centre and adds a smaller coldwater-tributary option; Pinehurst Lake is a stocked warmwater pond fishery managed by GRCA.
The brown trout fly-fishing tailwater that the Grand River is widely known for sits upstream of Brant in the Shand Dam to West Montrose reach (Centre Wellington / Grand River region) — that's a different water and a different fishery. An Ontario sport-fishing licence is required, with species, season, and limit rules in the FMZ 16 regulations.
Best season for warmwater Grand fishing is late spring through October.
3. places.
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Grand River — County of Brant reach (FMZ 16)
Warmwater bass-and-pike fishery on the Brant reach of the Canadian Heritage River.
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Whiteman's Creek (Apps' Mill area)
Coldwater tributary of the Grand running past Apps' Mill Nature Centre.
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Pinehurst Lake
Stocked warmwater pond fishery on the 250-acre kettle lake near St. George.
Today's read.
Cold but firm — winter-ready conditions · light winds · clean air.