Venison Creek (Ontario)

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Venison Creek

Venison Creek is the largest tributary to Big Creek, in the Long Point Region Conservation Area, on the north shore of Lake Erie, in Ontario, Canada. [1] [2]

Big Creek is a watercourse in Norfolk County, Ontario. It is approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) long. It empties into Lake Erie, at Port Rowan, at Long Point. Its watershed covers 730 square kilometres (280 sq mi), alternately 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi).

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Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. At its deepest point Lake Erie is 210 feet deep.

The watershed was originally heavily wooded, until settlers of European descent cleared the land for farming. [1]

Fish generally found in Venison Creek are northern pike, rainbow trout, brook trout, panfish, carp, smallmouth bass and brown trout. Catching a fish in this creek is generally the best between 6 AM and 12 PM and becoming sub-optimal between 6 PM and 6 AM. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Executive Summary: Long Point Conservation Area" (PDF). Long Point Conservation Area . January 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2018-12-12. Big Creek is the largest watershed in the Long Point Region with a total area of 750 square kilometres. The creek flows south through Delhi, where North Creek joins it. Venison Creek joins downstream of Walsingham before Big Creek enters Lake Erie near Port Rowan.
  2. ↑ Lawrence Hermon Tasker (1900). "The United Empire Loyalist Settlement at Long Point, Lake Erie Chapter XIII. The Townships of Norfolk". Ontario Historical Society . Archived from the original on 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2018-12-12. The largest stream is Big Creek, which takes its rise in Windham Township. After being joined by its most important tributary, Venison Creek, it becomes a large stream, and is in places very deep where the current is held in by high banks. Occasionally it flows through deep gulches and ravines. In Galinee’s journal it is mentioned that his party were delayed more than a day in attempting to cross this stream. It was also at the mouth of this creek that the McCall party landed in 179G. The township was surveyed by Sergeant Daniel Hazen in 1797. The chief villages are Port Rowan, St. Williams, Walsingham Centre, Port Royal and Langton.
  3. ↑ Venison Creek Fishing Archived 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine at Hook and Bullet

Coordinates: 42°39′09″N80°32′38″W / 42.65261°N 80.54376°W / 42.65261; -80.54376

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