Mill Creek Flaherty Park, Michigan

Walk-in access on Mill Creek — Mill creek is a designated type 1 trout stream. Open to fishing from the last saturday in april through september 30. Minimum size limits are 8 inches for brown trout and 10 inches for rainbow trout. No special gear restrictions. All rainbow trout (steelhead) are wild. Brown trout are a mixture of stocked and wild fish. Some chinook salmon and coho salmon from the paw paw river also move into mill creek in september.

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42.19023, -86.25857 · Berrien County. Directions → Tap the map to open this water in the live app.

What is here

Type: Walk-in access
Facilities: Mill creek is a designated type 1 trout stream. Open to fishing from the last saturday in april through september 30. Minimum size limits are 8 inches for brown trout and 10 inches for rainbow trout. No special gear restrictions. All rainbow trout (steelhead) are wild. Brown trout are a mixture of stocked and wild fish. Some chinook salmon and coho salmon from the paw paw river also move into mill creek in september.
Fee: No fee
Listed for: Brown Trout
Listed by: Michigan DNR Trout Trail site

Flaherty Park is owned by the City of Watervliet. From M-140 (Main Street) turn east onto Butternut Street. Take first street on the right (Church Street). The entrance to Flaherty Park is on the left (east) side of Church Street immediately south of Butternut Street. There is a paved parking lot with space for about 10 vehicles.

There are picnic tables in the park. The stream width is approximately 20 feet at this site. Mill Creek is wadeable, but anglers should be alert for deep holes and tripping hazards. The stream becomes highly turbid after rain events. There is additional access to the creek at the Carmody Road and Dan Smith Road crossings. Outside of the City parks, most of the stream flows through private land. Please stay in the stream.

On or beside Flaherty Park.

The water you can reach

Mill Creek 0.02 mi · Cold transitional stream (MDNR VSEC) · typed Cold-transitional

Walk-in access. Small enough water to wade and cross in most conditions.

What the river reads now

Gauge	Distance	Water temp
Osborn Drain at Dewey Lake St Nr Glenwood	13.4 mi	57.9 °F
Dowagiac Creek at Dutch Settlement Rd Nr Dowagiac,	19.4 mi	58.8 °F

Live from USGS. A gauge miles away is a gauge miles away — the distance column is there so you can discount it.

The river this is on

Mill Creek Live temperature, regulations, hatches and every access on the river →

Other access nearby

Mill Creek St. Joseph Street 0.2 mi · walk in
Paw Paw Lake West 1.8 mi · boat launch · Paw Paw Lake
Paw Paw Lake East 1.8 mi · boat launch · Paw Paw Lake
Rush Lake 4.2 mi · boat launch · Rush Lake

Straight-line distance, not driving distance.

Fly shops nearby

Rusty Hooks Bait & Tackle LLC 24.7 mi · Niles · +1-269-683-3474

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