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Fourmile Creek Lake Run — Salmon, Steelhead, Brown Trout
First runners · Steelhead as of 1 October 2026
9.3 miles of run water on the Fourmile Creek, from Lake Erie up to the end of the mainstem. 1 species run it, on windows curated from PFBC guidance.
- 9.3corridor miles
- 17NHD reaches
- 1species that run
- Lake Eriethe lake they come from
The questions about this river
One page each, answered from the same records as this one.
What runs the Fourmile Creek
Each window is calendar guidance curated from the state's own run-timing prose, not a regulation and not an observation. The stage beside it is this site's reading of that window against 1 October 2026.
- Steelhead — Sept–May peak Oct–Apr First runners. The whole of this fishery. PFBC's own reference guide splits the tributary season into three: early September to early November as the fish come in on the autumn rains, mid-November to early March holding through the cold, and early March to mid-May as they drop back. Peak is late October into November on the first push and late March into April on the spring. These are rain-driven creeks with no impoundment on them — PFBC's advice is that the best chance comes when the water is rising or falling — and on all but two of them there is no gauge to tell you which it is doing.
The ceiling
No barrier inside the run. The corridor runs to the end of the mainstem, which is a claim from the National Inventory of Dams rather than a gap in the data — the NID lists no structure on this river.
No barrier inside the run. NID lists no structure on this mainstem, so the corridor runs to the end of it — a claim, not a gap.
The run water, mouth to ceiling
| Zone | What it is | River miles |
|---|---|---|
| Pier | the pierheads and the harbour mouth | 0.0–3.9 |
| Lower | the lower river | 3.9–9.3 |
River miles from the harbour mouth, walked up the NHDPlus HR mainstem. Fish arrive at the bottom of this table and work up it as the river cools and rises.
Access
No state boating access site falls inside this corridor's box. That is the record saying nothing, not this page saying there is no way in — the public land layer on the live map is the better answer for a river fished from the bank.
Open the Fourmile Creek on the live map →
Regulations
Great Lakes tributary rules are their own rules: seasons, gear and possession on run water differ from the inland trout regulations, and they differ by river and often by reach. Pennsylvania's regulation summary is here, and the state's own guide is the regulation.
Tackle
General guidance by species, not by river — there is no record of what a given river fishes best with, and a page that invented one would be worse than a page that says so.
- Steelhead Float fishing: a long 10'6"–13' rod, 8–12 lb main line, spawn bags, beads or jigs under a slip float — the method that covers a run without wading it.
Nearby run rivers
The next corridors up and down this shore, nearest first.
- Sixmile CreekLake Erie · 13.7 corridor miles →
- Sevenmile CreekLake Erie · 7.0 corridor miles →
- Eightmile CreekLake Erie · 7.0 corridor miles →
- Twelvemile CreekLake Erie · 8.5 corridor miles →
- Walnut CreekLake Erie · 21.3 corridor miles →
- Sixteenmile CreekLake Erie · 10.2 corridor miles →