Beaver River

The Beaver River runs north down the Beaver Valley, over Eugenia Falls and past Kimberley, and meets Georgian Bay at Thornbury. The Thornbury Dam sits just above the harbour. Steelhead and chinook gather in the short run below it, and a fish ladder at the dam lets them up the valley to spawn.

The water below the dam is small and close to town, a few hundred metres from the dam to the bay. It fishes in the fall and again in spring, and it is busy when the fish are in. From the fourth Saturday in April to December 31 you can fish it for rainbow trout, brown trout and Pacific salmon. Above the dam the river in the valley is a smaller freestone stream, and it follows the Bruce and Grey inland season, from the fourth Saturday in April to September 30. Read the Clarksburg gauge for the lower river and the Vandeleur gauge for the upper valley. A float and roe bag or a small egg fly works below the dam.

Mill Creek, a tributary below Mitchell's Falls, is closed from the fourth Saturday in April to May 31. Thornbury and the Blue Mountains resort area have plenty of places to stay, and Collingwood has full services.