Nothing live is published for this water, so there is no reading or verdict today. The readings section below says what we checked.
Eightmile Creek is a freestone river in Pennsylvania, listed as Steelhead / salmon water by Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
3 shops nearby are listed here; the nearest destination hub is Erie & Steelhead Alley.
Eightmile Creek is a freestone river in Pennsylvania. Our destination hub Erie & Steelhead Alley is 9 mi away in a straight line.
No real-time gauge on this water. We found no active USGS gauge on Eightmile Creek or on its stream system within about 25 miles, and no dam operator publishes data for it. A missing gauge says nothing about the water itself. Find the gauges nearest Eightmile Creek
Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.
Nothing on this page grants or implies access.
Shops and guides within 40 miles
Map of Eightmile Creek: gauges, shops and guides
Map of Eightmile Creek, and shops and guides with an exact address within 40 miles.
Restrooms within 2 miles of Eightmile Creek in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.
Map of the restroom near Eightmile Creek
Skip the map; every place is in the list belowMap of 1 restroom near Eightmile Creek, numbered as in the list, with the water’s point marked.
Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.
Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map
Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Sevenmile CreekThe Allegheny River in Venango County, Pennsylvania. Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Sevenmile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 2 mi
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Sixmile CreekTyrone, Pennsylvania, from the air: Bald Eagle Creek meets the Little Juniata River in the town (the creek is not visible at this distance). Photo: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Sixmile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 3 mi
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Twelvemile CreekSpring Creek in Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Twelvemile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 3 mi
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Fourmile CreekThe Little Juniata River at the 1898 Birmingham Bridge, near Birmingham, Pennsylvania (black-and-white survey photograph). Photo: Jet Lowe, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Fourmile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 5 mi
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Sixteenmile CreekFishing Creek from PA Route 150, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. Photo: Ruhrfisch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Sixteenmile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 5 mi
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Twentymile CreekSunrise on Penns Creek, Union County, Pennsylvania. Photo: WiiWillieWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Twentymile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 9 mi
Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.
Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under salmon & steelhead.
On the Lake Erie Tributaries (PFBC Steelhead page) list (Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, read 2026-10-24). All waters with this designation
Measured from the NHDPlus High Resolution (flowlines and waterbodies) (U.S. Geological Survey, read 2026-11-04) for this water’s own mapped feature. Rounded figures; they describe the channel, not today’s conditions.
Areas the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), public access (U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project, read 2026-11-04) lists as owned or held in easement and open to the public, crossed by the mapped channel. Boundaries are mapped, not surveyed. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.
1.4 of 6.7 mi on public land
Nothing on this page grants or implies access.
Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.
No guide within 40 miles yet.
The hatch and season chart for this water's region.
8 hatches charted for the region, not measured on this water. From Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission.
Blue Quill (April) · Hendrickson (April) · Quill Gordon (April) · Green drake (May) · Mayflies (best hatches) (May) · Mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies (June to September) · and 2 more on the chart
Erie is the Lake Erie port city in north-west Pennsylvania; Walnut, Elk, Twentymile and the county's other short tributaries reach the lake along its shore, Conneaut Creek runs on into Ohio, and the Presque Isle peninsula shelters Presque Isle Bay.
Destination hub · 9 mi away in a straight line
A steelhead and salmon fly-fishing checklist: a switch or spey rod (or 9′6″ single-hand) in 7–8 weight, Skagit lines and sink tips, swing flies, studded boots and cold-weather layers, with estimated prices and where to buy.
11′–13′6″ two-hand rod, 7–8 weight, Skagit head + sink tips · Steelhead and Pacific salmon
Open the checklistSeams, shelves and soft water, shown on real rivers.
Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.
Not sponsored All videos on reading water
Indicator rigs, depth and detecting the take.
Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.
Not sponsored All videos on nymphing
Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Eightmile Creek.
No stories from here yet.
Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.
A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.
Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: a point on the mapped channel of “Eightmile Creek”, halfway along its length in Pennsylvania, from the USGS high-resolution hydrography (NHDPlus HR), read 4 Nov 2026. It marks the water, not a particular access or reach. Water type is our own classification.
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Sevenmile CreekThe Allegheny River in Venango County, Pennsylvania. Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Sevenmile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 2 mi
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Sixmile CreekTyrone, Pennsylvania, from the air: Bald Eagle Creek meets the Little Juniata River in the town (the creek is not visible at this distance). Photo: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Sixmile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 3 mi
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Twelvemile CreekSpring Creek in Talleyrand Park, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Twelvemile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 3 mi
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Fourmile CreekThe Little Juniata River at the 1898 Birmingham Bridge, near Birmingham, Pennsylvania (black-and-white survey photograph). Photo: Jet Lowe, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Fourmile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 5 mi
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Sixteenmile CreekFishing Creek from PA Route 150, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. Photo: Ruhrfisch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Sixteenmile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 5 mi
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Twentymile CreekSunrise on Penns Creek, Union County, Pennsylvania. Photo: WiiWillieWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Twentymile Creek.
Pennsylvania · about 9 mi
North East, Pennsylvania
River cabins · 7.5 mi
