Posted on November 14th, 2019
Hi Calvin, Glad you enjoy fishing with your wife. The Port Rowan are has some good fishing, but like many areas it’s seasonal, especially from shore. Best time to catch panfish from shore there like perch, crappie, rock bass and bluegill is early in the spring right after the ice goes out and even into May when the water is still cold. Shore access is usually a problem and you will be limited to fishing public areas like the pier or nearby shorelines. Most of the walleye are caught through the summer months trolling from a boat but there are times early and late in the year when walleye will cruise the shorelines at dusk and after dark. That is a good time to cast lures like a medium-diving crankbait or a Rapala Husky Jerk or Jointed Rapala #7. Bass fishing can also be good in the summer time and fishing a live-bait rig like a “pickerel-rig” with either worms, minnows or leeches should work well. You can also have some good ice fishing there for panfish and pike once the ice is safe. Most people will use either live minnows for bait or small jigs and plastic or real grubs…God bless you.
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Posted on May 27th, 2019
Hi Arsian, you have many options. Right now there are still “drop-back” steelhead in the GTA tributaries that are heading back to Lake Ontario. You have to do some walking to locate them as they will be scattered and holding in larger pools in the Rouge River, Bronte Creek, Credit River, etc. You can catch them by drifting small worms, roe bags, single imitation eggs and even on lures like smaller Vibrax spinners and Luhr Jensen KwikFish. If you don’t mind driving to the Niagara Falls area you can have good fishing at Fort Erie, ON boat launch and at the Queenston, ON boat launch for walleye, some steeelhead and white bass.
If you fish the marshes at the mouth of all those tributaries you can cast Rapala’s and Spinner or fish live bait to catch pike, white bass and coarse fish like catfish, suckers and carp.
There are several good reservoirs to fish once the bass season opens in the Grand River and Hamilton Conservation Authortities. These include; Mountsberg, Valen’s and Guelph Lake. If you Google the above you will see where they are and the fishing they provide….God bless you.
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Posted on May 24th, 2019
Hi Arslan, would really help to know where you are situated in Canada so I could give you some local shore-fishing locations…God bless you.
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Posted on August 11th, 2018
I am well, thank you. The Kingston, ON area has quite a bit of shoreline where you can fish from shore for bass and pike. If you want to try right in Kingston, you can fish the La Salle Causeway. If you walk out on the piles on the St. Lawrence River side you can fish jigs with plastic tubes and twister-tails right along the piles for smallmouth bass. If you fish on the north-side of the causeway you can walk and cast surface lures Vibrax #3 spinners or spinnerbaits for largemouth bass & pike. If you drive further west on the Loyalist Parkway between Bath, ON and the Glenora Ferry landing there is lot’s of rocky shoreline and weeds where you can hook all three species and more.
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Posted on February 22nd, 2017
Hi Dan, there are many places you can fish from shore on the Welland River, Welland, ON. The main one is Merritt Island right down town. The other is EC Brown conservation area south of Welland, ON, near the Welland Airport. You can also fish around any of the street bridges in and around Welland, ON.
The two launches I know of are on River Road right in Welland, just north of Almond St., and the boat launch at EC Brown Conservation area. Hope you have some fun and catch fish. The channel catfish will be running soon there.
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Posted on August 18th, 2016
Hi Habibur, I would encourage you to drive down to Welland, ON (1 1/2 hr from GTA), where you can fish the Welland Recreational Canal right in town. It is about 11 km long, 300 yds. wide, 30′ deep in the middle with weedlines growing down each shoreline.
It has good shoreline access with cut grass and walking paths including barbacue stands and picnic tables. You can catch panfish like bludgill, pumkinseed, rock bass and perch on just a worm, hook & float, or if you want to catch largemouth & smallmouth bass, and pike, just cast small Rapalas or #2 Vibrax spinners along the weeds. There are many places to access the canal, one if off Thorold Rd. & the other Lincoln St. in Welland, ON.
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Posted on January 19th, 2016
You have several options to catch fish from shore. All you need is a medium-action spinning rod loaded with 30 lb. braid. I suggest you don’t take any freshwater tackle since it’s better (and pretty inexpensive) to purchase saltwater hooks and lures at Wal-Mart for you to use while you are there and to bring back with you.
You can have good bait-fishing right off any beach. The best fishing will be if the Gulf has been calm for at least 3-days and the water clears up. You don’t have to cast out far, 15-50′ from the beach and just bottom fish using a pyramid 1 oz. sinker on a 3-way rig, a 24″ leader and a #2 baithook. Good bait is frozen shrimp, pieces of squid, sand flies (small crustaceans that you can catch with a sieve whee the surf meets the beach), or if you have a cast net, baitfish. Fishing bait you should be able to catch; whiting, silver jennies, sheepshead and possibly even Spanish jackerel and snook. If you choose to cast lures, casting a 3″ gold spoon you are very likely to hook Spanish mackerel and bluefish if they are running the beach.
You can also fish any outlets that connect the inter-coastal with the Gulf. Those areas are the most productive when the tide is moving, either flooding or ebbing. Same bait & spoon casting will work there also.
You can fish the inter-coastal waterway off any dock, or if you don’t mind, even wade up to your waist on firmer bottom flats and cast a 1/4 oz. jig/3″ plastic minnow grub, 1/4 oz. spoon, Rapala X-Rap, or Rapala Skitter Pop along the surface for spotted sea trout, snook, jacks, ladyfish, & snook. Hope you have a great holiday!
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Posted on September 10th, 2015
Best location I can suggest is in Welland, ON where you can fish right down town at Merrit Island in either the Welland River, or the Welland Recreational Canal. The Welland River is good for bottom fishing with bait like corn or worms for carp & catfish. You can also cast Vibrax #3 spinners for pike from shore. The Welland Recreational canal is better fished with a bobber and worm for panfish and bass. At Merritt Island park there is a playground, washrooms and the canal and river are only 200 yds. apart. There is easy access on both bodies of water and long stretches to fish.
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Posted on July 6th, 2015
You can catch pike and bass right in Collingwood Bay, ON. Good lures to use are 1/4 & 3/8 oz. spinnerbaits, twitching the Rapala Husky Jerk or the new Shadow Rap, and also fishing Texas-rigged soft-plastic swimbaits & tubes.
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Posted on July 4th, 2015
Both early morning and evening when both species are actively swimming along shorelines and looking for food.
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