Welcome to our Bruce Peninsula Ontario Fishing Home Page
The Bruce Peninsula is a peninsula that separates the Georgian Bay from Lake Huron’s main basin. The entire peninsula and the nearby communities to the south along Lake Huron are located in Bruce County, Ontario. This area is a popular tourist destination for people who enjoy the outdoors. It is a huge area that is home to 2 national parks, campgrounds, hiking trails and excellent fishing.
Anglers have so many options with lots of protected areas on both sides of the peninsula, tons of inland lakes, some excellent offshore fishing out on the main lake basin of Lake Huron and in Georgian Bay and an excellent river for steelhead. Anglers target salmon, trout, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, northern pike, muskie, walleye, perch and more.
Lion’s Head
Located on the Bruce Peninsula, this is a small village with majestic cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment. The water is beautiful here too and many people enjoy rock climbing, hiking and sightseeing. Lion’s Head Provincial Park is here, which gives people access to an awesome area. Anglers fish for salmon and trout in this part of the bay.
Sauble Beach
Sauble Beach has several miles of beach here and plenty of people enjoy this beach every summer. If you want to fish in this area, you can fish the waters offshore this area for salmon and trout. From shore, anglers spend a lot of time on the Sauble River. Salmon and trout fishing is excellent in the river as fish move into the river to spawn in the spring and fall.
Tobermory
The village of Tobermory is located at the northernmost tip of the Bruce Peninsula. This small town is very scenic and it has enough here to make it worth visiting. It is a popular spot for diving and they do have a glass bottom boat that is available for viewing shipwrecks. There is some very good fishing offshore here for salmon and trout.
Wiarton
Located in Bruce County, Wiarton is often considered the gateway to the Bruce Peninsula. It is a small town, but a good spot to visit and you can launch your boat here to target salmon and trout in the bay.
Fish the Rivers
The tributaries of the Georgian Sound provide good fishing for salmon and trout. Some rivers and streams will also have bass, northern pike, muskie and more, but the salmon and trout trump in these tributaries.
Beatty Saugeen River
This river is a smaller tributary of the Saugeen River. It enters the South Saugeen River near the town of Hanover before entering the main Saugeen River shortly after. Anglers catch steelhead, brown trout, rainbow trout and brook trout.
Saugeen River
The Saugeen River is a huge river system and it is home to brown trout, brook trout and resident rainbow trout. It is a wide river that gives anglers lots of water to fish. Floating this river in a drift boat is common and the best way to cover some water here to catch more fish. On the lower half of the river, anglers target steelhead and salmon when they make their spawning runs. Bass and muskie are here too.