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Lake Ontario is one out of five of the Great Lakes of North America, lying between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U. S. State of New York. Even though it happens to be the smallest one of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario fishing is considered to be some of the best anywhere in the world.

Being the smallest Great Lake does not mean that it is tiny. It is still the 14th largest of all the lakes around the world at 193 miles long and 53 miles wide. It has a shoreline that stretches over 700 miles. There is plenty of room for any avid fisherman to stretch out and find a suitable spot for some fantastic fishing action. This body of water is famous for holding more than just a few top salmon and trout fishing records to be found in any fishing book.

Fishing here is a year around matter with activities that can range from winter month ice angling to late summer salmon running. It is frequently claimed that it is never a fine time to fish here, while there may be certain times around the year that will bring truly enormous crowds seeking some of the most popular of the fish that lie in wait around the lake.

This constitutes the location to encounter incomparable concentrations of brown trout to be found anyplace on our planet. Anglers are particularly drawn here during the month of April when the brown trout populate the shallows. In early spring, smaller spawning bait fish assemble here and that brings plenty of those big fish which are ready and waiting to stream in to get them. You will be able to likewise find monumental schools of steel heads that will work the shallow lake waters this time of year.

Since many kinds of fish species are comparatively inactive around the winter months, they need to eat a lot when the waters begin to warm up. Even while the trout are by far the biggest attraction, an abundance of bass, panfish and walleyes will be a good enough cause for fishers to return every year. A multitude of outdoorsmen have made an annual custom out of going to Lake Ontario for spring fishing. As well as the trout, the perch, salmon and musky fill up the waters.

Commencing early in June and extending through August, people cluster here to try to put their hooks into the King Salmon. Early in the spring, these fish will weigh from a sizable 10 to 15 pounds. Nevertheless, summer and early fall sees them become behemoths that are typically above 40 pounds of pole flexing, line busting fish.

In September they begin their annual spawning runs and some fisherman, possibly exaggerating, claim you can walk across the Genesee River on their backs.