is there anyone in the Toronto area looking to go fishing or could suggest any good spots that would guarantee to catch something?

Best Places To Go Fishing in Toronto

Posted at 09:00h in Greater Toronto Area, Urban Fishing by Rob Campbell




What are the best places to go fishing in Toronto?

fishes_of_torontoPretty much everyone here at FishHunter loves to get away and go fishing. Just about all of us would go fishing with anyone, any place, anytime of the year, and especially during summer when northern Ontario water bodies beckon and our cottages on northern lakes are never far from our thoughts. But just because we happen to live in the middle of the biggest city in Canada, doesn’t mean we have put off our fishing obsession until the weekend; we can go angling right here in town, and indeed we’ve found quite a few amazing places to fish which I will document in this and upcoming blog posts. Fact is we have it pretty good up here. Myself and three million other residents are especially fortunate to have access to more than fifty public waterways, and each of these rivers or streams has somewhere on its course a piece of land that affords good access to fine fishing for a variety of different freshwater species. The city actually encourages fishing out on the Toronto Islands, at Hanlans’ Point . There were printed posters a few years back, in an ad campaign suggesting people take up the pastime out there. Perhaps the answer to the question ‘where is the best place to go fishing in Toronto?’ is the Toronto Islands. This aquatic preserve is probably the best overall venue for urban fishing in the GTA – further proof appears in a popular Toronto fishing blog called Fish on Toronto wherein the author seems to celebrate his biggest catches there. But in this blog post we’re going to remind readers that the Toronto Islands are not the only fish hunting ground in our great city.

Explore the City of Toronto to Find New Places to Go Fishing

Below are a dozen places where you can looking and perhaps locate a lovely secluded fishing hole that you can call your own secret spot. I saw an Toronto fishing discussion forum thread once asking people to share their favourite ‘secret’ fishing spots on a travel TV show which would pretty much ensure that their spots were secret no longer.

Tired of the 15 minute ferry ride to and from the Toronto Islands? Try these fishing places instead:
•Tommy Thompson Park: Foot of Leslie St. Ashbridges Bay Park:
•Coxwell Ave. S. of Lakeshore Blvd. E
•High Park Grenadier Pond: High Park Blvd. W. of Parkside Dr.
•Humber River Marsh: Mouth of Humber River upstream to Lakeshore Blvd.
•Rouge River Marsh: Lawrence Ave. E. of Port Union Rd. Bluffers Park: Foot of Brimley Rd.
•Upper Main Rouge River: Public Lands upstream of Hwy. 2
•Lower Humber River: Etienne Brule Park S. to Eglinton Ave.
•Eglinton Flats: Jane at Eglinton Ave.
•G. Ross Lord Park: Dufferin St. N. of Finch Ave.
•Humber Bay Park: Park Lawn Rd. S. of Lakeshore Blvd. W.
•Colonel Samuel Smith Park: Kipling Ave. S. of Lakeshore Blvd. W.
•Marie Curtis Park: Lakeshore Rd. E. of Dixie Rd.
•Centennial Park: Centennial Park Blvd. S. of Eglinton Ave.
•Summerlea Park: Albion Rd. E. of Islington Ave