Last Updated: December 19, 2025
  • Non-Canadian residents camping on Crown land must follow Conservation Fishing Licence limits.
  • Rainbow Smelt may not be used as bait or possessed for use as bait.
  • The following waterbodies, or portions of them, have different regulations that are listed in the waterbody exceptions:
    • New Arrow River
    • Jessie Lake
    • New Lac des Mille Lacs including Casino, Cushing, Panache, and Pike Lakes and their connected waters
    • Lake Helen
    • Lake Nipigon
    • New Little Savanne River
    • McIntyre River
    • Nipigon River
    • Polly Lake
    • Savanne River
  • FMZ 6, with the exception of St. Ignace Island and Simpson Island, is part of the Northwest Bait Management Zone (BMZ). Live or dead baitfish or leeches may not be transported into or out of a BMZ. These rules do not apply to baitfish and leeches which are both dead and preserved

Zone-wide Seasons and Limits

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  • Open in Limited Locations
  • Open Season
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Atlantic Salmon

Atlantic Salmon
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
1
Conservation Limit
0

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Black Crappie

Black Crappie
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
15
Conservation Limit
10

Total daily catch and possession limit for white and black crappie combined.

Bluegill

Bluegill
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
50
Conservation Limit
25

Pumpkinseed, Bluegill, Green Sunfish, Northern Sunfish, and Orange-spotted Sunfish limits combined

Brook Trout

Brook trout
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
5
Conservation Limit
2

not more than 1 greater than 30 cm ( 12" ). No size limit in some areas

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Brook trout
Additional Fishing Opportunities
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
1
Conservation Limit
0

must be greater than 56 cm

All tributaries to Lake Superior in Zone 6 described as follows:

  • Current River downstream from the Boulevard Lake Dam (48°27′N., 89°11′W.);
  • Coldwater Creek downstream from Ouimet Canyon Road (48°45′N., 88°36′W.);
  • Spring Creek downstream from Dorion Fish Culture Station (48°50′N., 88°36′W.);
  • Wolf River downstream from the lower falls (48°50′58″N., 88°34′87″W.);
  • Black Sturgeon River downstream from the dam (48°55′N., 88°23′W.);
  • Nipigon River, entire length including Jessie Lake, Polly Lake and Lake Helen;
  • From the Pigeon River to the Nipigon River, all tributaries lying downstream from Highway 61 and Highway 11/17, including Sibley and Black Bay Peninsula and all islands and excluding those listed in the first six sub-bullets above.
Brook trout
Additional Fishing Opportunities
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
5
Conservation Limit
2
  • Adrian Lake (48°27′10″N, 89°48′58″W)
  • Aldina Lake (48°21′31″N, 89°58′41″W)
  • Annette Lake (49°26′06″N, 89°39′49″W)
  • Bateman Lake (48°30′33″N, 89°45′17″W)
  • Bell Lake (48°06′16″N, 89°42′26″W)
  • Birch Lake (48°10′28″N, 90°07′18″W)
  • Blake’s Lake (48°56′57″N, 88°28′11″W)
  • Caribou Lake (48°37′23″N, 88°40′14″W)
  • Caro Lake (49°06′13″N, 88°57′50″W)
  • Cavern Lake (48°50′04″N, 88°39′35″W)
  • Chub Lake (48°16′54″N, 89°34′22″W)
  • Deer Lake (49°03′36″N, 88°20′23″W)
  • Devon Lake (48°09′18″N, 89°50′45″W)
  • Devonline Lake (48°09′33″N, 89°50′58″W)
  • Downy Lake (48°14′23″N, 89°52′10″W)
  • Duchess Lake (Dutchies Lake) (48°52′26″N, 88°34′18″W)
  • Echo Lake (48°19′30″N, 89°53′33″W)
  • Elbow Lake (48°10′56″N, 90°16′23″W)
  • Fall Lake (48°47′51″N, 88°38′02″W)
  • Five Minute Lake (48°40′28″N, 88°48′04″W)
  • Float Lake (48°20′37″N, 89°53′20″W)
  • Forrest Lake (48°07′24″N, 90°15′14″W)
  • Furcate Lake (48°47′11″N, 88°45′50″W)
  • Goddard Lake (49°42′22″N, 87°43′38″W)
  • Gold Lake (48°30′05″N, 89°45′08″W)
  • Golding Lake (48°35′49″N, 89°14′00″W)
  • Goodmorning Lakes North (48°47'11″N, 88°42'03″W)
  • Goodmorning Lakes South (48°46'41″N, 88°41'47″W)
  • Grande Lake (48°49′09″N, 88°40′52″W)
  • Hans’ Lake (McMaster Lake 79) (49°01′53″N, 88°35′04″W)
  • Hartington Lake 1 (48°09′04″N, 89°56′37″W) – Hartington Township
  • Hartington Lake 2 (48°08′32″N, 89°57′18″W) – Hartington Township
  • Hartington Lake 3 (48°08′49″N, 89°56′57″W) – Hartington Township
  • Head Lake (48°16′50″N, 90°09′30″W)
  • Himdick Lake (48°45′22″N, 88°43′30″W)
  • Inwood Lake (49°01′10″N, 90°26′45″W)
  • Jeff Lake (48°43′14″N, 88°39′58″W)
  • Joan Lake (48°06′19″N, 89°43′38″W)
  • Lauries Lakes 1 (48°15′01″N, 90°16′32″W)
  • Lauries Lake 3 (Larrys Lake 3) (48°14′16″N, 90°17′18″W)
  • Lauries Lake 4 (Larrys Lake 4) (48°14′30″N, 90°17′16″W)
  • Lismore Lake 1 (48°09′28″N, 89°56′42″W)
  • Lismore Lake 2 (48°09′21″N, 89°57′06″W)
  • Little Addie Lake (48°09′18″N, 90°25′02″W)
  • Little Hawkeye Lake (48°40′08″N, 89°27′40″W)
  • Little Head Lake (48°16′20″N, 90°08′21″W)
  • Liver Lake (48°36′33″N, 88°56′28″W)
  • Lizard Lake (48°14′33″N, 89°52′23″W)
  • Loch Muich Lake (48°36′14″N, 90°20′39″W)
  • Lofquist Lake (49°02′18″N, 88°20′21″W)
  • Lorne’s Lake (49°03′47″N, 88°35′57″W)
  • Lower Moonshine Lake (48°52′25″N, 88°35′59″W)
  • Malborne Lake (49°11′52″N, 88°25′15″W)
  • Male Lake (49°13′11″N, 88°22′33″W)
  • Matson Lake (48°05′48″N, 89°42′04″W)
  • McKecknie Lake (48°07′25″N, 90°14′21″W)
  • Middle Moonshine Lake (48°52′39″N, 88°36′04″W)
  • Moonshine Lake (48°52′53″N, 88°36′12″W)
  • Morrison Lake (48°11′09″N, 89°52′44″W)
  • Mutt Lake (48°43′25″N, 88°40′09″W)
  • No Good Lake (49°03′00″N, 88°21′00″W)
  • Nunya Lake (49°28'59″N, 89°35'27″W)
  • Paradise Lake (48°40′55″N, 88°48′20″W)
  • Peridotite Lake (48°29′34″N, 89°46′50″W)
  • Peter’s Lake (48°57′13″N, 88°28′58″W)
  • Pocket Lake (48°52′19″N, 88°40′39″W)
  • Ranger Lake (48°23′16″N, 89°52′10″W)
  • Rock Lake (48°11′13″N, 90°05′29″W)
  • Roll Lake (Lake 19) (48°38′30″N, 88°57′37″W)
  • Sand Lake North (48°15′18″N, 90°14′25″W)
  • Scott Lake 1 (48°10′51″N, 90°18′47″W)
  • Scott Lake 2 (48°10′41″N, 90°17′49″W)
  • Shale Lake (48°53′36″N, 88°43′16″W)
  • Shoepac Lake (49°00′50″N, 88°22′47″W)
  • Sitches Lake (48°39′24″N, 90°38′27″W)
  • South Fallingsnow East Lake (48°08′21″N, 89°47′46″W)
  • South Fallingsnow West Lake (48°08′33″N, 89°48′00″W)
  • Stillwater Lake (49°02′07″N, 88°24′17″W)
  • Sunset Lake (48°44′19″N, 88°40′55″W)
  • Sunset Lake (48°12′11″N, 89°56′20″W)
  • Tear Drop Lake (48°37′17″N, 90°21′60″W)
  • Ten Minute Lake (48°22′38″N, 89°52′14″W)
  • Thompson Lake (48°52′52″N, 88°34′42″W)
  • Thompson Lake 2 (48°17′37″N, 89°35′06″W)
  • Thunder Lake (48°29′55″N, 89°45′55″W)
  • Tuesday Lake (48°44′15″N, 89°05′16″W)
  • Twin Mountain Lake (48°10′47″N, 89°49′33″W)
  • Unnamed Lake 9 (49°02′12″N, 88°28′20″W)
  • Unnamed Lake 19 (49°02′11″N, 88°26′23″W)
  • Unnamed Lake 20 (49°00′31″N, 88°28′44″W)
  • Unnamed Lake 21 (49°00′03″N, 88°28′08″W)
  • Unnamed Lake 22 (48°58′05″N, 88°32′09″W)
  • Unnamed Lake 34 (49°01′55″N, 88°25′13″W)
  • Unnamed Lake 39 (48°56′32″N, 88°25′45″W)
  • Wasp Lake (48°13′31″N, 90°11′12″W)
  • West Arrow Lake (48°07′35″N, 90°26′13″W)
  • West Greenhue Lake (48°42′01″N, 89°27′03″W)
  • West MacDonald Lake (48°50′16″N, 88°38′45″W)

Brown Trout

Brown Trout
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
5
Conservation Limit
2

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Channel Catfish

Channel Catfish
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
12
Conservation Limit
6

Chinook Salmon

Chinook Salmon
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
5
Conservation Limit
2

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Coho Salmon

Coho Salmon
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
5
Conservation Limit
2

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Green Sunfish

Green Sunfish
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
50
Conservation Limit
25

Pumpkinseed, Bluegill, Green Sunfish, Northern Sunfish, and Orange-spotted Sunfish limits combined

Lake Sturgeon

Lake Sturgeon
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Closed to fishing
Closed to fishing

Closed all year.

Lake Trout

Lake Trout
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
2
Conservation Limit
1

not more than 1 greater than 56 cm ( 22" ) from September 1 to September 30. No size limit the rest of the season

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Lake Trout
Additional Fishing Opportunities
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
2
Conservation Limit
1

no size limit

  • Black Sturgeon Lake (49°19’27”N., 88°51’34”W.)
  • Keemle Lake (49°17’00”N., 88°07’00”W.)
  • Pasha Lake (49°42’00”N., 87°43’00”W.) - Walters Township
  • Pass Lake (48°33′45″N, 88°44′05″W)

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Lake Trout
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Closed to fishing
Closed to fishing

Season: closed all year

  • Shebandowan Lakes (48°38’53”N., 90°19’22”W.)

Lake Whitefish

Lake Whitefish
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
12
Conservation Limit
6

Largemouth Bass

Largemouth Bass
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
4
Conservation Limit
2

Total daily catch and possession limit for all largemouth and smallmouth bass combined

Muskellunge

Muskellunge
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
1
Conservation Limit
0

must be greater than 91 cm ( 35 3/4" )

Northern Pike

Northern Pike
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
4
Conservation Limit
2

not more than 1 greater than or equal to 70 cm ( 27 1/2" )

 

Northern Sunfish

Northern Sunfish
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
50
Conservation Limit
25

Pumpkinseed, Bluegill, Green Sunfish, Northern Sunfish, and Orange-spotted Sunfish limits combined

Orange-spotted Sunfish

Orange-spotted Sunfish
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
50
Conservation Limit
25

Pumpkinseed, Bluegill, Green Sunfish, Northern Sunfish, and Orange-spotted Sunfish limits combined

Pink Salmon

Pink Salmon
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
5
Conservation Limit
2

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Pumpkinseed

Pumpkinseed
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
50
Conservation Limit
25

Pumpkinseed, Bluegill, Green Sunfish, Northern Sunfish, and Orange-spotted Sunfish limits combined

Rainbow Trout

Rainbow Trout
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
1
Conservation Limit
0

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Rainbow Trout
Additional Fishing Opportunities
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
5
Conservation Limit
2

Additional Fishing Opportunities

Limits: S-5 and C-2

  • Amanda Lake (49°29’01”N., 89°34’06”W.)
  • Badger Lake (49°29’48”N., 89°31’39”W.)
  • Danielle Lake (49°29'16"N., 89°34'38"W.)
  • D'Arcy Lake (48°35′49″N, 88°39′38″W)
  • Dayle Lake (49°24’52”N., 89°41’47”W.)
  • Dennis Lake (49°28'55"N., 89°35'56"W)
  • Hades Lake (48°44′10″N, 88°48′58″W)
  • Lake 81E (48°13’42”N., 89°54’17”W.) - Strange Township
  • Pothole Lake (48°13’47”N., 89°53’45”W.) - Lybster Township
  • Sandybeach Lake (48°46'42"N.,88°46'09"W.) - Dorion Township
  • Uncle Al’s Lake (48°26′32″N, 89°50′02″W)
  • Ursus Lake (48°35'35″N, 89°01'11″W)
  • Wednesday Lake (48°44′13″N, 89°05′47″W)

S-1; must be greater than 69 cm, and C-0

  • Neebing River

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Sauger

Sauger
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
4
Conservation Limit
2

not more than 1 greater than 46 cm ( 18" )

Walleye and Sauger limits combined

Sauger
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
4
Conservation Limit
2

not more than 1 greater than 46 cm ( 18" )

Walleye and Sauger limits combined

Smallmouth Bass

Smallmouth Bass
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
4
Conservation Limit
2

Total daily catch and possession limit for all largemouth and smallmouth bass combined

Splake

Splake
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
5
Conservation Limit
2

Total daily catch and possession limit for all trout, salmon and splake species combined

Walleye

Walleye
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
4
Conservation Limit
2

not more than 1 greater than 46 cm ( 18" )

Walleye and Sauger limits combined

Walleye
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
4
Conservation Limit
2

not more than 1 greater than 46 cm ( 18" )

Walleye and Sauger limits combined

Walleye
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Closed to fishing
Closed to fishing

Season: closed all year

  • Black Sturgeon River - downstream from the dam (48°55’N., 88°23’W.) to Lake Superior

White Crappie

White Crappie
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
15
Conservation Limit
10

Total daily catch and possession limit for white and black crappie combined.

Yellow Perch

Yellow Perch
Season Start Date
Season End Date
Sport Limit
50
Conservation Limit
25

Possession limit of 100 in Whitefish Lake (48°13'00"N., 90°00'00"W.)