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Great Lakes Fishing Guide: The 26 Best Places to Fish

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Limits of jumbo perch are available in the shadows of Chicago skyscrapers, or you can catch giant lake trout in the remotest of locations around Lake Superior. During the past couple of years, salmon fishing has been phenomenal in lakes Michigan and Ontario; walleye, smallmouth, and steelhead fishing continues to be tremendous on Lake Erie. Lake Huron is a great place for lake trout, whitefish, and walleyes, with steelhead, pink salmon, and Atlantic salmon all showing up at different ports at different times of the year. The bottom line? Whether you trailer your own boat, hire a charter, or fish from the beach or a pier, you'll find something well worth catching in the Great Lakes. Here's our guide to the 26 best spots to fish in the Great Lakes. – Lake Superior
– Lake Michigan
– Lake Huron
– Lake Erie
– Lake Ontario Outdoor Life
great lakes map
Many anglers refer to Superior as Gitche Gumee, the Ojibwe name made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem about Hiawatha. The moniker means "big water," and is an understated way to refer to this inconceivably enormous freshwater sea that could contain the total volume of the other four lakes combined. Much of this lake remains in its natural, unspoiled state. Fishery managers are highly optimistic that fishing for its well-known lake trout and oft overlooked steelhead, smallmouths, walleyes, muskies, and salmon will be excellent this season. Outdoor Life
lake michigan pike
Target Species: Northern pike and muskies Timing: June and July Tactic: Fish weed beds and long points in Waiska and Izaak Walton bays, both up the St. Marys River toward Lake Superior. Big jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, and bucktails work for casters, while many successful pike anglers anchor or slowly drift with a dead smelt or live sucker below a bobber. Pro Tip: "As summer wears on and the water warms, you'll need to slow troll the deeper weed beds–12- to 18-foot depths," says muskie angler and lure maker Rod Jones. Launch: Charles T. Harvey City Marina; also Bay Mills Casino Shore Fishing: Bay Mills Casino shoreline in protected Waiska Bay. Depending on the time of year, but especially in winter, shorebound anglers here can catch walleyes, northerns, and whitefish. garyengberg
great lakes smallmouth
Target Species: Smallmouth bass Timing: June until ice-up Tactic: The bass season traditionally opens here the first weekend of May and allows anglers–including a large coterie of flyfishermen–to catch and release fish that are on beds until about the first weekend of June. A decades-old regulation allowing bass fishers to keep just one fish of 22 inches or better has created a true trophy fishery. Anglers find fish around rocks and old ore dock pilings, and on la

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