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Fishing in Port Colborne is an amazing experience, offering year-round, worldclass sport fishing. With access to Lake Erie and the Upper Niagara River, Port Colborne offers beautiful scenery and excellent fishing. Well known for its trophy fish: Trout, Walleye and Bass, the Upper Niagara River provides some of the best Bass fishing from June to November. Lake Erie, the smallest of the Great Lakes in volume, measures 241 miles across and 57 miles from north to south, with a depth of 62 feet. Because it warms rapidly in the spring and summer and freezes frequently in the winter, Lake Erie is an ideal location to catch the Spring and Fall Salmon and Trout Run. Lake Erie is recognized as one of the province’s best fishing spots for Perch but anglers have a variety of options, as Walleye, Salmon and Trout are also thriving in Lake Erie. Port Colborne’s waterways are world renowned. Big names like Bob Izumi love to fish these waters, as do tournaments like the Budweiser Can-Am Walleye Challenge, Canal Days Fishing Tournament, Bass Kayaking Tournament and a weekly Walleye League.
