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Guide To Fishing On America's Great Lakes

Pick A LakePick A SpeciesPick A State

  • Lake Erie
  • Lake Huron
  • Lake Michigan
  • Lake Ontario
  • Lake Superior

Big lakes, big water, big fish and big fun are in order when you spend a day fishing on one of the Great Lakes. Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario and Lake Superior are all aptly named great lakes.Pick any one of the five and you may be in for the trip and/or trophy fish of a lifetime. Together these five lakes cover over 90,000 square miles and have a collective shoreline of over 9,700 miles. That's a lot of water to fish and a lot of shoreline to explore.

Fish species* residing in one or more of The Great Lakes

Click images for fishing tips and details about each species.

Largemouth bass Smallmouth bass Channel catfish Black crappie Walleye Sauger Rainbow Trout Brook Trout Brown trout Lake trout Steelhead Fishing Bluegill Green Sunfish Pumpkinseed Sunfish Rock Bass White Bass White Perch Yellow Bass Yellow Perch Atlantic Salmon Chinook Salmon Coho Salmon Pink Salmon Muskie Northern Pike

Click the images and links above for species details.

*Species covered in this website.

The Five Great Lakes

Lake Erie
Lake Huron
Lake Michigan
Lake Ontario
Lake Superior

Fishing in The Great Lakes.

States with direct access to The Great Lakes

Illinois
Michigan
Minnesota
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin

The Great Lakes Map

The Great Lakes Contact Information

Great Lakes Fishery Commission
2200 Commonwealth Blvd., Suite 100
Ann Arbor, MI, 48105
734 662-3209

 

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