Freshwater Fishing.
Lake Simcoe's north shore along Oro-Medonte holds cold-water lake trout and whitefish year-round under Fisheries Management Zone 16 — the lake's deep waters support both the open-water and through-the-ice fishery, with public access at Bayview Memorial Park, Carthew Bay, and Hawkestone Memorial Park.
The brief.
Lake Simcoe sits in Fisheries Management Zone 16; the lake trout open seasons run January 1 to March 15 (ice-fishing window) and from the second Saturday in May to September 30 (open-water window), with daily limits of 2 lake trout on Sport licence and 1 on Conservation licence. Whitefish overlap the same waters and seasons.
Inshore warmwater bass and pike open in summer along the north-shore shallows. Bass Lake on the eastern edge of the township carries smallmouth bass and panfish under the same FMZ.
Through-the-ice fishing on the deep north shore is variable year to year — Lake Simcoe ice formation depends on winter conditions, and unsafe ice closes the fishery faster than the regulatory window does.
Today's read.
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