Zone 14 Fishing Regulations
Zone-wide open seasons for Fisheries Management Zone 14, from the 2026 Ontario Fishing Regulations Summary.
Zone 14 is Georgian Bay water, including Big Sound of Parry Sound and the St. Marys River. It is treated as part of the Great Lakes for bait purposes, and two species are simply not present here.
These are the zone-wide seasons. Individual lakes and rivers in Zone 14 can carry their own rules on top of them, and this page does not list size limits or catch limits — those are on the official Zone 14 page, which is where you should check before you fish.
Zone 14 open seasons
Season dates only. Where the regulation is written as a rule (“third Saturday in June”), this year’s actual dates are worked out from it rather than typed in, so they cannot go stale.
| Species | Open season |
|---|---|
| Atlantic salmon | Open all year |
| Brown trout | Open all year |
| Channel catfish | Open all year |
| Crappie | Open all year |
| Lake herring (cisco) | Open all year |
| Lake sturgeon | Closed all year |
| Lake trout | January 1 to September 30 and December 1 to December 31 |
| Lake whitefish | Open all year |
| Largemouth and smallmouth bass combined | fourth Saturday in June to November 302026 season: June 27 to November 30 |
| Muskellunge | third Saturday in June to December 152026 season: June 20 to December 15 |
| Northern pike | January 1 to March 1 and May 1 to December 31 |
| Pacific salmon | Open all year |
| Rainbow trout | Open all year |
| Sunfish | Open all year |
| Walleye and sauger combined | January 1 to March 1 and May 1 to December 31 |
| Yellow perch | Open all year |
Waters with their own rules
3 waters or areas in Zone 14 carry regulations that differ from the zone-wide seasons above. If you are fishing one of these, the zone table is not the whole story:
- Big Sound of Parry Sound
- Iroquois Bay
- St. Marys River
See the waterbody exceptions for Zone 14 →
What this page does not cover
Size limits, catch and possession limits, and the waterbody-specific exceptions are deliberately left off. They change from year to year and from lake to lake, and a number copied onto a personal website is exactly the kind of thing that goes out of date quietly and costs somebody a fine. The seasons above are the zone-wide rules; everything else belongs on the official page.
Always check the official summary before you fish. This page is a starting point, not a substitute for it — and you need a valid Ontario fishing licence.
Seasons transcribed from the 2026 Ontario Fishing Regulations Summary — Fisheries Management Zone 14. Rules last checked against the official page on September 14, 2026. Opening dates are calculated from the regulation, not typed in, so they stay correct as the years roll over.
