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Pink Salmon

Pink Salmon fishing guide

Habitat, seasonal techniques & recorded Ontario lakes

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The smallest Pacific salmon, an incidental Great Lakes population that runs strongest in odd-numbered years.

Fishing patterns describe when and how fish may feed, not when fishing is legally open. Check zone regulations and waterbody exceptions before you fish.

🌡️ Preferred water temp 10–15°C (50–59°F).
⏰ Best time to catch The fall run in odd-numbered years is essentially the only realistic window.

Pink Salmon habitat and preferred water temperature

The Great Lakes oddball — Superior and Huron tributaries see runs, strongest in odd-numbered years.

Best time to catch Pink Salmon

The fall run in odd-numbered years is essentially the only realistic window.

Pink Salmon fishing techniques by season

Spring

Juveniles at large in the lake; incidental catch.

Summer

Late-summer staging off river mouths in run years.

Fall

The run itself: small pink jigs, spoons and flies swung through pools.

Winter

Not targeted.

Best lures for Pink Salmon

Anything small and pink: jigs, spoons, spinners, egg-sucking leeches.

Lakes with recorded Pink Salmon

A selection of larger named waterbodies from the survey records. Open a profile for lake details and regulations, or see its location on the map.

Open the map and filter by Pink Salmon to see every Ontario waterbody where it's been recorded, with depth, regulations and live conditions for each one.