ST. MARYS RIVER NEAR GARDEN RIVER

Species regulated in this area

These are species and groups covered by the applicable area rules, not a claim that they occur at this station.

Default rules for this area. A grey row means the current season status is not confirmed by this release.

• Brown trout Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Open all year Details Close

  • Open all year

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    5

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    2

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Channel catfish Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Open all year Details Close

  • Open all year

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    12

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    6

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Crappie Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Open all year Details Close

  • Open all year

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    30

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    10

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Lake whitefish Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Open all year Details Close

  • Open all year

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    12

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    6

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Largemouth and smallmouth bass combined Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Jun 20 – Nov 30 Details Close

  • Jun 20 – Nov 30

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    6

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    3

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Muskellunge Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Jun 20 – Dec 15 Details Close

  • Jun 20 – Dec 15

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    1

    Size rule

    must be greater than 122 centimetres

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Northern pike Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Open all year Details Close

  • Open all year

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    6

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    2

    Size rule

    not more than 1 greater than 61 centimetres none greater than 86 centimetres ; none greater than 61 centimetres

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Pacific salmon Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Open all year Details Close

  • Open all year

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    5

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    2

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Rainbow trout Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Open all year Details Close

  • Open all year

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    2

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    1

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Splake Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Open all year Details Close

  • Open all year

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    5

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    2

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Sunfish Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Open all year Details Close

  • Open all year

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    50

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    25

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Walleye and sauger combined Open · Harvest allowed within limits · May 16 – Dec 31; Jan 1 – Mar 15 Details Close

  • May 16 – Dec 31

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    4

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    2

    Size rule

    none greater than 46 centimetres

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Yellow perch Open · Harvest allowed within limits · Open all year Details Close

  • Open all year

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    50

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    25

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Atlantic salmon Closed · Jan 1 – Sep 30 Details Close

  • Jan 1 – Sep 30

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    1

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Brook trout Closed · Jan 1 – Sep 30 Details Close

  • Jan 1 – Sep 30

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    5

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    2

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Lake sturgeon Closed · Closed all year Details Close

  • Closed all year

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

• Lake trout Closed · Jan 1 – Sep 7 Details Close

  • Jan 1 – Sep 7

    Sport licence catch-and-possession limit

    2

    Conservation licence catch-and-possession limit

    1

    Size rule

    not more than 1 greater than 40 centimetres

    Official rule · retrieved Jul 25, 2026

ST. Marys River Near Garden River has documented fish occurrence data from Ontario provincial surveys (Aquatic Resource Area Survey Point, LIO Open Data). The survey records 44 species from observation sampling near this station.

Species include: Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), Rock Bass (Ambloplites rupestris), Brown Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus), Longnose Sucker (Catostomus catostomus), and 39 others.

• Lake Sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens
• Alewife Alosa pseudoharengus
• Rock Bass Ambloplites rupestris
• Brown Bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus
• Longnose Sucker Catostomus catostomus
• White Sucker Catostomus commersonii
• Northern Redbelly Dace Chrosomus eos
• Finescale Dace Chrosomus neogaeus
• Mottled Sculpin Cottus bairdii
• Slimy Sculpin Cottus cognatus
• Brook Stickleback Culaea inconstans
• Northern Pike Esox lucius
• Iowa Darter Etheostoma exile
• Johnny Darter Etheostoma nigrum
• Threespine Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus
• Brassy Minnow Hybognathus hankinsoni
• Silver Lamprey Ichthyomyzon unicuspis
• Longnose Gar Lepisosteus osseus
• Pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus
• American Brook Lamprey Lethenteron appendix
• Common Shiner Luxilus cornutus
• Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu
• Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides
• Shorthead Redhorse Moxostoma macrolepidotum
• Golden Shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas
• Blacknose Shiner Notropis heterolepis
• Spottail Shiner Notropis hudsonius
• Rosyface Shiner Notropis rubellus
• Mimic Shiner Notropis volucellus
• Coho Salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch
• Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss
• Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
• Yellow Perch Perca flavescens
• Logperch Percina caprodes
• Trout-Perch Percopsis omiscomaycus
• Sea Lamprey Petromyzon marinus
• Bluntnose Minnow Pimephales notatus
• Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas
• Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys atratulus
• Longnose Dace Rhinichthys cataractae
• Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis
• Walleye Sander vitreus
• Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus
• Central Mudminnow Umbra limi

5 additional record(s) were reported as unidentified or mixed-taxa observations and are not resolved to species.