Anyone know if the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence open for fishing? 

not for bass.  season starts june 16th

I see people fishing over there so i assume its ok to fish. I only fish the new york side so im not positive. Check in with Thousand islands bait and tackle. They will know. They have a website that will have the phone number.

 

I was assuming you were asking because of the covid crap. I guess i should mention that you need an ontario fishing license also. Not sure if thats what you were asking about.

Edited June 17, 20206 yr by Jleebesaw

Well, there are a lot of opinions floating around up at the river as to what you can and can not do, but the RCMP is definitely saying that you can NOT fish on their side unless you are Canadian. We  spent $156 dollars for three non-resident licenses in the first week of June (well into the COVID border restriction ) and they gladly took our money, but didn't mention the fact that the licenses were useless. We were stopped by RCMP  and after a THOROUGH check of ID's  and licenses were told to return to US waters . Funny thing, the USA doesn't have the same rule, so Canadians can fish our waters but we can't fish theirs, but I guess that they still like our money! 

On 6/27/2020 at 4:35 PM, sschrad said:

but the RCMP is definitely saying that you can NOT fish on their side unless you are Canadian. 

Thanks sschrad. I was curious also. I stay in NY but prefer the Canadian side of the river. 

 

I know before the virus we were told we could fish the Canadian side with an Ontario license but we could not go ashore. 

 

I've been fishing up there for many years. It was a very friendly place but since 9/11 they have turned into the Gestapo. 

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