Yellow perch
Good
The ice season where the ice is safe: small spoons and tungsten jigs tipped with minnow heads, moving hole to hole to find the school.
Long Point Bay, Lake Erie Fishing Report
Updated Mon, Nov 9, 2026 from live weather and water data
Long Point Bay on Lake Erie: perch, bass, pike and walleye in the shallow inner bay, with a spring sanctuary in its eastern half and a public ramp at Port Rowan.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Water temp
~8 °C est.
Air / High
7 °C / 10 °C
Wind
WNW 20 km/h
Sources: Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Long Point Bay, Lake Erie has cold water and fish that move for very little; fish the warmest hours. Today brings cloud cover, wind WNW around 21 km/h, rising pressure near 1012 hPa and a high of 11 °C. Water sits around 8 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:47 PM-1:47 AM and 11:23 AM-1:23 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Walleye (pickerel)
Good
Through the ice where it is safe: jigging spoons and a dead-stick minnow near the bottom at first and last light. Open rivers: slow jigs in the deep holes.
Tie on: Jigging spoon through the ice · Dead-stick minnow · Tip-up with dead bait · Tungsten jig and wax worm. Prime windows: 11:47 PM-1:47 AM, 11:23 AM-1:23 PM, 7:19 AM-8:19 AM. Warmer at 14 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Ontario requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from C$12.21. Ontario fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing yellow perch here? Check the size and bag limits with Ontario MNR before you keep anything; the Yellow perch page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Long Point Bay, Lake Erie today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (07:05), sunset (17:04), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:47 PM-1:47 AM and 11:23 AM-1:23 PM; minor 7:19 AM-8:19 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Conditions here are modelled from weather, season and the nearest stations.
No live gauge on this water
Water readings appear when a Water Survey of Canada station covers it. Until then the seasonal curve below is the estimate.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp7 °C
High / Low10 °C / 6 °C
WindWNW 20 km/h, gusts 51 km/h
Pressure101.24 kPa, rising
Sky / Rain100% cloud, 18%
Sunrise / Sunset07:05 / 17:04
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~8 °C est.
The level of the whole lake, live at both ends: Lake Erie water level today.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Long Point Bay, Lake Erie
The best day on Long Point Bay, Lake Erie this week looks like Sunday Nov 15, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Sunday, Nov 15 — good at 4/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, Nov 9 — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 11:47 PM-1:47 AM and 11:23 AM-1:23 PM
- Minor period
- 7:19 AM-8:19 AM
- Sun
- 07:05 to 17:04
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 23 km/h
- Rain chance
- 18%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Long Point Bay, Lake Erie: seasons written for the Canadian year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Yellow perch
Year-round; the ice season at Lake Simcoe and Long Point
Open all year Walleye and sauger, yellow perch and northern pike are open all year in Zone 19. Rule as read from Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources on 2026-09-27.
The ice-fishing fish of Lake Simcoe, Long Point Bay and Lake St. Clair, and a summer staple on every Great Lakes shore. Schools move constantly. The ice season where the ice is safe: small spoons and tungsten jigs tipped with minnow heads, moving hole to hole to find the school.
Walleye (pickerel)
Spring opener to fall, and the ice
Open all year Walleye and sauger, yellow perch and northern pike are open all year in Zone 19. Rule as read from Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources on 2026-09-27.
Called pickerel in much of Ontario and Manitoba. The fish of Lake of the Woods, Lake Winnipeg and the Red River, Lake Diefenbaker, Tobin Lake, Lake Erie and the Bay of Quinte. Most zones close in spring for the spawn. Through the ice where it is safe: jigging spoons and a dead-stick minnow near the bottom at first and last light. Open rivers: slow jigs in the deep holes.
Smallmouth bass
Opens late June in most of Ontario; best July to October
Open now Closes Dec 1, 2026. Largemouth and smallmouth bass are open from the fourth Saturday in June to 30 November. Rule as read from Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources on 2026-09-27.
The rock-and-current bass of the Great Lakes shores, the Bay of Quinte, the St. Lawrence and Lake St. Clair. The Ontario bass season opens in late June in most zones, after the nesting period. Closed or out of season in most waters.
When to come: the Long Point Bay, Lake Erie calendar
Activity by species and month for the Canadian year, and how the water warms and cools. Tap any cell.
Species activity by month
1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted. January is midsummer here.
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Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 8 °C (estimated, not a reading).
Angler reports
Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. Nothing here is copied from a shop or a charter. The water log below tracks each day automatically.
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Water log, last days
Auto-logged from live dataSun, Nov 8
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Yellow perch led the card at good. High of 13 °C, wind to 35 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Yellow perch led the card at good. High of 9 °C, wind to 21 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Yellow perch led the card at good. High of 12 °C, wind to 21 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Outdoors Card and Ontario fishing licence, from C$12.21 for a resident adult, with higher prices for other Canadians and visitors. Details and where to buy → Except on a one-day licence you also need the Outdoors Card.
Regulations
Size and bag limits, closed seasons and protected areas are set by Ontario MNR and, in salt water and for salmon, by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Ontario licence page before you keep anything. The zone-by-zone seasons and limits are on Ontario fishing seasons.
Access
An Outdoors Card and an Ontario fishing licence are needed, and two lines may be used from a boat in open water anywhere in Zone 19.
About this water
Long Point Bay, Lake Erie is a lake in Ontario, Canada, covered from the Ontario reports and listed in all Canada waters.
Fishing Long Point Bay, Lake Erie: the full guide
Long Point Bay
Long Point is the long sand spit that reaches into Lake Erie from Norfolk County, and the bay it shelters is the heart of the Long Point Biosphere Reserve, designated by UNESCO in 1986. UNESCO puts the inner bay, between the spit and the north shore, at about 78 square kilometres. The inner bay off Port Rowan, St. Williams and Turkey Point is shallow and weedy; the outer bay opens to the lake. There is no live public level gauge for the bay, so the report here is built from the weather and the season.
Species and seasons
The bay is in Fisheries Management Zone 19, where yellow perch, walleye and northern pike are open all year and largemouth and smallmouth bass open on the fourth Saturday in June and close on 30 November. Muskellunge open on the first Saturday in June. Brook trout, splake and lake sturgeon are closed all year in the zone.
The spring sanctuary
The eastern half of the inner bay, listed under Walsingham and Norfolk townships, is a fish sanctuary from 15 May to the Friday before the fourth Saturday in June: no fishing of any kind. Ontario notes that sanctuaries are not always marked with signs, so check the Zone 19 description before heading east across the bay in late spring.
Where to fish it
The weedy inner bay is largemouth, pike and perch water, and the harder bottom toward the outer bay holds smallmouth. Norfolk County’s Port Rowan Harbour Marina has a public launching ramp. Big Creek, which flows into the bay, has an all-year season for brown and rainbow trout downstream of Regional Road 21 under the Zone 16 rules.
Protected land
Part of the spit is the Long Point National Wildlife Area, where federal rules apply rather than Ontario’s, and Long Point Provincial Park, established in 1921, sits at its base; Ontario Parks describes fishing and boating in the bay from the park. In winter, Zone 19 ice huts must be registered online and removed before 16 March, and the outer bay’s ice can open with the wind.
Reading this report here
The water temperature estimate, labelled as one, follows the shallow bay’s quick warm-up in spring and cool-down in fall. West and southwest winds decide whether the outer bay can be fished, and pressure and cloud feed the score.
Licence, access and rules
An Outdoors Card and an Ontario fishing licence are needed, and two lines may be used from a boat in open water anywhere in Zone 19. The zone’s seasons, limits and sanctuaries are in the summary linked below, and our Ontario licence page has the fees.
Common questions
What can I catch in Long Point Bay?
Yellow perch, smallmouth and largemouth bass, northern pike and walleye, under the Lake Erie rules of Zone 19.
Is any of Long Point Bay closed to fishing?
Yes: the eastern half of the inner bay is a sanctuary from 15 May to the Friday before the fourth Saturday in June.
Where do I launch at Long Point Bay?
At Port Rowan: the harbour marina there, owned by Norfolk County, has a public ramp.
Is fishing good at Long Point Bay, Lake Erie right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- Open-Meteo forecast model
- https://open-meteo.com/
- Fish stocking
- Ontario fish stocking report
- Moon and solunar windows
- Calculated on this site
- Pages checked
- The written guide on this page
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