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General Information • See General Fishing Regulations for more information on how to use this summary. • There are several Great tributaries that have aligned regulations for Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Pacific Salmon and Atlantic Salmon - see Species Exceptions. • The following waterbodies have regulations that are very different from the Zone-wide season and limits and are only referred to in the Waterbody Exceptions: and . • The following species are not present in this Zone and are closed to fishing all year: Splake.

Zone-wide Seasons and Limits Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass combined Aggregate Limits for Trout and Salmon Season: third Saturday in June to (including Splake) December 15 Limits: S-5 and C-2; total daily catch and Limits: S-6 and C-2 possession limit for all trout and salmon species combined Muskellunge Season: 1st Saturday in June to Atlantic Salmon December 15 Season: fourth Saturday in April to Limits: S-1; must be greater than September 30 112 cm, and C-0 Limits: S-0 and C-0 Northern Pike Brook Trout Season: open all year Season: fourth Saturday in April to Limits: S-6 and C-2 September 30 Limits: S-2 and C-1 Pacific Salmon Season: fourth Saturday in April to Brown Trout September 30 Season: fourth Saturday in April to Limits: S-5 and C-2 September 30 Limits: S-5 and C-2 Rainbow Trout Season: fourth Saturday in April to Channel Catfish September 30 Season: fourth Saturday in April to Limits: S-2 and C-1 November 15 Limits: S-12 and C-6 Sunfish Season: open all year Crappie Limits: S-300; only 30 may be greater Season: open all year than 18 cm, and C-15 Limits: S-30 and C-10 Walleye and Sauger combined Lake Sturgeon Season: second Saturday in May to Season: closed all year November 15 Limits: S-4 and C-1; must be between Lake Trout 35-50 cm Season: fourth Saturday in April to September 30 Limits: S-3 and C-1 Season: open all year Limits: S-50 and C-25 Lake Whitefish Season: fourth Saturday in April to November 15 Limits: S-12 and C-6 Fishing Regulations Summary 2020 127 Zone 17

Species Exceptions at Coboconk, the waters of the Rosedale River between the Trent dam at Rosedale Atlantic Salmon, Brown Trout, Pacific upstream to , the waters of the Salmon and Rainbow Trout Trent Canal between the upstream lock at Rosedale upstream to its junction with the Additional Fishing Opportunities Rosedale River and the waters of the Trent Season: open all year Canal between Balsam Lake and Mitchell Limits: Zone-wide limits apply Lake • Cobourg Brook (Cobourg Creek or Factory • (44°34’46”N., 78°56’54”W.) Creek) - between the southerly limit of the - Eldon Township, including the waters C.N.R. right-of-way and of the Trent Canal between Mitchell Lake • Gages Creek - between the southerly and Balsam Lake, and the waters of the limit of the C.N.R. right-of-way and Lake Trent Canal between Mitchell Lake and lock Ontario number 36 at • Ganaraska River - between the southerly limit of the C.N.R. right-of-way and Lake Waterbody Exceptions Ontario • Regional Municipality of Durham - all Lake Scugog and - All waters lying between the southerly limit of waters of Lake Scugog and Scugog River the C.N.R. right-of-way and Lake Ontario - including waters south of Highway 7A, Season: open from fourth Saturday in Blackstock Creek, Nonquon River, as well April to December 31 (extended fall as the Scugog River to the Trent Severn season) Dam in Lindsay, Mariposa Brook and East Limits: Zone-wide limits apply Cross Creek • Northumberland County - all waters • Walleye - closed all year downstream of Highway 2, except the Lake Scugog - Scugog Township, 100m on Ganaraska River which may only be both sides of Highway 7A (causeways) fished downstream of the south side of • Fish Sanctuary - no fishing from January the C.P.R. bridge 1 to Friday before second Saturday in • Regional Municipality of Durham - all May and November 16 to December 31 waters between Highway 2 and the Scugog River - Lindsay in , southerly limit of the C.N.R. right-of-way from Trent-Severn Dam to Ops-Fenelon Boundary Walleye • Fish Sanctuary - no fishing from January 1 to Friday after second Saturday in May Season: January 1 to March 1 and November 16 to December 31 and second Saturday in May to December 31 Trent River Limits: Zone-wide limits apply • Fish Sanctuary - No fishing from January • Crowe Lake (44°29’00”N., 77°44’00”W.) 1 to Friday after second Saturday in May - Marmora Township, and the waters of and November 16 to December 31 in the the (Marmora and Rawdon following areas: Townships) • Healey Falls - Seymour Township, all water flowing from the north-westerly Season: Zone-wide seasons apply side of the bridge on County Road 50 to Limits: S-3 and C-1; none between Crowe Bay 37-55 cm • Village of Hastings, 500 m upstream of • Balsam Lake (44°34’54”N., 78°51’10”W.) - the dam and 1 km downstream of the , including the waters dam of the upstream to the dam

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Trent River - waters from the first dam Bob Dam) (Number One) above Lake Ontario • Burleigh Falls, Perry’s Creek, Stony Lake - upstream to Lock Number 9 (Myers Lock) Smith and Harvey Townships, Trent-Severn at the head of Percy Reach Dam to Stony Lake • Walleye - open from January 1 to • Fenelon River - Fenelon Falls in Fenelon March 1 and second Saturday in May to Township, from Trent-Severn Dam to December 31 second power line 1 km downstream • Fishog River - from the mouth of the river Fish Sanctuaries at Head Lake (44°45’N., 78°54’W.) to the base of the waterfalls approximately 1.5 km No fishing - closed all year upstream • Cobourg Brook - Town of Cobourg, from • Gull River - Coboconk in Bexley and the downstream side of the lamprey Somerville Townships, from Trent-Severn barrier downstream to the south side of Dam downstream to narrows approaching the King Street Bridge Balsam Lake • Ganaraska River - Town of Port Hope, • Katchewanooka Lake - Young’s Point in from Highway 401 downstream to the Smith and Douro Townships, from Trent- south side of the Jocelyn Street Bridge Severn Dam to the downstream (west) side No fishing - January 1 to Friday before of the Highway 28 bridge the second Saturday in May and • Lovesick Dams - former Townships of Smith November 16 to December 31 and Harvey, 100 m downstream from each • - Smith and Ennismore dam Townships, 100 m on both sides of • Lower (Buckhorn) - Smith causeway (Bridgenorth Causeway) on and Harvey Townships, from Trent-Severn County Road 16 Dam to a point 400 m below the dam • Crowe River - from the Marmora Dam • - Peterborough, from Trent- downstream to the north side of the Severn Dam at Lock 19 to Bensfort Bridge Highway 7 bridge at County Road 2 (20 km downstream) • Gannon’s Narrows - Harvey and Ennismore • Pigeon River - Omemee in , Townships, within 100 m of both sides of from Omemee Dam to C.N.R. bridge the causeway on County Road 16 • Rosedale River - Rosedale in Fenelon • Lake Scugog- see Waterbody Exceptions Township, from the Trent-Severn Dam to No fishing - January 1 to Friday after the second Saturday in May and • Scugog River - see Waterbody Exceptions November 16 to December 31 • - Kirkfield in , • River - Bobcaygeon, from fronting Concessions 7, 8 and 9 Trent-Severn Dam to and Little • Trent River - see Waterbody Exceptions Bob Dam to Pigeon Lake (100 m from Little 250,000 LAKES PLAN YOUR 4 BILLION ONTARIO FISH FISHING 2,000 LODGES VACATION 1 ANGLER’S PARADISE ONTARIOTRAVEL.NET/GOFISH

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