Welcome to FISHinONTARIO a Website dedicated to inspiring enthusiasm for fishing Ontario, its abundant lakes, rivers and streams and committed to providing a one-stop source for information about fishing in Ontario.

The word “Ontario” is Iroquoian for “beautiful or shining waters” and, with approximately 250,000 lakes, it’s no wonder that Ontario is the number one fishing destination in North America.

Globally, Ontario contains one quarter of all the available freshwater in the world! Ontario is also renowned for having the world’s largest freshwater island (Manitoulin Island) and the world’s largest lake within a lake ( Manitou Lake on Manitoulin Island)!

The Great Lakes, that define much of Ontario, include Lake Superior (in Northwestern Ontario) which is the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area and there is enough water in all five of the Great Lakes to cover all of the land in Canada twelve feet deep!

The Iroquois, who so wisely named Ontario for it’s “shining waters”’ also intrinsically knew that this area was a fishing paradise. In fact, of the 180 native fish species found in Canada, 144 can be found in the “shining waters” of Ontario.

We, at FISHinONTARIO, recognize Ontario for the fishing paradise that it is and we invite you to visit our pages and discover for yourself why Ontario should be your premier destination if you love fishing as we do.

FISHING FLIES May 16, 1998 Canada Post introduced a Fishing Flies commemorative stamp issue featuring our nation's finest fly patterns.