Best Fishing Spots in Newfoundland and Labrador

This is the one province where the water is called something else. Most mapped waters here are ponds rather than lakes, and that is local usage rather than a difference in size: a Newfoundland pond can be a substantial body of water that another province would call a lake without hesitation. Elevation stays low, a median of 107 metres, and the Atlantic keeps the temperature range narrow so ice forms later and less reliably than at the same latitude inland. The province divides between two climate bands, with the island milder and Labrador colder and longer-frozen. Atlantic salmon dominates the fishing culture and carries the tightest regulation in Canada, with river-by-river closures that change between seasons and must be checked before travelling. Counted up, our listings for Newfoundland and Labrador come to 1,901 waters in 174 counties. Ponds dominate the list, followed by natural lakes. Biggest by surface area is Grand Lake, about 497 sq km. Where surveys exist, the deepest is Grand Lake, close to 299 metres. Averages run -6°C in the cold season and 16°C in the warm one. Most of these waters open up around late April in an average year. Records return brook trout, Atlantic salmon, American eel and bull-rout more often than anything else....