Chinook Salmon fishing near Richmond Hill, ON

368 documented waters within 300 km, 8 of them with chinook salmon as the primary species.

Where they are biting today

Fishing chinook salmon around Richmond Hill

The waters around Richmond Hill give chinook salmon anglers real options: 368 documented waters in range are on record for chinook salmon in our Ontario catalogue, and their daily scores - built from weather, water temperature at depth and species-fit modelling - decide the order shown above rather than reputation or hearsay.

Start with Georgian Bay (baie Georgienne), today's top scorer at 75 (about 112 km from Richmond Hill, roughly 229 m of water at its deepest). If it is busy or the wind is wrong, Lake Ontario (lac Ontario) scores 75 (about 54 km from Richmond Hill, roughly 244 m of water at its deepest). Lake Ontario (lac Ontario) at 74 is the third card worth keeping in hand. All of these numbers come from the same daily model, so they are directly comparable water to water.

Chinook (king) salmon are the largest Pacific salmon species and, where present in Great Lakes tributaries and open water, are a genuine trophy target pursued with serious, dedicated gear - heavy trolling setups with downriggers, large flashers, and spoons or plugs in open water, or bait and heavier spinning/casting gear once fish stage near river mouths and move upstream to spawn. Lake Ontario chinook follow temperature and baitfish rather than bottom structure, riding the thermocline in water in the low 50s F offshore in summer, then concentrating off river mouths such as the Ganaraska, Credit and Niagara before fall runs.

Treat this page as a living shortlist: the ranking refreshes daily (currently showing September 14, 2026), and a shift in wind, cloud cover or water temperature is often enough to reorder it.

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