Northern Pike fishing near Guelph, ON

2,102 documented waters within 300 km, 558 of them with northern pike as the primary species.

Where they are biting today

Fishing northern pike around Guelph

The waters around Guelph give northern pike anglers real options: 2102 documented waters in range are on record for northern pike 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 Madoc Creek, today's top scorer at 77 (about 245 km from Guelph). If it is busy or the wind is wrong, Bronte Creek scores 77 (about 40 km from Guelph). Stoney Creek at 77 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.

Pike are ambush predators that hold near cover - weed edges, fallen timber, drop-offs - and explode out to hit prey rather than chasing it far, which is why casting spoons, spinnerbaits, and large swimbaits right along that cover produces so consistently. Pike hold in vegetated bays, creek mouths and shoals across most of Ontario; in summer, larger fish work cabbage beds growing in roughly 6 to 10 feet of water, favouring the deep weed edge. Trolling shallow-running stickbaits along weed edges locates active fish, then casting weedless spoons, musky-sized spinnerbaits and jerkbaits picks apart the cover; strong leaders are essential against their sharp teeth. In spring, pike concentrate in dark-bottomed bays and near feeder creeks that warm first; as summer heats the shallows, bigger fish slide toward deeper, cooler water near weed beds, and they feed aggressively year-round.

Everything above is recomputed daily - the numbers on this page reflect September 16, 2026 - so check back before committing to a water: the leaders genuinely change as weather systems move through.

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