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Northern Pike fishing near St. Thomas, ON

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

Where they are biting today

  1. Mill CreekRiver77
  2. Lake Scugog (Port Perry)Lake77
  3. Grand RiverRiver76
  4. Lake Gibson (St. Catharines)Lake76
  5. Teeswater RiverRiver76
  6. Mad RiverRiver76
  7. Saugeen River (Denny's Dam, Southampton)River76
  8. Little Credit RiverRiver76
  9. West Humber RiverRiver76
  10. Holmes CreekRiver75

Fishing northern pike around St. Thomas

The waters around St. Thomas give northern pike anglers real options: 879 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 Mill Creek, today's top scorer at 77 (about 100 km from St. Thomas). If it is busy or the wind is wrong, Lake Scugog (Port Perry) scores 77 (about 234 km from St. Thomas, roughly 6 m of water at its deepest). Grand River at 76 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.

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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