Walleye fishing near Cambridge, ON

740 documented waters within 300 km, 219 of them with walleye as the primary species.

Where they are biting today

Fishing walleye around Cambridge

The waters around Cambridge give walleye anglers real options: 740 documented waters in range are on record for walleye 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 Ruisseau Calumet, today's top scorer at 80 (about 387 km from Cambridge, roughly 58 m of water at its deepest). If it is busy or the wind is wrong, Ruisseau Gillies scores 79 (about 406 km from Cambridge). Big Caribou Lake (Britt) at 79 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.

Walleye have large, light-sensitive eyes that give them sharp low-light vision - the same trait behind their name (that eerie eye-shine) also explains why they feed most actively at dawn, dusk, and after dark, retreating to deeper, darker water on bright days. Early-season Ontario walleye hold near their spawning rivers and on windswept boulder or coarse-gravel shoals, sliding out to deeper weed lines, drop-offs and channel edges as summer builds. The jig-and-minnow worked near bottom is the default Ontario presentation - vertical jigging in clear water by day, with crankbaits and spinners over shallow structure once the light drops. Across much of Ontario the walleye season closes for the spawn in mid-March and reopens on the third Saturday of May - the traditional May opener - though dates differ by zone.

Treat this page as a living shortlist: the ranking refreshes daily (currently showing September 15, 2026), and a shift in wind, cloud cover or water temperature is often enough to reorder it.

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