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Fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador

Click a region to explore top fishing spots, species, and local tips.

Newfoundland and Labrador offer some of North America's most remote and pristine fishing across a vast subarctic landscape. The island's Atlantic salmon rivers - the Humber, Gander, and Exploits - are world-renowned, while countless ponds and lakes produce trophy brook trout exceeding five pounds. Labrador's remote fly-in rivers like the Eagle, Kanairiktok, and Minipi offer extraordinary brook trout and Arctic char fishing in untouched wilderness, and the Grand Banks offshore provide world-class cod, halibut, and tuna fishing.

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Western Newfoundland

Humber River, Gros Morne, Grand Codroy, Corner Brook, Deer Lake -- Atlantic salmon, brook trout

Central Newfoundland

Exploits River, Gander River, Red Indian Lake, Grand Falls -- Atlantic salmon, brook trout, pike

Eastern Newfoundland (Avalon)

St. John's, Terra Nova, Salmonier River, Conception Bay -- Salmon, brook trout, cod

Southern Newfoundland

Burin Peninsula, Fortune Bay, Burgeo, Hermitage -- Sea-run brook trout, Atlantic salmon

Great Northern Peninsula

Torrent River, St. Anthony, Strait of Belle Isle, Viking Trail -- Salmon, sea trout, Arctic char

Labrador

Churchill River, Eagle River, Lake Melville, Goose Bay -- Arctic char, pike, lake trout, Atlantic salmon