Most Canadian residents need an Outdoors Card to fish in Ontario (between 18-65 years of age)
If you have never had an Outdoors Card, you can request an application form be mailed to you by phoning the Outdoors Card Centre at 1-800-387-7011 call centre (anywhere from Canada). The Outdoors card is good for 3 years.
If you are a Canadian resident between 18 and 65 years of age and you want to fish in Ontario right away, you can buy a a "Resident
Fishing Licence and Outdoors Card Application" from one of more than 2,000
licence issuers across the province. A temporary paper
licence is effective immediately and valid until December 31 of the year in which it was purchased. The fee for a temporary paper
licence includes the cost of a three-year Outdoors Card.
The outdoors card is not
fishing licence! A complete and valid
licence to fish consists of an Outdoors Card and a
fishing licence tag or E-
licence. (www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/LetsFish/2ColumnSubPage/STEL02_165322.html)
