Any future accumulating snow and melt may do that. The last few weeks out of Bald Eagle Marina we have been fishing offshore as there has been some good steelhead action with a few teenage kings in the mix. See you all next year! Temperatures have finally started dropping with cooler weather setting in. Lots of water cover has probably spread out the fish. The state is funding the effort as part of the Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative. I little color to the water at dawn and just after a pair of reasonably fresh males come to the net for the Licorice Man. Flows in Johnson Creek for sure up and even stained from a pretty good shot of water. There was another couple inches of wet snow and something like a 0.25 inch of rain thru last night. Thanks to Ernsts and NYSDEC and hatchery personnel and the receiving party getting the fish to this point. Water visibility was about 6-foot at the time. Forecast is for precipitation again Wednesday and a chance of showers thru the end of the week. Water color has improved to about 1 plus feet of viz. Water color is one foot of visibility or less. Try to anticipate dropping and clearing flows and be on the water when reasonable conditions come together! FREE boat launching until the Spring! Im hearing of a few hook ups each outing for most guys, and those anglers report putting in the time and working for the hook ups by covering different water with swings or dead drifts. Less noticeable will be in Sandy since Canal flows there are throttling up. The other area smaller tribs are prob going to try and open back up from previous icing with high and dirty flows. Any significant precipitation could raise all the trib flows back high and dirty. Most hook up chances will come from long and light float presentations at the dam. Not surprising since it was a real gloomy overcast wet kind of day that you would expect good fish movement. No accumulations expected here on the WNY Lake Ontario Plain. Avoid close contact, such as shaking hands, hugging, and kissing. Not a blow out but enough precipitation to bump everything up with a nice spate of water for some fresh fish migrations. Deep and slow drifts and swings are rewarded with hard fighting fresh steelhead. Sandy Creek has been the most consistent brown trout action so thats where most of the fishing pressure has been. Cormorant numbers, however, remain a significant challenge to all the Lake wide salmonid stocking efforts. As soon as the levels come down more trout will show up. To the east at Sandy Creek flows are reported to be medium or just a notch greater. They consulted with, At last! Blown flows typically come from the overflow channel. (There will be no fees for the 2021 canal boating season.) Stay tuned! It includes a county map with the designated public fishing access points and boat ramps, tackle & bait shops, marinas and popular fish species of Orleans County. Note to self after any kind of high water after stale conditions try more upstream then downstream. Fishing pressure is light all around and no significant icing conditions are hindering drifting chances. Suckers were more numerous too. Even though I wouldnt look for turbine flows to change much in the near term, once the water temps begin to rise even a little the drift chances should improve and more fresh fish will hopefully be evidenced all around. Flows will likely retreat in the overflow channel thru the mid and end part of the week while turbine flows remain high. The working mans big trout and salmon trip is still here, and its not even a contest compared to the other exotic, far off angling destinations. It will be held out of all NY harbors in Lake Erie from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. A fish fry and Picnic to follow at the Southtowns Walleye clubhouse located at 5895 Southwestern Blvd., Hamburg starting at 2 p.m. Canal water is a decent level. Stephen Shen of STS guide service says: The end of the annual salmon run is coming to an end in the upper salmon river. Any rainfall is really going to get things cranking and water color this time is likely to get dirty. Look for more fish going to gravel on the no doubt water temp warm up this week. Mid Mar 2022 Oak Orchard. Recent frontal winds and rain have several salmon spots set up. On the south end of Newark has been a great place for catching bass. A good WNW wind thru last night probably moved more fish near shore or into the tribs from Lake Ontario but dont look for those fish to loiter in estuary or rivermouth spots at this point in the season. Other area smaller tribs are dropping back toward low and clear and warming thru this week. info@orleanscountytourism.com When flows are reduced temporarily, it reveals pretty good numbers of fish. Now some silver browns hooked up too, as has been the case on the smaller tribs like to the east. The better reports I hear are from guys that have some Kings migrate past them or hold and they get some drifts to them. Look for the loitering downstream fish to continue to move up making for better upstream action. Weather and the calendar is the biggest factor for angling pressure and bringing more fishermen out or keeping them indoors. Real nice flows by steelhead standards. Same for estuary slow water areas on the smaller tribs where guys have had on and off action. Look for mod and mostly clear flows in the Oak and low and clear flows in the other area smaller waterways. Keep informed about 2021 canal hours. Today it was mostly sunny and 53. And, a big shout-out and congratulations to Crazy Yankee for winning this past weekends 2021 Niagara Pro Am! I for one am glad for some consistent winter weather to at least reset seasonal conditions after the mild fall. Slightly high and stained flows make for good drifting chances after all the high and dirty. Early Sep 2017. And along with the browns theres the chance for Atlantics, cohos or steelhead rounding out nice mixed bag chances. Flows in the Oak are high, close to blown and dirty. Chance of only rain showers with temps approaching 50F+ on select days. Flows in the Oak are high and stained with about 1 foot of visibility. Water color has that swamp headwater tannic stain to it. One guy catches a fish, another guy quick runs the fish over to the turbine channel cradled in a net. New Fall Fishing Program. Over all though, the brown trout action on the Oak is tough. Other area smaller tribs should be retreating toward medium or lower to moderate and slightly stained. Through Operation Injured Soldiers, Captains Mike Grager, Mike Lavender and Bob Eder took 12 wounded veterans fishing and enjoyed 2 days on Lake Ontario. The rest of the Oak, like after the confluence, were high water fishable by at least this past Sunday thru about yesterday as the overflow levels diminished. In the Steelhead Division, Karen Mang of East Concord, NY is top fish catcher with a 16-pound, 12-ounce Olcott fish. Eggs, egg sacs and beads are working to take salmon, brown trout and the occasional steelhead. I have been fishing my clients from 50-150 ft. After the extremely high water we have had the last two weeks it is finally receded enough to produce safer wading conditions. Thanks to all who helped including NYSDEC, Ernsts Lake Breeze Marina, feeding/cleaning volunteers, Seth Green Chapter TU, Orleans County Tourism and yours truly spearheading efforts. For more information, visit our website at visitoswegocounty.com and click on the Fishing Report along the top bar on the home page. November 1, 2021Thanks for checking out the fishing video today. Fishing and weather conditions pretty nice by late fall/early winter standards. Even the Oak thanks to starting out so low at the onset of the cold weather at the start of the past weekend, is mostly frozen. No doubt a lot of King action came and went on the previous higher and off color flows. And then theres always that concentration of fish and people at the dam. Warm weather forecasted to prevail all week and warmer yet for the upcoming weekend around 70F. Bob features a weekly (and sometimes more frequent) video on his Facebook page to share his fishing report. Captain Mikes recommendation is using mainly a flasher fly bite yellow flashers, blue green flies. Our Cannon Downriggers parked at 30 & 40 with spoons back 30 were our hottest setups. ran out of Olcott to fish with his dad aboard the Stalker with Capt. Bob Songin of Reel Excitement Charters reports that fishing is still tough and sporadic. For now it doesnt look like a big snow event. Land lubber casters or small boat trollers or canoe/kayakers can all get in on hard striking action for mostly browns with occasional steelhead or salmon or smallmouths in the mix too. Oak Orchard Fishing Report, friendly post to help your fellow fisherman. No obvious staged up concentration of staged up fish like at the Bridges. The Oswego Fire Department offers loaner life jackets at no charge through its Loaner for Life program. Either way waiting for the mythical lower and clearer conditions for steelhead action may lead to lost chances. Forecast is for rain ending later today and a couple days of clearing for mid week. First week of Sep 2019 with lots more chances ahead. Looks like a good head of turbine water with overflow levels diminished. Less then 1 inch of snow accumulations are expected here on the WNYs Lake Ontario Plain. Stay tuned and keep tabs on the weather and water flows and get out there when you can. View his full report, From at the Oak to the Bar at https://www.facebook.com/robert.songin.9/videos/412662933560159. It looks like a real good head of turbine water with no significant overflow water. No doubt as flows drop and clear even a little guys should get onto more fish, especially brown trout. 3 spinners to catch a fair number of smallmouth bass earlier this week. One note: the spiny water flea bloom is in progress so rig your rods with 30-50# mono on riggers and be prepared to check rods often. We are surely going to have water for high and off color flows when the weather breaks toward spring. Look for post spawn browns to be redistributed thru the waterways and the chance for some fresher steelhead. With these colder temps the fish are reasonably hardy, they wont be later on. Get the drift or swing down and checked and slowed a bit and you can find a head shaking steelhead on the take. The expectations were high as the last trip out we had a good number of silver fish. Keep informed from the NYS Canal web for changes and restrictions with canal waters. They started in 60 feet of water trolling northwest with cut bait and the reel started screaming. Thank you to the DEC, the volunteers and especially Ernsts Lake Breeze Marina for the use of their boat slips/docks this Spring. Chance of rain showers thru the mid week on warming temps and an expected area-wide accumulating snow end of week on cooling temps. We look forward to another 20 years as WNYs longest running trout and salmon speciality fly, spin and float trib shop! Spawning fish like this can be found in the gravel runs if you choose to target them or else find the real action in adjacent holes for the staged or drop back fish. Register now and see your name at the top of the list, CDC/New York State Department of Health guidelines, following the guidelines on DECs website about fishing responsibly in New York State, information about the benefits of being outdoors safely and responsibly. The state is funding the effort as part of the Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative. The smaller side channels and Trout and Orwell brook all have fish; which are providing the most action at this time. Production of hard copies is finished and have been delivered to License Issuing Agents. Fish for bass with Senko rigs. The morning started out great but Lady O offered up some serious chop by noon. There were salmon porpoising around the green can and the red can. Here in the Oak Orchard neighborhood theres something like 18+ inches of a medium dense snow so therell be a good supply of runoff flows when it melts. Click here for the Brookfield Varick Fish Safely brochure. Likely there are some steelhead in the Oak now and the drift conditions remain challenging to get on them. Brown trout reports still about 50% good/50% slow. Bob Songin of Reel Excitement Charters "At the Bar Recap 2021" video. Flows in the Oak have retreated some to slightly high and slightly stained. Remember you still have to get out and fish Come experience great fishing as it takes place instead of solely relying and waiting on internet reports. Not big numbers of steelhead but a few that likely came in on the previous higher flows we had and are a good portent to upcoming steelhead action in the more traditional February or March timeframe. No major icing that we are aware of. Flows in the Oak were higher yesterday but expecting that to retreat again toward medium and slightly stained. After a few decent runs, the fish was starting to cooperate That was until it got to the back of the boat. A fair number of Kings are loitering in downstream areas on the Oak with skein drifters still into them up at least until yesterday. The following report is courtesy of Capt. Ernie Calandrelli has been slapping the eyes with harnesses. Small boat civilian trollers can now launch at the open NYS launch on the west side of the rivermouth! So far a nice start to the action, forecast looking mostly dry and seasonably cool right thru the upcoming weekend. Good action reported, consistent from most anglers on the Oak thru the past end of weekend and yesterday. So when even a reasonable high and stained water window presents itself, that may be the best time to fish. For now temps are in the high 30s F and falling short of the predicted near 50 F. Look for all the trib flows to be on the rise and going off color. Jeremy Sage from, Warrior Lures Sport Fishing Products Traxstech Corporation. Reports of good King and some trout action at Burt 18 Mile Creek. Thankful for that continued Erie Canal water feed for select tribs as the forecasted precipitation at this time not likely to cause a big change in trib flows. Well probably continue to see a drawn out salmon run. Theres not a lot of fish spawning or even many zombies yet so that tells you things are progressing slowly. Fishing pressure, no doubt, is light though. I would doubt we are heading toward any kind of blow out, but a little stain to the water would sure be a good thing too. Try to keep at least six (6) feet of distance between you and others. Saturday afternoon we fished 150-200 in water a few miles west of Port. So if youre following this the moral of the story is that the weather is up and down and therefore so are the water levels and fishable conditions. Check out current standings at https://loc.org/leaderboard-current. We are generally most confident in our Oak interpretations, less so in the other area smaller tribs. Lower Niagara River action picked up a tick or two this week for bass and walleye according to Lisa Drabczyk with Creek Road Bait and Tackle in Lewiston. Hook ups on some fresh fish are coming a little easier then the previous few weeks check out the latest catch pic below. On the dates not included above anglers can still fish any of the water adjacent to the Archers Club but access will have to be by walking and wading from downstream at the Park Ave Ext Fishing Trail or from upstream at the Waterport dam and anglers cannot be on the Archers Club grounds only in the immediate bankside water. Still lots of water in the Oak at slightly high and slightly stained with about 2 ft of visibility. If those times won't work for you, 12:00AM to 12:00AM looks promising , as does 12:00AM to 12:00AM Remember to adjust these times based on barometric pressure, and weather changes. Just prior to the lowering of flows, guys reported steelhead hook ups at the dam and overflow pools and scattered downstream thru the fast water gravel stretches for spawning fish. For now that is, until any more bigger rains or snows may come. It looks like some of the weather we missed out on thru the earlier winter is coming now in the later winter. Still hanging on to warm (hot) weather but theres a change afoot in the forecast with chance of significant rain mid week and a cool down. Its all about water flows Water flows are the single biggest factor in encouraging upstream movements of fish during the fall, winter and spring trib seasons. Not sure if we are even going to see the typical influx of trout guys those crowds are already tardy not unlike the trout and salmon migrations. Any future precipitation could raise flows and bring back dirty water color. Upcoming weekend warm up should keep things open and we might be looking at some more serious icing and retreating flows after that for next week. If you want to help for salmon we can direct you to the contacts for that effort. Fishing out deep has been hit and miss and no real pattern of lures to speak of. Some reports of stained water color to the east which could be a result of Canal drainage. Any significant rainfall could raise flows up more with dirtier water color. This is kind of a reset (at least when it warms back up) and with a return to some more inviting flows and stained water there should be new migrations of spring fish. Colder temps could bring back some icing conditions esp in the smaller waterways if lower flows prevail. No parking will be allowed at anytime on the road at the top of the driveway and therefore no walk in access down the driveway. Darker and some old moldy salmon are still around. Some forecasted showers that for once turned into more like rainstorms yesterday and today have brought along that nice gloom for fish migrations, but probably will not change any trib flows much. All the trib flows are on the rise and going off color. A couple of days of cold weather earlier this week probably hastened the retreating flows. So we are still in this mostly mild winter pattern. A couple anglers reported when flows came down thanks to turbine rack cleaning it revealed strong numbers of browns and some steelhead nearer the dam, even if they hadnt been good biters prior. Light fishing pressure with just a few cars seen at the two access points. Get the monthly weather forecast for Dsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, including daily high/low, historical averages, to help you plan ahead. Rainfall could amount to 0.5 inch or more. . They fished a little west of port between the 27-29 lines of latitude. Peach of a day today and it looks like guys are more seriously getting out there this week. Spoon grabbing fun hard fighters with a dark skein wagon thrown in too for mid/end Sept 2021 at the Oak Orchard Rivermouth. Many thanks to the Archers Club for opening up the Fall fishing access. Even clear water finds the caster at an advantage over the troller. Here is a terrific morning catch of Oak Orchard River-bound king salmon from 21-26# from 110 ft of Lake Ontario ledge water. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. No serious icing yet and all the downstream frog water is open. jwplayer("jwp-outstream-unit").setup({}); Report is Courtesy of the Oswego County Department of Community Development, Tourism and Planning. The canal season for navigation ended October 13th and some sections are being lowered. Considering that January is usually a bit of an in-between time frame after the fall salmon/brown trout action and before spring steelhead, the few guys out taking advantage of the weather and flows are doing pretty good. Spoons are UV Mags, green. Any significant precipitation could bring flows quickly back up and off color. Weather is seasonable warm today and then forecast winter cold with wind for tomorrow and weekend. Fish are still spawning in the typical areas on or near gravel. Next chance at snow for area wide is for the beginning part of next week. Flows will likely just open up minus any blow out, as long as there is no significant precipitation. Everything is wide open to fish and its going to take a cold snap to get things iced back up again. Check out loc.org. Lots of optimism for trib season chances ahead on good returns from the steelhead pen rearing renewed project since 2019. Now quietly too a few guys are reporting better action. Wind has subsided and we are on the backside of 3/4 1 inch of rain. Guys may wind up on the Oak after finding icing conditions otherwise. Tough time of the year for any serious drying out since everything will wind up essentially as runoff. See more info at www.loc.org/leaderboard-current. Stay tuned though for any future high water that could really perk things up. Fishing pressure real light with only a handful of guys out on the Oak in the mid week period. Where I looked anyway it looks like most if not all the icing is gone away, so not expecting any significant upstream fast water sections to be iced in. Water temps had bumped up into the 40sF and the ice on Lake Alice is gone. Chance of rain and colder temps and windy conditions for the end of the week but back to relatively mild temps again by the weekend.
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