Fishing pressure is moderate right now and generally guys are moving around offering chances to fish different spots between the swingers and the drifters be it fly, float or spin. Come get in on some hard striking fresh fish action at the river mouth and downstream areas. Other area smaller tribs are dropping back like the Oak to low but may be hanging on to a little more color. Downstream slow water areas will be freezing and closing in while upstream areas should stay open except for some bank ice. There was a little bit of snow showers too that is melting off today. Port Bay still has perch fishing along the north end of the bay. Forecast is for slowly warming up thru this week with chance of rain/snow showers mid week and precipitation again for end of week. The best spinner/fly set up is DW Gator Flasher Spindoctor with an A-TOM-IK BAM fly. The other area smaller tribs are prob going to try and open back up from previous icing with high and dirty flows. Flows in the Oak are still slightly high and water color has improved with 2 ft of visibility. A great time was had by all and theyre looking forward to returning next year! #2 of 53 B&Bs / Inns in Dsseldorf. Spoon grabbing fun hard fighters with a dark skein wagon thrown in too for mid/end Sept 2021 at the Oak Orchard Rivermouth. Releases may change due to weather and other conditions. Hopefully the fishing pressure overall is likewise spread out like the fish. That may well all blow out after this latest round of precipitation. The fish are going to turn on and off there so persistence is the name of the game and long and light presentations. More of the up and down temps that weve been experiencing so far this winter. Flows in the Oak are high and stained with about one foot of visibility. When high flows drop and/or cold flows warm and/or dirty water clears then anglers who can make good drifts or swings get in on the action. King salmon are scheduled for release today, that effort under the directive of the local charter community. Icing conditions should accelerate especially in the smaller waterways Will know more about how anglers have been hooking up as we catch back up on the fishing chatter. Nice big fresh King drifting action on the backside of high flows from end of Sept rains. Capt. Not bad drifting conditions, esp in the smaller waterways. No icing, even in the downstream frog water just yet. Remember as these kings start to stage that their preferred water temps are also changing. Sep 2022 - Present7 months. The picture of the week is from Catchn Hell Charters with a happy group of anglers from NJ on their annual trip to the Oak. That amount of rain would definitely be a good thing. Hard copies can be requested by emailing FWFish@dec.ny.gov. Anglers cannot be on the Archers Club grounds only in the immediate bankside water. The imagery will change every 6 months to promote the upcoming fishing season. Cormorant numbers, however, remain a significant challenge to all the Lake wide salmonid stocking efforts. This weeks fishing report was provided by, This weeks Lake fishing report is from Capt. Centrally located along the southern shore of Lake Ontario between Rochester and Niagara Falls in the town of Carlton, Oak Orchard Tackle & Lodge offers quality fly fishing equipment, conventional tributary drift tackle, float fishing gear and shoreline casting tackle. If any Canal winter time drainage is passing thru it must be tempered like Canal managers said they would do. And we predict even more mixed-up conditions for the next few days. Chance of maybe an ever so slight bump up and back down quick with a little more color to the water. If an angler is fishing upstream, they should fish downstream of the other angler or consider fishing another day. Check out current standings at https://loc.org/leaderboard-current. Water color was stained with probably greater then a foot but less then 2 feet of viz. Stay informed with the below web page. Keep informed about 2021 canal hours. 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. Good chance for some icing conditions coming on there. Depending on your perspective some might call it only slightly high. After a few decent runs, the fish was starting to cooperate That was until it got to the back of the boat. Furlough was just long enough for a few casts! The LOC started Friday and runs until September 6thLabor Day. With the lake conditions ideal for offshore fishing, we headed out to the 27 line and trolled north. Anglers at the dam are getting their steelhead hook ups, including a few nice fish. Savvy trib anglers anticipate good hook-up chances on the backside of high flows when reasonable weather and water conditions coincide! Anchor where the current isnt strong and cast out shrimp. Oak Orchard River begin Sept 2020. Since we are not getting cold temps and/or snow, hopefully we can get rain along with the warm temps to help maintain flows. What does the Oak Orchard River, the Lakeshore and other WNY tribs offer? Mexico Bay has seen an invasion of salmon. For now that is, until any more bigger rains or snows may come. Must be the the cool Bauer and GLoomis spey gear that made it happen for Chuck the Swinger end of Apr 2021! The current leader is a 32 lb 4 oz salmon caught by Zane Smith of New Brighton, PA. And along with the browns theres the chance for Atlantics, cohos or steelhead rounding out nice mixed bag chances. The last shot of rain was Sunday and theres been some cooler weather for the beginning part of this week. Look for drop back fish to be living there for now, with the other most productive spots being right at the dam or overflow channel pool. Theres a change afoot soon with the forecast ahead for the end of week and weekend going colder with a chance of mixed bag precipitation. There was some water level fluctuations yesterday thanks to hydropower operations and when the water was down briefly a fair amount of fish were seen in the upstream areas. Thru this beginning part of the week, most hook up action has still been mostly for Kings. The 2021 New York State fishing guide can be found at https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/7917.html for downloading and printing at home. Look for Kings steaming thru the downstream fast water to the dam, from the frog water areas thru the fast water, from the lower river to the frogwater, and from the near shore big Lake O waters to the rivermouth/lower river. Sacs are working for trout and skein is the ticket for salmon. Not surprising since it was a real gloomy overcast wet kind of day that you would expect good fish movement. October 15, 2020 / in Fishing, Press Releases / by lmenz. She bought him the trip to repay him for taking her fishing when she was young. Definitely on the moderate side of medium and not on the slightly high side of medium. LOC Fall Salmon Derby Aug 20th September 6th Look for angling pressure to build likely toward this weekend. Stay tuned, potential for lots of good action ahead when we get some consistent cooler weather and good water flows. So for now the drifting and swinging conditions look pretty good. Spoons are UV Mags, green. No real change yet seen in Oak upstream headwater flows but shortly Canal water will run out and Id be looking for some kind of continued lowering flows by end of week or weekend that is without any new significant precipitation for runoff. A good head of turbine water lending fishy water and cover for fish to be anywhere in the water course they would want to be. Flow conditions right now are more like nice steelhead water and higher then typical fall flows. Today it was mostly sunny and 53. See you on the water! Expect mod to med, but just less then med mostly clear flows in the Oak. The better reports I hear are from guys that have some Kings migrate past them or hold and they get some drifts to them. The next significant rise in flows may bring on some fresh steelhead action thru Mar. Moonshine Carbon 14 was our best today on a 70 rigger, and green Bam!! Increased flow releases on Eighteenmile Creek (Niagara County), Oak Orchard Creek (Orleans County), and Sandy Creek (Monroe and Orleans counties). Rick Hajecki from Crazy Yankee Sportfishingreminds boaters to Not be a fool in the fog and use your radar as they almost had an incident last week while fishing. No surprise, youd have to think we would pay for all that previous warm weather sometime. Canal water is a decent level. 3 spinners to catch a fair number of smallmouth bass earlier this week. At the release time and thru the following early AM cormorant predation was largely kept in check. For now in the near term low and clear flows are not in the cards. Reports of lowering flows in Johnson Creek and we are unsure why? Look for flows to stay similar since the Canal feed is scheduled to continue thru the first part of Dec.Any significant precipitation could cause flows to go higher. Temps forecast today in the 40sF and a little bit cooler tomorrow with a chance of rain/snow showers later Wednesday. The weather she is a changing again as has been the case for most of this trib season. Last week, on good flows, there was good action, then tougher again thru the past weekend on higher flows and now this week before another potential rise in flows there are a few more guys out there getting scattered hook ups. If youre reading this you should be at the right spot on our new fishing conditions page. 2021. Licorice Man. Flows in the Oak are responding nicely to a few days of previous cold with dropping and clearing. Seasonable cold winter weather for the end of week with some LES happening south and west of here. Hair jigs and worm harnesses fished off 3-way rigs is the way to go. Here on the Niagara Frontier, it was heaviest and there are lesser accumulations south of here. The other area smaller waterways are about mod with water color of about 2+ ft of viz. Fishing pressure is light all around and no significant icing conditions are hindering drifting chances. (Deadline for the Open was Monday, 6/7). There seems to be a stalemate between the open Lake temps and the trib water temps thanks to the relatively mild winter. The Greater Niagara Fish Odyssey is underway in Erie, Niagara and Orleans County August 20 until September 5, 2021. TheNYS Canal Corporationreleases water from the Erie Canal into Lake Ontario Tributaries in Western New York for an extended period each fall to create a longer season and even better angling experience. The release to that point was a great success! As we hit 515 FOW the 85 rigger fires with a Warrior Lures Blue Jeans (on the 10 ft cheater). But in all likelihood the greater accumulations will be SW of here with the chance that the WNY Niagara Frontier may not get all that much. The current leader is a 32 lb 4 oz salmon caught by Zane Smith of New Brighton, PA. Water temps on Port Bay are in the high 70s and autumn is the time fish start gobbling food. Same for estuary slow water areas on the smaller tribs where guys have had on and off action. Available at Oak Orchard Tackle & Lodge and Narbys. On recon today I saw only a few guys parked at the dam. First time fishing on Lake Ontario, Meagan Hardner caught this lake trout on spoons trolled within 10 feet of the bottom, in 50-60 feet of water straight out of Oak Orchard. Proceeding upstream thru the Oak downstream frog water areas the reports are quieter but I suspect guys are into a decent skein bite. More green or fresher fish still being encountered then zombies. Back to some winter like weather and temps for now. Look for better rivermouth and lower river action each day on cool or wet weather. Reasonable fishing pressure with fair to good numbers of Kings spread from near shore big Lake O waters to upstream fast water spots, in some cases right past anglers not there yet to intercept with a drift. For now the drifting conditions are pretty nice all around. 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. Well see how long any cold weather may last (theres been no prolonged cold spell yet) and whether this is the stretch of weather we might have typically seen in January. On the Oak thru the so far not too dirty turbine flows of today, guys have been scoring some fresher steelhead mostly nearer the dam. The fishing has been challenging not least due to the warm weather we had last week. At the Waterport Dam, its reported there are just a few fish and likely none holding in downstream fast water runs or holes. Fishing Report Orleans County Tourism | Hot Press Releases For now on the Oak anglers seem to be hooking up on a few steelhead nearest the dam that came along with the higher flows of a few weeks ago mixed in with a handful of fresh fish trickling in thru the downstream fast water. At least whatever trib and near shore Lake Ontario trout action that is underway is not likely to experience a temp spike anytime soon. To the east at Sandy Creek flows are reported to be medium or just a notch greater. If you stayed patient and made some drifts or swings when the good flows returned by mid Apr you could be rewarded with a hungry drop back steelhead. Good looking nice active fish all around. We dropped our port rigger down and within 5 minutes we hooked up on a 18 lb king. Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report - October 21, 2021 Herring Twinkie Fly rigs fooled some big uns! The other area smaller waterways trending slowly falling flows at around mod and slightly stained. Otherwise its a little tough to report on average fishing conditions. Salmon are stacked up in Olcott Harbor and spinners are working for shore casters. Thats on the ground now and will make for the next spate of water when that melts. Capt. 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. The northeast coastal weather put a damper on show attendance and the vendors participating were down some thanks to Covid worry but the anglers who did visit the show had good interest in all of the Lake Ontario trout and salmon fishing opportunities. Your email address will not be published. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. They started in 60 feet of water trolling northwest with cut bait and the reel started screaming. Copyright 2023 On The Water, LLC. Still on the cool and breezy side today with another brief warm-up forecast over the next couple days. Stay tuned tho for any future high water that could really perk things up. Flows for now are slightly high or maybe one click less consisting of all turbine water at 2+ feet of visibility. Theres a chance of snow showers tomorrow (Wed.) and precipitation at the end of week again. Chance of only rain showers with temps approaching 50F+ on select days. Without access back to Lake Ontario, those overflow fish are likely goners unless theres a perfectly timed spate of water later this spring. Very good. Fishing pressure is real light again on the Oak so far today. We had the pleasure of taking out an 81 year old father with his daughter (pictured left). Your email address will not be published. Forecast is for a warmup with temps around 50F (and wind) for the mid week and chance of rain on Thursday. ran out of Olcott to fish with his dad aboard the Stalker with Capt. This latest rain has come uncharacteristically from the east so to the west may be in slightly better shape then to the east. In the Oak, flows are moderate and mostly clear and likewise may hold onto those fair moderate flows instead of dropping back to real low. The lower flows will concentrate the available fish in a few good lies or gravel spots. Stay tuned and keep tabs on the weather and water flows and get out there when you can. Labor Day is when the big Lake Ontario Counties Fall Trout and Salmon Derby will be ending at 1 p.m. Seems like the Kings just arent concentrated in any particular fast water spot in any trib and thats the tougher reports I hear from guys. A few Kings now are in a spawning mode and likely with the next consistent cool down, therell be a whole lot more. This site uses cookies. And maybe into the early spring! 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. Flows in the Oak are medium and mostly clear. The other area smaller waterways offer as good or better action by virtue of smaller water courses with the fish probably more concentrated. held this past weekend. The Lake Ontario Counties spring trout and salmon derby is approaching its final weekend and a new $15,000 Grand Prize leader has emerged this week as Ken Champagne of Ohio caught a 25-pound, 8-ounce Niagara Bar king salmon on a flasher-fly, besting Jeff Smith of New Brighton, Pa. who had taken the early lead on the first day of the contest May 7. The other area smaller tribs have slightly high flows with stained visibility of about 1 foot. Then coupled with the mixed bag of Atlantics and steelhead and cohos, the hook up chances sound pretty good. Forecast is for continued seasonable weather thru the week with highs around 50F and dropping back into the 30sF at night. Mild winters or short duration cold weather lasting into spring is generally considered good for alewife survival, and hopefully a so far mild winter will bode well for alewife. Hopefully the fishing pressure overall is likewise spread out like the fish. When flows are reduced temporarily, it reveals pretty good numbers of fish. For information on fishing Great Lakes tributaries, visit the DEC website. The state is funding the effort as part of the Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative. Point Breeze/Orleans County/east side boat launch is still closed while construction is hopefully soon to wrap up. (function(){var ml="k0of4rsdc%ainhm. View the calendar of releases at this link:CanalsNY Fall Fishing Program. This weekend there is a scheduled white-water release, that plus the cooler temperatures should attract a better push. A weak cold front coming through today will change water tempshopefully creating a better bite. See the photo below.