Proceeding upstream thru the Oak downstream frog water areas the reports are quieter but I suspect guys are into a decent skein bite. We are hearing of most guys getting their drifts down and slow getting a few hook ups in the fast water reaches below the dam and a little more action in the downstream flat water possibly as a result ofsome drop back brown trout action and a few fresher steelhead. info@orleanscountytourism.com No major chill down seen in the near term forecast and there is some rain or showers going over to snow showers forecast for Thursday and Friday. Most hook up chances will come from long and light float presentations at the dam. First week of Sep 2019 with lots more chances ahead. Anglers seeing and having hook up success on browns is encouraging we are likely on a trajectory to out pace last years brown trout action already. Fish. From Capt. Bob Songin of Reel Excitement Charters "At the Bar Recap 2021" video. Spin Doctor, Chrome, Crush UV, 2 face with an Atomic purple mirage behind it. Some days youll find the only active fish up in that warm water so dont be afraid to fish up high. Same for estuary slow water areas on the smaller tribs where guys have had on and off action. Another unseasonably warm day today with chance of showers tonight. 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. Flows in the Oak are about med and slightly stained with about 2 ft of viz. This position resides in the Biological & Environmental Systems Sciences, Energy Science & Technology . Our best set up was a 10 white double crush glow Spindoctor with A-TOM-MIK glow warship twinkie head. Last night at dusk I had no problem finding some Kings crashing and boiling around at the Bridges area on the Oak and even a few at Point Breeze. The Fall LOC Derby is in its final stretch this week, ending Sept. 5th. Anglers fishing from boats should be able to maintain at least six feet of distance between one another. Next chance at precipitation or showers is this weekend. Other area smaller tribs are at moderate to medium and slightly stained flows. Cool nights and cooperative winds should make for better battles with more staging Kings and trout chances as well. If anglers can get their drift thru the Kings, theres been some browns and steelhead hooked too. So for now, flows in the Oak have dropped back to low and clear. The youth division is free. Flies and egg imaginations have been the best baits for the salmon. Thats more typical of what we would have normally seen a month ago. So, flows, weather and fishing action are somewhat up and down. Those fish deserve a chance to immigrate back out to the Lake if caught and released back into the turbine channel. So for now the drifting and swinging conditions look pretty good. By admin septembrie 15, 2021 Articles. Chance of mixed bag precipitation and snow thru tomorrow and early Thursday. Sign up for our FREE Fishing Reports Today! Any big steelhead this time of the year in relatively warm water are going to be a challenge to land! In the Niagara River, there are some salmon still swimming around the lower river if you want to work for them, both from shore and from boat. 585-682-4546 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. But the gloom and the cool definitely conducive for fish migrations, guys remarking that fish were migrating yesterday. Then coupled with the mixed bag of Atlantics and steelhead and cohos, the hook up chances sound pretty good. For now after the past weekend it looks like flows are back down some in the Oak to about med or slightly high and less stained. All Rights Reserved. Aiden also won the Youth Division with that salmon. Wind has subsided and we are on the backside of 3/4 1 inch of rain. Both father and daughter were smiling away as they were side by side working the fish to the boat. Instead of the big gully washer of backside blown out conditions, it may be the backside of only slightly high flows that youll want to target after smaller runoff events from snowmelt. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. The rain is Lake Effect so as is often the case with snow most of it goes south of the area. Another shot of precipitation from a couple of days ago forecast ahead thru the mid week looks seasonable cool and mostly clear with a slight warm up toward the end of week. The fair action now is hopefully a good sign for action yet to come thru Feb/Mar. Flows will likely just open up minus any blow out, as long as there is no significant precipitation. The area received a few inches of wet snow and sleet thru the end of the past week. Other area smaller tribs have med flows and slightly stained water color something like 1 2 feet of visibility. Warmer temps here tempered some by cooling lake breezes. No serious icing yet and all the downstream frog water is open. Kings have for the most part given up the ghost and now some carcasses are seen seeding the waterway. Most noticeable drop will be the Oak since the Canal flows are also throttling back. Fished the 26-27 line, a little west but not far. Some Lake Effect Snow showers has amounted to a few more inches of fluffy accumulation on top of the 1-2 ft previous snow. Capt Ryan Bostain checked in with a report for the San Diego for their 3/4 day trip today down south, we ended the day with 103 Yellowtail for our efforts. Good water flows will be the biggest factor for trout and salmon migrations in the Oak Orchard River and in the area smaller tribs and pushing them upstream. Temps are on the mild side, dropping down some at night and thru today and over the next part of the week we are getting some melt off which should be good for maintenance. Bob! Meaning flows are back on a slow retreat now but water color prob wont be the dirtiest itll be until today or tomorrow. Year-Round Notice: There are mandatory personal flotation device (PFD) zones on the river. Fishing on the bays has been excellent. Either way, flows consist of a strong head of turbine water that could be close to full bore. To the west, theres not a lot of recent reports but flows should be more like moderate to medium and going toward clear. Light fishing pressure with just a few cars seen at the two access points. Fished pretty much 100- 250 feet of water. Click here to view Capt. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. We will be searching for a high quality (resolution) photograph in a few months to promote lake fishing in Orleans County. For best chances at steelhead action later this winter and spring we might hope for some more colder and typical winter weather for the in between later Dec/early Jan timeframe. At least its good to see organizers and attendees efforts at getting back to a normal pre-Covid scene. Good chance for some icing conditions coming on there. Look for flows maintained around the slightly high/slightly stained for now. jwplayer("jwp-outstream-unit").setup({}); Report is Courtesy of the Oswego County Department of Community Development, Tourism and Planning. 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. There were salmon porpoising around the green can and the red can. Evereything in the Oak remains open and fishable. Upstream action so far mainly for a few fish at the dam. The full moon that was maybe responsible for the uptick in migrations just recently is now on the wane. A decent pair of polarized glasses should reveal pods of fish holding around gravel spots. Bro-Weekend was a success for the Meyer family from Eastern PA and NJ (pictured below)! One angler for the beginning part of this week reported good action. Going SW or just by the nature of the LES bands having moved around, accumulations will be more in different nearby areas. This is after mostly tougher action reported for the begin part of the past weekend. Small and Largemouth Bass are also abundant, aggressive and eager to bend your rod. With the lake conditions ideal for offshore fishing, we headed out to the 27 line and trolled north. Production of hard copies is finished and have been delivered to License Issuing Agents. A great time was had by all and theyre looking forward to returning next year! All the trib flows look on the retreat from previous snowmelt and precipitation. Not surprising since it was a real gloomy overcast wet kind of day that you would expect good fish movement. Fishing pressure light and angler reports thin. See more info at www.loc.org/leaderboard-current. The Oak Orchard Harbor is in the process of being dredged which started last week (8/25) and is expected to finished mid September. 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. Then from there it was a slow but steady pick. Most all fish in real nice shape, some legit fresh Kings after the last rain which isnt always a sure thing in our area low gradient tribs. The team at Orleans County Tourism appreciates it as well as so many anglers we hear from. I for one am glad for some consistent winter weather to at least reset seasonal conditions after the mild fall. Hair jigs and worm harnesses fished off 3-way rigs is the way to go. 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. Sandy Creek is probably remaining stubbornly stained from that Canal drainage but definitely dropping back some. Nothing new about that for steelhead angling! If you want to help for salmon we can direct you to the contacts for that effort. They will be held out of Oak Orchard. One guy catches a fish, another guy quick runs the fish over to the turbine channel cradled in a net. No sore shoulders or headache now Erica will be forever casting for her trophy 4. Fishing pressure is real light with one or two guys reporting a few fresher looking steelhead hooked up. This is the available info at this time, fishing is allowed as in the past, unless something changes, it will be enforced. Archers Club. Early season Oak rivermouth action for a nice brace of med female Kings for the Licorice Man. No consistent cool down or big freshets yet so the action has been on and off. The NYS fish licensing system is back up! No major icing that we are aware of. Now for the mid week, its warmed up again! Flows in the Oak have retreated some to slightly high and slightly stained. The recent changing winds, lightning and storms are not good for fishing but things did become more stable. The other area smaller tribs have a fair amount of icing. (There will be no fees for the 2021 canal boating season.) Congratulations to the winner of the 2021 Summer LOC Derbys grand prize of $10,000, Michael Paddock from Albion who held the lead since July 13th with his 31 lb 7 oz salmon he caught aboard Aquarius. Certain days youll notice that salmon movement by seeing them crashing around, but as often as not that movement seems to go on quietly. Since then, the Douglaston Salmon Run has reported salmon entering the river on a consistent basis. We received 10,000 steelhead and 113,500 salmon from the DEC today as part of the Pen Rearing Project to keep the lake stocked. Slight bump up in trib flows yesterday from little bit of rain and snowmelt. Some big steelhead are still in the Oak! Forecast ahead thru the end of the weekend and into begin part of next week is a little warmer but still dropping back down below freezing at night. This weeks fishing report is from Capt. It looks like some of the weather we missed out on thru the earlier winter is coming now in the later winter. In early November and early December, all Lake Ontario tributaries (Eighteenmile, Johnson, Oak Orchard, Sandy and Salmon Creeks) will see higher flows. Spring will offer up only so many cold water chances! Check out the nice King recent catch pic above.. Seasonable temps for the end of week and chance for a quick significant warmup with rain again around the end of the upcoming weekend. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. Riggers were parked at 75 & 85 ft with fixed cheaters 10 ft above. Most action came on our Cannon Downriggers fished 30-50 down with sliders. Nice big fresh King drifting action on the backside of high flows from end of Sept rains. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. So for now the drifting and swinging conditions look pretty good. Here on the Oak look for low and clear flows with bank ice and the downstream slow water areas frozen. We finished the day with a few more fish and a memory to last forever. Another chance of precipitation for begin part of upcoming weekend although at this point the greater impact is forecasted south of the area. Mixed sizes today with a couple in the 10 lb range and a couple around 28 lbs, most were in the 15 to 18 lbs. Especially with the way the weather is proceeding. End of week there is the chance for mixed bag precipitation and Lake Effect Snow for the weekend. We fished 90-120 feet of water, just slightly east and west of port. Downstream spots on the Oak for the past weekend may have been tougher on what was dropping and clearing flows, although we did not hear from many guys. For moreinformation about the benefits of being outdoors safely and responsibly, go to DECs website. Fish for bass with Senko rigs. Mexico Bay has seen an invasion of salmon. Any significant precipitation or melt off or runoff could bring all the trib flows right back high and off color again. The next spate of water could bring in the fresh spring steelhead looking for warmer water. Stay tuned though for any future high water that could really perk things up. New for 2021: enter and weigh from your phone! Look for slowly dropping flows all around back to the baseline Canal and normal run of the river contributions. Hard copies can be requested by emailing FWFish@dec.ny.gov. While enjoying the outdoors, please continue to follow theCDC/New York State Department of Health guidelines(leaves DECs website) for preventing the spread of colds, flu, and COVID-19: When fishing, DEC recommends avoiding busy waters andfollowing the guidelines on DECs website about fishing responsibly in New York State. 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. After a quick hit of real cold weather this past weekend, we are back to mild temps that are forecast at least thru this week. Welcome August! 3 spinners to catch a fair number of smallmouth bass earlier this week. Those fish should be somewhere in the system and may be spread out now farther upstream. We are hearing of a few more browns now in the Oak, especially thru yesterday. Hike some different water spots on the smaller tribs and you should find some brown trout action with a steelhead or two thrown in. On Sept. 11 there will be a First Responders Fishing Day, sponsored by the Southtowns Walleye Association of WNY. Oak Orchard rivermouth King, second week Sep 2018. Some anglers are spread out like in the other tribs east and west. Hard copies can be requested by emailing FWFish@dec.ny.gov. New Fall Fishing Program. Good action reported, consistent from most anglers on the Oak thru the past end of weekend and yesterday. Concentrate on the faster shires and ruffles as they are more oxygenated. Everything is wide open to fish and its going to take a cold snap to get things iced back up again. No serious precipitation expected. Water color was stained with probably greater then a foot but less then 2 feet of viz. We had the pleasure of taking out an 81 year old father with his daughter (pictured left). The other area smaller tribs look mostly open again with mod to med flows and slightly stained water color. Only a sucker here and there reported. Bit of a stalemate in the weather for now with warmish days but below freezing nites. This Jan timeframe is historically a bit of an in-between time frame so any action is a bonus after the fall runs and before later winter/early spring steelhead. With cool water temperatures, rig depths of 30 to 80 ft down are getting Troutman 2 anglers kings coho and some whopper lake trout! Reports from the rest of the downstream water or other area smaller tribs are thin thanks to the light fishing pressure. Look for flows to stay up with the stained water color. No quick start to the salmon action yet. Otherwise fishing pressure elsewhere is real light. For more information call 888-733-5246 or visit their website at www.loc.org . Good casting chances for light/med spinning spoon or plug chuckers from the foot brigade. Even clear water finds the caster at an advantage over the troller. Looks like all the area trib flows are on the rise from recent showers and continued run off. Any snow will be likely south of the area. 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. No accumulations expected here on the WNY Lake Ontario Plain. Shoreline casting action Apr and May for hungry brown trout. Our best spoons were Geezer, UV Watermelon, Midnight Special, Wonderbread, and 42nd. The brown trout action in nearby tribs that was pretty good is a little slower lately thanks to the lower and clearer flows. Good luck, guys! Seasonable cold winter weather for the end of week with some LES happening south and west of here. Flows in the Oak still humming along at around slightly high and slightly stained. Capt. All the waterways are wide open to fish with no icing to worry about for now. West side state launch slated to open ASAP. Some guys reported a good push of browns yesterday on both the Oak and Sandy. Hook ups on some fresh fish are coming a little easier then the previous few weeks check out the latest catch pic below. Flows should stay up thanks to exceptional upstream supplies even as water color should continue to improve. He cites that the Salmon showed up earlier in the season due to a number of factors, including a warmer winter, less ice on Lake Erie and an earlier Spring. Those smaller tribs will drop and clear and warm up sooner then the Oak. There could be some fresh fish migrations in the rest of the downstream river course and the other area smaller tribs anytime now thru the spring on these high water events. Chance of rain showers hit and miss thru the end part of the week. Not sure yet how much of a change in flows in the Oak well see, but with the precip received so far it shouldnt be bad enough for a blow out. Boaters are asked to use the Oak Orchard State Marine Park on the WEST side of the River on Archbald Rd. Flows should be back on the retreat already today with some stain hanging on. Bald Eagle Tournament Series Bald Eagle Marina. When that fish hit the deck, big boy hit the 200 diver and headed for Niagara county. If youre reading this you should be at the right spot on our new fishing conditions page. To the east flows are also somewhat higher then typical fall flows with slightly stained water color. Flows in the Oak are still slightly high and water color has improved with 2 ft of visibility. Some rain showers and gloom and breezy conditions today (Tuesday). Canal water is a decent level. Id look for it going high and stained about thru this weekend. Capt. Seasonable cold is forecast to hang in at least thru the week and weekend. The other area smaller tribs have med or slightly high and stained flows. 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.