It is equipped with the latest electronics and fishing equipment. The hope is this cold weather will be a good thing for later winter and spring steelhead action. Year-Round Notice: There are mandatory personal flotation device (PFD) zones on the river. The other area smaller tribs have similar moderate medium flows with slightly stained water color. Thru the past weekend we heard of guys getting steelhead hookups nearer the dam including a few good fish. The derby runs until Sept 6 and the awards ceremony held at Captain Jacks in Sodus Point (arrive by 3 PM). The steelhead were strong and vigorous and silver so hopefully indicating good health and smolting. Other area smaller tribs are dropping back toward low and clear and warming thru this week. We are catching fish in 50-110 water in front of the major rivers and off 9-mile point. If theres steelhead in the Oak then more then likely theres a few slinking up those smaller waterways too. As we hit 515 FOW the 85 rigger fires with a Warrior Lures Blue Jeans (on the 10 ft cheater). Temps for the weekend are forecast to rebound back into the 40s F. Water flows are def enough to encourage some fresh fish migrations at any time and the water color now is in a sweet spot for good presentations. The state is funding the effort as part of the Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative. Forecast is for a warmup with temps around 50F (and wind) for the mid week and chance of rain on Thursday. There could be fresh steelhead, fresh silver browns or drop back fish. Lots of snow across WNY from an area wide snow. On the backside now of higher flows from about a week ago something like med to slightly high flows in the Oak and med in the smaller area waterways. Flows in the other area smaller waterways are high and dirty. Flows in the Oak are staying high with some stubborn overflow water that should be receding by about today leaving just the full cranking turbine flows. Another warmup is forecast thru the mid week with highs in the 40sF and another chance at rain Thursday. High flows can limit the movement of fish, and lower flows can restrict them. Rain today so far around one half to three qtrs of an inch. Thanks to Ernsts and NYSDEC and hatchery personnel and the receiving party getting the fish to this point. Oak Orchard River begin Sept 2020. Good casting chances for light/med spinning spoon or plug chuckers from the foot brigade. Lake Erie Steelhead: 2021 Fall Fishing Forecast As quickly as flows were restored in the Oak over the past weekend the fishing likewise perked up again with some steelhead hooked and a few knarly Kings clinging to a hopeful life. Heres a link to the report. The best spinner/fly set up is DW Gator Flasher Spindoctor with an A-TOM-IK BAM fly. Look for a good water flow window possibly in the Genny while the Niagara remains a tough pill thanks to a windy open Lake Erie. Most hook up chances will come from long and light float presentations at the dam. Fishing report: Weather to negatively impact all fishing opportunities starting Thursday The roller coaster weather ride is continuing to affect area fishing. So, flows, weather and fishing action are somewhat up and down. This entices more brown trout and steelhead to enter and remain in these waterways, improving fish spawning conditions and expanding angling opportunities. The large catfish are biting in Clyde and Palmyra. October 15, 2020 / in Fishing, Press Releases / by lmenz. Read slightly high and slightly stained with lots of good water cover for steelhead to be anywhere they want to be in the watercourses and good drifting chances. Theres a lot more lake fishing for the next 2 months so contact a charter and schedule a trip of your lifetime! Mixed bag chances for lakers, browns, steelhead in the River or on the Niagara bar rivermouth. Breakfast will be offered for a $10 donation. We ended the day with a few silver fish and a bunch of lake trout. The Pic of the Week was taken just this morning, June 8, 2021 fromMike Grager, Get Hooked Sportfishing. So far we are prob looking at some fish from earlier higher water and new fish trickling in on medium-ish flows instead of one bigger batch of fish on a blow out event. The salmon are scattered and after the marks are found, they are not hitting easily. Nice big fresh King drifting action on the backside of high flows from end of Sept rains. Fast water spots on the Oak remain open with just some bank ice. Over all though, the brown trout action on the Oak is tough. The Greater Niagara Fish Odyssey is underway in Erie, Niagara and Orleans County August 20 until September 5, 2021. Intrepid anglers are capable of catching fish on the Oak in all of these flows, except for maybe blown AND dirty. Consistently doubles & triples all throughout the area, in 7-10 FOW, then followed along the green water (as opposed to the murky brown water). Anglers at the dam are getting their steelhead hook ups, including a few nice fish. Water is moss green color, with 6-7 feet of visibility. 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. Stream Conditions - Fish Oak Orchard Fishing Updates Click to subscribe to Orleans County's Weekly Fishing Report (written by Ron) weekend Sat Feb 25. In shore warm water but it didnt stop hard strikes at dawn not much left in the fight afterwards. Fish. Trout and salmon rely on alewife in particular in the open Lake waters of Lake Ontario. Be there to intercept them! Orleans County has the total package and the Big Fish! The Port Bay pier (small) is at the end of West Port Bay Road and the Sodus Bay pier (long) are places to cast out heavy spoons. 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. He captured the lead today aboard the Stalker, weighing in at Olcott. The other area smaller tribs have slightly high flows with stained visibility of about 1 foot. Oak rivermouth dredging operations are likely days away from finishing. Definitely on the moderate side of medium and not on the slightly high side of medium. There were a few Monday morning oh-dark thirty hook-ups at the Oak Orchard Rivermouth. Try trolling straight out from Sodus Bay west to Ontario searching for kings down 50 over 150 fow. Click on the image above to subscribe to our weekly fishing reports. NOAAs Zone Area Forecast for Orleans County, Marine Forecast: Niagara River to Hamlin Beach, Archers Club Update (9/4/21) for 2021 Fall Stream Fishing, The Archers Club will be open for parking 7 days/week beginning Oct 01 until Nov 11. But with cooler temps this week, the water temp has finally started dropping. Hearing of legit salmon bites and even a few browns too in fast water areas on the Oak. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. Hard copies can be requested by emailing FWFish@dec.ny.gov. They scored 4 king salmon (17-20 lbs) and a trophy sized steelhead weighing in at 16 lbs. Id say Im hearing about 50/50 in good/tough fishing. The chance to fish from your own two feet for trout and salmon you measure in pounds, not inches, for 7 9 months depending upon weather and water conditions. On select evenings, Ive seen a few fish crashing too like at the Bridges. Slightly high and stained flows make for good drifting chances after all the high and dirty. Read more on the Hub. Team Screamer (pictured below) won the PRO division with a score of 447.19 and Team Roll With It won the Amateur division with 257.77 points (also pictured below). Thanks to this forecast, flows in the Oak and other area smaller tribs will be (again) on the way to high, blown and dirty. 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. Despite the cold, a few diehards have been out there scoring on a some smaller browns and a few fine looking chrome steelhead. The presentation is not that technical, just look for favorable winds and water color. More tributary anglers are invited to help with feeding the fish and cleaning the pens. Biggest brown trout so far is a 16-pound, 12-ounce fish out of Point Breeze, weighed in by Gary Cregan of Rochester. And Erie Canal bolstered flows (year 2) will be contributing to the fishy equation sooner then later in multiple tribs! Port Bay still has perch fishing along the north end of the bay. Chance of fresh steelhead on the backside of the last higher flows or at least the past falls browns and steelhead should be redistributed. We have also been catching fish from 25-70 down. Some steelhead and cohos were caught with spoons. A little bit hard to stay on top of trib water flows as it seems like Canal drainage water is being passed thru with select adjustments on the water managers end that only they know about. No surprise, youd have to think we would pay for all that previous warm weather sometime. Fish as soon as reasonable conditions allow instead of waiting for supposed better conditions that may or may not materialize. Flows in the other area smaller waterways did bump up slightly from the most recent precipitation but seem to be sliding back to medium ish for now. Salmon are starting to stage in shallow water and becoming more active. Blown flows typically come from the overflow channel. Fish are still spawning in the typical areas on or near gravel. Your email address will not be published. At a Lake Ontario Charter Boat Association (LOCBA) meeting held at the Irondequoit Fish and Game Club, Brian Weidel of USGS spoke about the results of the 2022 Spring alewife sampling. We dropped our port rigger down and within 5 minutes we hooked up on a 18 lb king. Private launches are available while public launches wait to reopen. (Deadline for the Open was Monday, 6/7). Then there are those fish more or less landlocked in the overflow pools. Production of hard copies is finished and have been delivered to License Issuing Agents. Guys report good to strong numbers of Kings at the dam and overflow. Anglers might consider releasing any overflow channel fish back into the turbine channel to give those fish best chances at returning to the Lake later this spring. If theres significant rain ahead of or instead of the ice/snow, then trib flows could be on the rise and going off color. And we barely got clipped by the worst of it like SW of the area around Buffalo got it! Spoon grabbing fun hard fighters with a dark skein wagon thrown in too for mid/end Sept 2021 at the Oak Orchard Rivermouth. Registration is only open for KOTO at Ernsts Lake Breeze Marina. First week of Sep 2019 with lots more chances ahead. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: Click to subscribe to Orleans Countys Weekly Fishing Report (written by Ron). First fish took a deep meat rig. So far thru today the heavier rains have been south of here and the trend looks like the Oak is on the rise while the smaller tribs are barely dropping or holding steady. 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. Its fall and its leaf fall time so expect maybe daily water level fluctuations on the Oak thanks to hydro power operation. So when even a reasonable high and stained water window presents itself, that may be the best time to fish. A few good browns reported to be hooked up yesterday on the Oak. The last shot of rain was Sunday and theres been some cooler weather for the beginning part of this week. Its been a windy week on Lake Ontario off the Orleans County NYCoastline. 2.79K subscribers Oak Orchard River Fishing at Waterport Dam "Guess What We Caught" June 2, 2021. Kings and cohos have been hanging around in 110-160 FOW between the farm and the glass house. If an angler is fishing upstream, they should fish downstream of the other angler or consider fishing another day. A couple of days of cold weather earlier this week probably hastened the retreating flows. Keep informed about 2021 canal hours. At the Oak Billboard on the NYS Thruway. Remember use caution in interpreting the upstream USGS gauging stations on the Oak that can mean little or nothing for flows downstream of the Waterport hydro especially in considering both the turbine channel and overflow channel. On their way to Wilson Harbor, he reports that they started catching browns and cohoes just shy of Shadigee in 7-10 FOW. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. There was a little bit of snow showers too that is melting off today. The other area smaller tribs look mostly open again with mod to med flows and slightly stained water color. The best spinner/fly set up is DW Gator Flasher Spindoctor with an A-TOM-IK BAM fly. 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. Early Sep 2017. So hopefully if it stays mild well look for rain or if it goes cold well look for snow so that good trib flows will prevail for steelhead action. To the west, theres not a lot of recent reports but flows should be more like moderate to medium and going toward clear. They caught this 29# salmon earlier this week, their biggest catch of the year! Flows are actually up just a bit from earlier in the week when the visibility was less. 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. Looking forward to more angler reports and success but over all the fishing pressure has been real light. Not enough precipitation here yet to cause any great change in Oak or trib flows. 98) Many thanks to the Archers Club for opening up the Fall fishing access. We can also forward you a copy of the Brookfield Power Company brochure highlighting that area via email. Stay tuned! Coupled with the rise in flows, hopefully, that will bring on some more brown trout migrations in the Oak. For more information call 888-733-5246 or visit their website at www.loc.org . Captain Mikes recommendation is using mainly a flasher fly bite yellow flashers, blue green flies. Stay tuned and keep tabs on the weather and water flows and get out there when you can. Not a whole lot of reports coming back in for the Oak but now with flows that are a little more easily drifted guys should be into a few browns or steelhead. Not surprising since it was a real gloomy overcast wet kind of day that you would expect good fish movement. Beads in natural colors really shine on early season trout with all the salmon eggs around. Back on the retreat thru today after a cold night. 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. The highlight though, was landing everyones. Theres no significant icing anywhere that we are aware of. Look for plenty of brown trout action ahead, most guys targeting browns look toward end of Oct, thru Nov and begin part of Dec.You gotta get thru at least some Kings before that brown trout action heats up then followed by steelhead! We cannot speak for the power company or interpret their site rules. 3.5. Real light fishing pressure except for a few guys fishing nearer the dam and they have been getting hook ups. Even during the current COVID-19 public health crisis, getting outdoors and connecting with nature while angling in New Yorks waters is a great way to help maintain mental and physical health. Water temps have remained downright cool late into this season despite up and down flows. Some rain on the order of a 1/4 inch fell last night but not a big change in trib flows. See you on the water! Steelhead have been there and more likely to trickle in. We will be searching for a high quality (resolution) photograph in a few months to promote lake fishing in Orleans County. Forecast is back to the seasonable warm temps that we have been prone to so far this whole trib season highs near 40F for mid week and warmer yet for end of week. The more the water temps drop, the more active the trout will become. Fishing on the bays has been excellent. Thank you to the DEC, the volunteers and especially Ernsts Lake Breeze Marina for the use of their boat slips/docks this Spring. The fish are going to turn on and off there so persistence is the name of the game and long and light presentations. Flows in the Oak are high and stained with about 1 foot of visibility. The other area smaller waterways are about mod with water color of about 2+ ft of viz. Even lucky, old and not pretty casters like the Licorice Man can get in on the early hard striking and fighting fresh King action at the Oak Orchard rivermouth! To the east, like at Sandy Creek, the higher Canal bolstered flows have made for better migration conditions with pods of salmon bolting from the estuary holding water and spreading upstream, along with a few browns mixed in.. We found meat was the best bait. Downstream slow water is getting pretty froggy thanks to rising Lake Ontario levels and the lowering upstream flows. Stay tuned though for any future high water that could really perk things up. Any emergency Canal drainage flows are now tempered and so that leaves tribs like the Oak and Sandy mostly to regular run of the river flows. And maybe into the early spring! All the waterways are wide open to fish with no icing to worry about for now. 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. You wouldnt mind see flows a little higher in the Oak for best steelhead chances, but the risk there is to be careful what you wish for. Flows in the other smaller waterways are about medium and slightly stained, likely offering up a nice fishable window for now. At least flows are stronger which helps combat icing back up. We are in the high season for visiting fisherman so go to. Anglers are toughing it out for a few bites daily on browns or steelhead. Fishing pressure is over-the-all pretty light and manageable. Canal water flow managers are likely throttling back any additional Canal releases into the tribs thanks to all the precipitation. The river flow has increased with the rain this week. The in between moderate or medium and slightly stained flows came and went pretty quick! Good case for earlier season catch and release and reasonable creel limits Point Breeze Oak action March 2020. Then theres the building King numbers at the dam, fish numbers probably outpacing the creeling pressure to this point. Flows in the Oak are about medium and slightly stained with about 2 ft of visibility. Id look for it going high and stained about thru this weekend. It wont break the drought conditions but it may just perk up the action in the area smaller tribs. Ernie Calandrelli has been slapping the eyes with harnesses. Action reported pretty good around the Archers Club yesterday and then slower today. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. Guys have so far caught a few browns and a few steelhead and a few cohos and a few Atlantics. Then from there it was a slow but steady pick. 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 LOC started Friday and runs until September 6thLabor Day. The lake conditions could not have been better, we just needed to get them on some fish. Bro-Weekend was a success for the Meyer family from Eastern PA and NJ (pictured below)! 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. Strong upstream headwater supplies are likely driving the water feed below the dam. 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. The area smaller trib flows bumped up slightly while flows in the Oak have kept humming along at about slightly high and slightly stained. Same set up as the night before. Especially with the way the weather is proceeding. Fish have been taking mostly spoons with a few meat and flasher/fly mixed in. High and stained flows gives up some fresh Oak Orchard chrome for the Licorice Man. Anglers who find the best fishing often anticipate when the right conditions will come together. Cool nights and cooperative winds should make for better battles with more staging Kings and trout chances as well. Our best set up was a 10 white double crush glow Spindoctor with A-TOM-MIK glow warship twinkie head. There is some icing especially in downstream slow water spots and some bank ice. (There will be no fees for the 2021 canal boating season.) Reports of lowering flows in Johnson Creek and we are unsure why? There could be fresh steelhead, fresh silver browns or drop back fish. Look for some late fish to come thru but likely not in any great concentrations. Look for a bit of a temp shock there and the fishing action back on the rebound as things warm back up. Flows in the Oak are restored thru the turbine channel. Past weekend action a little slower perhaps a result of increased fishing pressure. Everything is wide open to fish and its going to take a cold snap to get things iced back up again. This latest rise in flows and continued cool down should kick off better brown trout migrations in the Oak setting up good drifting chances into November and maybe into December with reasonable weather hanging in. The first will be a 1 day event July 10th. Other area smaller tribs like Johnson and Marsh have lower flows so look for scattered numbers of upstream fish. Good looking nice active fish all around. Click here for the Brookfield Varick Fish Safely brochure. Value 4.2. 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. Guys in the Oak early today still fishing whats been the medium ish flows and slightly stained, but flows likely headed toward high and stained if not later today then by tomorrow. Warrior Spoons Little Blue Pill and Double Trouble were our MVPs while GRC Trolling Flies Bull Bells did most of the damage on the Lake Trout. On recon today I saw only a few guys parked at the dam. Flows in the Oak look slightly high consisting of all turbine water with maybe 6 inches of viz. Flows in the Oak are already on the rise today thanks to increasing overflow water. Remember the season is closed until Dec. 1. Most successful trollers are still a bit off shore at least in the 80+ FOW range or more for best action (pictured below). Mid Apr 2022. Conditions were ideal with stained river water and dirty near shore Lake waters on northwest winds for cover for the fish to disperse. Brown trout reports still about 50% good/50% slow. We finished the day with a few more fish and a memory to last forever. The Sportsmen Archers Club Fly Fishing Only Catch and Release Contest was held October 16, 17, 18 2019. 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. Hard copies can be requested by emailing FWFish@dec.ny.gov. Even at this almost mid-Oct timeframe, theres still good hookup chances from the nearshore Lake Ontario all the way to the dam, so the fishing opportunity definitely will spread out. Boy did they hit it just right! Or for the fall stay at our new well appointed private ground floor lodge (Garage Lodge) located just 6 miles east on Route 18. Dave Chilson and company keep the LOC leaderboard updated on an hourly basis. A great time was had by all and theyre looking forward to returning next year! This position resides in the Biological & Environmental Systems Sciences, Energy Science & Technology . Total snow cover in the immediate area may only be 6 inches give or take, but the snow is wind swept bare in spots or drifted in feet otherwise. They will be held out of Oak Orchard. Best spoon is a gold laser spook. 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. Lets hope the weather keeps serving up the so-far good fishing chances! It looks like some of the weather we missed out on thru the earlier winter is coming now in the later winter. Its been pretty warm, and the near term forecast thru this week is continued warm with highs pushing the 80s F. Yes the area has been getting some precipitation lately, but no single rain event (yet) has been enough to move fish upstream. Good drifts on lighter leads are still scoring some hook ups on some dark and slightly silver fish. Oak Orchard, Sandy i Salmon Creek, vor avea debite mai mari. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Albion, NY 14411 Traxstech Corporation Warrior Lures Sport Fishing Products. Any future rise in flows should perk up the action for fresh fish so well hope the upcoming forecast brings that on either with rain or snow and then melt off. Water temps have flirted with 40F but should slide back with the forecasted colder weather ahead. It is still not too late to enter. That could push more fish into the river plume and into the channel. The Fishing Beat: Colder. At least whatever trib and near shore Lake Ontario trout action that is underway is not likely to experience a temp spike anytime soon. Warmer temps here tempered some by cooling lake breezes. Solo angler snaps a quick pic and the hardy cold water fish is released for action another day! No doubt well have concentrations of Kings into November. Even without any significant new precipitation, look for flows in the Oak to stay up thanks to strong swamp headwater supplies. Avoid close contact, such as shaking hands, hugging, and kissing. And, a big shout-out and congratulations to Crazy Yankee for winning this past weekends 2021 Niagara Pro Am! Flows yesterday in the AM were down but did rebound nicely to the mod or almost med flows weve had this season. See pictures below from July 12-13 of fish caught on Troutman 2! Good chance for some icing conditions coming on there. Knowing there were kings laying on the bottom, we left our divers out with meat. Colder temps could bring back some icing conditions especially in the smaller waterways if lower flows prevail. Call 585-682-4546 or email document.getElementById("eeb-573343-278334").innerHTML = eval(decodeURIComponent("%27%69%6e%66%6f%40%66%69%73%68%6f%61%6b%6f%72%63%68%61%72%64%2e%63%6f%6d%27"))*protected email* for a reservation ASAP! Could be guys were finding easier fishing flows on the smaller waterways. The bite was not hot and heavy but we picked at a few steelhead as we approached the 30 line. The winner of the Salmon Division was just 1 oz less and caught by Aiden Stafford of Rochester on U Betcha. See our list of charters and guides HERE. Other hook ups weve heard about in the Oak include a few browns, some smallish Atlantics and a good sized steelhead or two. Releases may change due to weather and other conditions. Brown trout on an average are on the smaller side this year with a bigger one here and there mixed in. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. Definitely breaking toward Spring so get those cold water steelhead drifts in while you can. Out of winter hibernation just to keep the pinners honest a med fresh pretty steelhead comes to the dead drift. If you mark fish, trying trolling through a few times and get them to bite. We left the dock at 6:00 and struggled to get our first bites. Theres lots of good fishing for salmon, steelhead and brown trout ahead! Ron Bierstine has wrapped up his stream fishing reports for the season. 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. Action has been a little more measured then say 2 3 weeks ago when it seemed we got a small run of fresh steelhead. The following report is courtesy of Captain Andy Bliss of Cold Steel Sportfishing.
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oak orchard fishing report 2021