A few more guys out on the Oak today than the past weekend, but still not all that much fishing pressure. These 23 & 25 lb Salmon were caught in 450 to 500 fow.40 to 120 down, using Dipseys 180 to 220 just slightly west of the Oak. The forecast after the warmup for the end of week/beginning part of the weekend is back to cold temps with snow on the backside of the rain so the up and down, 2 3 day cycle will continue. Browns and Atlantics and steelhead in the mix. Some LES is coming this weekend. Some steelhead and cohos were caught with spoons. Chance of icing in select areas. Sandy Creek is probably remaining stubbornly stained from that Canal drainage but definitely dropping back some. Parking will not be allowed at anytime on the road at the top of the driveway and therefore no walk in access down the driveway. At the release time and thru the following early AM cormorant predation was largely kept in check. Spoons are UV Mags, green. Still some steelhead action hanging on in the Oak thanks to a return to good high flows without any real spike in water temps yet. As soon as the levels come down more trout will show up. Flows in the other area smaller tribs should be around med and slightly stained. Thru this weekend flows are prob more agreeable for better drifts but the water color is worse so there could be tougher action. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. 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. Less then 1 inch of snow accumulations are expected here on the WNYs Lake Ontario Plain. If an angler is fishing upstream, they should fish downstream of the other angler or consider fishing another day. 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. Send one my way once and awhile 12. After a few decent runs, the fish was starting to cooperate That was until it got to the back of the boat. If theres significant rain ahead of or instead of the ice/snow, then trib flows could be on the rise and going off color. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. 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. Keys to our success can be credited to ATOMMIK flies behind Stinger Flashers, specifically pigpen, scumline, Marvs fatty, and white Bikini. Trailing stud, B & B fly glows, and green glo flys. We believe our web reports are the straightest poop by far about Oak Orchard and most WNY conditions. 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. Pete Alex of Vision Quest Charters reports that he caught a limit of salmon and trout both days last weekend out of Wilson. There were some hook ups thru the past weekend right before this latest rise in flows. A few leftover coho and browns are in the system too. The next significant rise in flows may bring on some fresh steelhead action thru Mar. Lake effect rain dumped three inches of rain around the Port Bay area over the weekend. Some reports of stained water color to the east which could be a result of Canal drainage. Look for better rivermouth and lower river action each day on cool or wet weather. The king was 32 pounds, 4 ounces and it was a new Grand Prize leader for the derby. I have stayed busy trolling 60-105 ft near bottom with cut bait fly rigs especially on magnum wire divers. Consider how wet its been for months now, the high water tables, saturated fields and brim full swamp headwater supplies and youll come to realize the typical slow rise and quick fall of trib levels is going to occur more like quick rise and slow fall. Release schedule for fall 2022 to be released soon. Stay tuned! With all the high water weve had previously, you might not have predicted any low flows this spring. Spring will offer up only so many cold water chances! Then from there it was a slow but steady pick. You can lay a rod down on the bank or net a fish or walk along the immediate riverbank or walk around a wading obstruction for safety but anglers cannot CONGREGATE on the Archers Club grounds on the dates not included above. Solo angler snaps a quick pic and the hardy cold water fish is released for action another day! Back to some winter like weather and temps for now. Seasonable cold today and dropping back below freezing tonight then a nice warmup mid week with chance of rain showers. A nice spate of water which is hanging on in the Oak and retreating in the other area smaller tribs back to the base Canal feed. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. 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. With cool water temperatures, rig depths of 30 to 80 ft down are getting Troutman 2 anglers kings coho and some whopper lake trout! Photo courtesy of Mike Lavender. Avoid close contact, such as shaking hands, hugging, and kissing. King numbers are slowly building in fast water areas on the Oak, besides whats been good numbers at the dam and the downstream frog water areas. Water temps have flirted with 40F but should slide back with the forecasted colder weather ahead. They fished a little west of port between the 27-29 lines of latitude. 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. Less noticeable will be in Sandy since Canal flows there are throttling up. Chance of maybe an ever so slight bump up and back down quick with a little more color to the water. The better reports I hear are from guys that have some Kings migrate past them or hold and they get some drifts to them. After fishing at the Point both the Black North Inn and the new Gilligans Galley (Ernst) are serving up terrific meals either sit down or to go! Wow! There was another couple inches of wet snow and something like a 0.25 inch of rain thru last night. Capt. King salmon with browns inside of 100 kings and steelhead out to 500 the bite is good. Oak rivermouth dredging operations are likely days away from finishing. In the spring while waiting for perfect conditions sometimes things only get worse, so if theres a reasonable fishing window consider hitting it sooner then later. So, flows, weather and fishing action are somewhat up and down. The project is funded through the American Rescue Plans Act which designated a portion of federal dollars to be used to promote tourism. Otherwise its a little tough to report on average fishing conditions. Water temps on Port Bay are in the high 70s and autumn is the time fish start gobbling food. The additional releases from the Erie Canal are triggering early Browns! The lower flows will concentrate the available fish in a few good lies or gravel spots. Look for cooperative wind and wave action now and thru mid week with chance for higher wind forecast at the end of the week and subsequent tougher dirtier water chances. And Erie Canal bolstered flows (year 2) will be contributing to the fishy equation sooner then later in multiple tribs! Other area smaller tribs are med to slightly high and dirty. Flows in the Oak are on the drop slightly after a bump up from the past weekends rain. Could be guys were finding easier fishing flows on the smaller waterways. We took a look at flows and found the same medium-ish or slightly high that its been and some stain, but maybe not as dirty as reported a few days ago. The charter fleet has had king salmon action in 100-120 FOW using chrome glow flasher fly combinations down to 60 ft. 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. Our best set up was a 10 white double crush glow Spindoctor with A-TOM-MIK glow warship twinkie head. Click here for the Brookfield Varick Fish Safely brochure. Slightly lower flows will likely reveal more browns then thought when the water was higher. 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. Try around the green buoy marker. Flows for now are slightly high or maybe one click less consisting of all turbine water at 2+ feet of visibility. There seems to be a stalemate between the open Lake temps and the trib water temps thanks to the relatively mild winter. The forecasted colder temps without significant precip tho may cause some ice up conditions esp if low flows prevail. Nothing new about that for steelhead angling! Coupled with the rise in flows, hopefully, that will bring on some more brown trout migrations in the Oak. A small crush of people at the Waterport dam, but even by those standards really not that crowded. March 2020 steelhead chrome action on the Oak! Still light fishing pressure yet the regulars who are getting out there are getting their hookups like nearer the dam. Seasonable temps for the end of week and chance for a quick significant warmup with rain again around the end of the upcoming weekend. Anglers fishing from boats should be able to maintain at least six feet of distance between one another. Rain has been slow and steady so look for smaller area trib flows to go high and dirty probably stopping short of blown. Spoons used were Gold 42 during overcast and Silver 42 when the sun was out. Visit Capt Songins Facebook page for more videos he posts throughout the week. A PFD is not required to fish all of the Oak, only on the Brookfield Power Company areas below the dam (about 600 feet) where wading is permitted. New Yorks lakes and streams offer great opportunities for fishing in a wide array of settings across the state. With any luck well get some measurable liquid precip to help flows out. These unique bells seem to really trigger the Lakers. Fishing pressure is down all around, especially in the Oak. The fishing has been challenging not least due to the warm weather we had last week. We changed the name from Orleans Outdoor to Oak Orchard Tackle & Lodge going on 3 years ago! View the calendar of releases at this link:CanalsNY Fall Fishing Program. The rain is Lake Effect so as is often the case with snow most of it goes south of the area. The smaller side channels and Trout and Orwell brook all have fish; which are providing the most action at this time. This is the available info at this time, fishing is allowed as in the past, unless something changes, it will be enforced. Archers Club. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. Fishing pressure looks more like the end of November than the beginning of November for this mid week period so far. All Rights Reserved. The fish were biting on a deep rigger set at 120, flasher/meat rig and wire dipsey, 280-300 out, gold 42 second paddle with mirage fly, NBK paddle mirage fly, 600 hundred copper with a Jill bill meat rig. No prepared food will be served and the Catch and Release Fly Fishing Tourney will not take place for 2021. A fair number of Kings are loitering in downstream areas on the Oak with skein drifters still into them up at least until yesterday. This was a Fathers Day fishing weekend out of Bald Eagle Marina. When flows are reduced temporarily, it reveals pretty good numbers of fish. Flows in the Oak are slowly on the retreat from higher and dirtier flows. All the trib flows are up just a bit from the latest rain thru yesterday. Its a difficult forecast to predict what may happen to trib conditions but any over-the-all colder temps that will come along with the icing or snow should continue the dropping and clearing trend in the waterways to moderate in the Oak and low in the smaller waterways. Saturday afternoon we fished 150-200 in water a few miles west of Port. Lots of anglers anxious to get out there, and a few are, but the Kings are pretty much following a normal script as far as timing. The Greater Niagara Fish Odyssey is underway in Erie, Niagara and Orleans County August 20 until September 5, 2021. Out of winter hibernation just to keep the pinners honest a med fresh pretty steelhead comes to the dead drift. After unseasonably warm temps thru yesterday and wind, the forecast thru this end part of the week is cooler with rain or showers tonight going over to snow showers tomorrow. Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. Conditions were ideal with stained river water and dirty near shore Lake waters on northwest winds for cover for the fish to disperse. 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. If you want to help for salmon we can direct you to the contacts for that effort. Through Operation Injured Soldiers, Captains Mike Grager, Mike Lavender and Bob Eder took 12 wounded veterans fishing and enjoyed 2 days on Lake Ontario. Then it was east most of Saturday, which did not help. Then again who would have guessed thered be a few days in the end of March this cold! Spring spoon casting action for brown trout at the pier heads and lakeshore when wind and waves come together to bring that semi stained water within casting range. Chance of some Lake Effect Snow this weekend with any accumulations expected south of here off Lake Erie. 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. Its not likely to freeze back up significantly even with cold temps. Sunday was a special day. Water color is one foot of visibility or less. For more details including payouts, visit their website. A spate of water there too might drop back fish to downstream spots where guys are drifting and also bring on the last of the fresh run fish. One angler for the beginning part of this week reported good action. Tough time of the year for any serious drying out since everything will wind up essentially as runoff. Intrepid anglers are capable of catching fish on the Oak in all of these flows, except for maybe blown AND dirty. The NYSDEC Region 8 office in Avon, NY would in-fact love to hear from more anglers showing concern for trib issues. Definitely breaking toward Spring so get those cold water steelhead drifts in while you can. A nice mid week weather period now after the holiday weekend with clear and warm days forecast today and tomorrow. We are living and experiencing all the fishing action directly or thru trusted reports of other die hard anglers as it happens. For more information, visit our website at visitoswegocounty.com and click on the Fishing Report along the top bar on the home page. Cool if not coldish temps forecast thru this week with rain showers. !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src='https://weatherwidget.io/js/widget.min.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,'script','weatherwidget-io-js'); We are on the backside of some challenging wind, snow and cold temps. Theres a chance of an inch or two maybe south of the area off lake Erie. 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. The Archers Club will be open for parking 7 days/week beginning Oct 08 until Nov 11. 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. The better reports I hear are from guys that have some Kings migrate past them or hold and they get some drifts to them. 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. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. With fair to good bolstered flows from the Erie Canal guys are reporting good brown trout action with a green King here and there and/or a sporty colorful coho. If theres steelhead in the Oak then more then likely theres a few slinking up those smaller waterways too. Everything is wide open to fish with no icing conditions. All the water, at least in the fishable mile or so stretch below the dam on the Oak, is open and ice free. And we barely got clipped by the worst of it like SW of the area around Buffalo got it! Will you be there when a chromer moves upstream? Ron Bierstine task force member. A dropping and clearing water scenario is a contrast for what youd rather see as rising or high flows for best chances at fresh fish migrations. Real nice flows by steelhead standards. Any significant precipitation could raise all the trib flows back high and dirty. Please use the Oak Orchard State Boat Launch on Archbald Rd. Fished pretty much 100- 250 feet of water. Good chance for some icing conditions coming on there. The longer those fish stay in the overflow pool, they harder they become to get out. The other area smaller tribs have good looking med and slightly stained flows for now and likewise should be dropping back toward mod or lower and clearer. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. Nights are cooling down tho, even with the current warm day temps and that has at least made for good fishing action early and late. Oak Inn Duesseldorf, Dusseldorf: See traveler reviews, 4 candid photos, and great deals for Oak Inn Duesseldorf, ranked #193 of 261 hotels in Dusseldorf and rated 4.5 of 5 at Tripadvisor. So it sounds a little like an improvement from a struggle for a hook up to getting a few. That may be a result of the good flows bringing in those steelhead. So with light angling pressure in the Oak, a few drop backs, spawners and fresh fish have been encountered in the low and clear flows. Remember the turbine channel can only get so high due to how much flow can pass thru the hydro plant. Thanks, Capt. First week of Sep 2019 with lots more chances ahead. Fishing and weather conditions pretty nice by late fall/early winter standards. Fishing pressure is light to moderate with what looks like a few guys here and there probably enjoying holiday time off. At least its good to see organizers and attendees efforts at getting back to a normal pre-Covid scene. Oak Orchard River Salmon Fishing (Any Cat Fish at the Dam?) The following report is courtesy of Capt. And we predict even more mixed-up conditions for the next few days. Those fish deserve a chance to immigrate back out to the Lake if caught and released back into the turbine channel. 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. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. As we hit 515 FOW the 85 rigger fires with a Warrior Lures Blue Jeans (on the 10 ft cheater). 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. Water temps for now are already in the the high 30sF on the Oak and probably going higher with the forecasted warmup thru the end of this week. With these colder temps the fish are reasonably hardy, they wont be later on. Theres still good numbers of fish higher in the Oak watercourse nearer the dam. For now flows in the Oak are moderate or optimistically almost medium and mostly clear. Our Cannon Downriggers parked at 30 & 40 with spoons back 30 were our hottest setups. Already hearing of small boat civilian trollers on the near shore Lake Ontario waters having success so casters at the pier heads should be able to get in on that action too. Fished the 26-27 line, a little west but not far. Trolling in a west direction was tough as the current was making it difficult. Colder temps could bring back some icing conditions esp in the smaller waterways if lower flows prevail. Mixed bag action on the Oak, mostly salmon action on the other area smaller tribs. So no big change in flows yet in the Oak. Anglers out over the past weekend reported a few hook ups on some steelhead by working different spots in the river. Try to keep at least six (6) feet of distance between you and others. First, take advantage of mature king, coho salmon and brown trouts urge to seek the river waters around the piers at the Point Breeze pier, channel, and bay casting with brightly colored spoons is the ticket, especially predawn and at sunset. Flows in the Oak are slightly high with something now approaching 2 feet of viz. Monday was much better with a slight breeze on the lake. The bite was not hot and heavy but we picked at a few steelhead as we approached the 30 line. This is in some contrast to earlier reports of mostly Kings kicking around on the lowering flows. Mixed bag chances for lakers, browns, steelhead in the River or on the Niagara bar rivermouth. Mike Grager from Get Hooked Sportfishing: Today we had a young army veteran out for his first time fishing salmon on Lake Ontario!! Water is moss green color, with 6-7 feet of visibility. Divers: Seneca Special with the Atomic big fin glow behind it (a standard he runs this time of year). A few good browns reported to be hooked up yesterday on the Oak. Leaf fall is underway so expect daily water level fluctuations thanks to turbine rack cleaning at the dam. 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. Hopefully the fishing pressure overall is likewise spread out like the fish. Thanks to losing the Canal feed/winter drainage, flows in the Oak are real low. Wind has subsided and we are on the backside of 3/4 1 inch of rain. As of 8/23/21, the current leader of the Fall LOC Derby is Theresa Hoodley from Pottstown, PA with a 32 lb 2 oz Salmon, weighed in at Wilson. Copyright 2023 On The Water, LLC. Sign up for our FREE Fishing Reports Today! 98) Trout and salmon rely on alewife in particular in the open Lake waters of Lake Ontario. Subscribe to Orleans Countys Weekly Fishing Report. No significant Lake Effect Snow expected here on the WNY Lake Ontario Plain. Downstream frog water areas are all open with no icing conditions yet. On the west side of Shadigee just past Flat Top, they hit their first King and the further they went, the better it got. Both inshore structure, mid water and offshore has a mixed bag catch available. Well just have to wait and see if itll be a hard and fast melt or something a little more moderate and gradual. Expect water level fluctuations thanks to hydro power operations especially as leaf fall is likely to accelerate soon. The other area smaller waterways offer as good or better action by virtue of smaller water courses with the fish probably more concentrated. Value 4.2. No serious snow accumulations expected with highs in the 40sF. Oak Orchard River Fishing for Salmon Waterport Dam October 5, 2021.Shout out to Alabama! Flows will likely just open up minus any blow out, as long as there is no significant precipitation. Downstream slow water areas will be freezing and closing in while upstream areas should stay open except for some bank ice. Cleanliness 4.2. Warm temps are forecast today and tomorrow and seasonable thru the beginning part of the weekend. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains.

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