The Tourism Dept has also been busy redesigning an Orleans County Fishing Map Pad (1117) that will be distributed throughout the county. Flows are plenty high enough to hide fish and encourage fresh fish migrations. Your email address will not be published. Watch for other changes soon like more content to this website. Everyone enjoyed the great hospitality and convenience of the Archers Club and experienced some good fishing. Chance of icing in select areas. Chris Megan from On the Water mag gets a top notch net job from Bill to land this trophy early in the season fresh male brown trout! Weather and the calendar is the biggest factor for angling pressure and bringing more fishermen out or keeping them indoors. Flows - Oak Orchard Fishing Report. Other area smaller tribs east and west are coming back into slightly high and stained flows. Breakfast is available at Boone & Crocketts Riverside Cafe at Ernsts Lake Breeze Marina. And really you may not want to give up completely on salmon efforts just yet. Since its still busy with plenty of Kings around, anglers need to carefully spot the places where the browns are shadowing the Kings. This weeks Picture of the Week features Ted, Gene, Jill and Beth from Ohio. Capt. A few more lake trout have shown up in the river to do their spawning ritual. Some days guys seem to do OK and other days are slower. Canal seasonal feed and winter drainage water is done or nearly done and the trib levels remain up thanks to the natural run of the river contributions. The other area smaller tribs have med to slightly high flows with slightly stained water color. 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. We had tried for brown trout in close, but they didnt cooperate for us, so I moved out deeper to try to find some lake trout.. Traxstech Corporation Warrior Lures Sport Fishing Products. 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. Any future precipitation could raise flows and bring back dirty water color. Other area smaller tribs have low to moderate flows possibly getting a little bit of stain from the most recent precipitation. 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. It has definitely brought out some more guys so not sure well see the typical fall off in the mid week angler numbers. Look for post spawn browns to be redistributed thru the waterways and the chance for some fresher steelhead. 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. Like we said, Zane Smith of New Brighton, Penn. Be one of the lucky few that experiences good fishing as it takes place instead of hearing that famous quote, you should have been here yesterday!, Tight lines and smooth drags! Stream Conditions - Fish Oak Orchard Fishing Updates Click to subscribe to Orleans County's Weekly Fishing Report (written by Ron) weekend Sat Feb 25. On the Oak there should be the chance for fresh chrome action esp when the flows are agreeable like now or on the backside of any future high water. Early silver fish like this are a good sign for the upcoming trib action. Most all ice cover looks to be moved out. Flows in the Oak are one click less then medium or what you might call somewhere in between moderate and medium. Warm temps are forecast today and tomorrow and seasonable thru the beginning part of the weekend. Salmon are stacked up in Olcott Harbor and spinners are working for shore casters. 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.. From 9-mile point to the high rocks has been the most consistent producer for a lot of boats; as well as in front of the Salmon River. Trolling in a west direction was tough as the current was making it difficult. In subsequent years ahead when runs are made up of multiple year classes of fish the returns and fishing prospects could be even better! Back to some winter like weather and temps for now. Its not likely to freeze back up significantly even with cold temps. Theres no new real cold temps in the near forecast and if even this rain doesnt open the smaller area tribs right away by this weekend or next week they likely will be thanks to a continued warm-ish weather forecast. Flows in the Oak are still slightly high and water color has improved with 2 ft of visibility. Copyright 2023 On The Water, LLC. Some LES is coming this weekend. Niagara River Laker action. 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. $67,400 Total Cash Pay-Out Early fish always tend to head to the dam as it has the most oxygen and they are hoping to go farther upstream to cooler waters. No icing anywhere and the downstream slow water is wide open. Fishing pressure most days pretty agreeable with salmon anglers falling out of the mix now and only mod numbers of guys pursuing brown trout so far. Click here for the Brookfield Varick Fish Safely brochure. 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. Going SW or just by the nature of the LES bands having moved around, accumulations will be more in different nearby areas. McDreams Hotel Dusseldorf-City is an excellent choice for travelers visiting Dsseldorf, offering a family-friendly environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay. Expect daily water level fluctuations this time of the year because of leaf fall and wind. Wash hands often or use a hand sanitizer when soap and water are not available. The longer those fish stay in the overflow pool, they harder they become to get out. Chance of rain showers thru the mid week on warming temps and an expected area-wide accumulating snow end of week on cooling temps. Mid Apr 2022. A decent pair of polarized glasses should reveal pods of fish holding around gravel spots. Spin Doctor, Chrome, Crush UV, 2 face with an Atomic purple mirage behind it. There are miles of water for fish to be dropping back from compared to about only a short mile of Oak water. 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. Theres probably still some old Orleans Outdoor content out there on the web and Goggle. We are looking for a photo that was taken in Orleans County waters featuring an impressive catch, smiling faces, blue skies and with an icon such as the Oak Orchard Lighthouse in the background. Slightly high and stained flows make for good drifting chances after all the high and dirty. For now it doesnt look like a big snow event. 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. Nice to see some chances spread thru the watercourse now with fish that are all mostly in good shape. Thru the past weekend we heard of guys getting steelhead hookups nearer the dam including a few good fish. 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 other area smaller waterways are mostly iced and snowed in. See you on the water! Typical more summer- like weather is setting in, including steady southwest to west breezes perfect for attracting even more fish to Orleans County/Lake Ontario waters off the Oak! Nice fresh hard fighting chrome in the Oak on the backside of the late winter high and dirty flows. Read Fishing Reports Weather for Oak Orchard . Its been a windy week on Lake Ontario off the Orleans County NYCoastline. On the backside of this latest cold weather and accompanying wind, the land lubber casters and small boat trollers and small boat casters should be able to get back on those near shore brown trout in semi stained water while the cooler water and bait hangs around. The area smaller trib flows bumped up slightly while flows in the Oak have kept humming along at about slightly high and slightly stained. Likely there are some steelhead in the Oak now and the drift conditions remain challenging to get on them. Capt. Fishing out deep has been hit and miss and no real pattern of lures to speak of. Good chance of rain on Thursday carrying over with gloom on Friday and possibility of 0.5 1 inch of precipitation. Flows in the Oak are high and stained with about one foot of visibility. 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. Kings have for the most part given up the ghost and now some carcasses are seen seeding the waterway. Still light fishing pressure yet the regulars who are getting out there are getting their hookups like nearer the dam. The canal season for navigation ended October 13th and some sections are being lowered. Theres some renewed icing in the fast water stretches of the area smaller tribs. On the Oak guys are getting brown trout hook ups each day with that action seeming to heat up as the fresh salmon action begins to cool down. Get the monthly weather forecast for Dsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, including daily high/low, historical averages, to help you plan ahead. No doubt there are some guys out quietly getting into some browns and steelhead in the smaller tribs. You could help give them their last meal! Water color has improved to about 1 plus feet of visibility. Flows are a big factor in the success of any oak orchard fishing trip. If your image isnt chosen for the billboard, we will consider using it in the 2022 OC Fishing Guide. Spring will offer up only so many cold water chances! 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. Flows consist of lots of turbine water and overflow water that started to come back up for the end of the past weekend. 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. Tuesdays fishing was EPIC despite it being a bit breezy. Flows will likely retreat in the overflow channel thru the mid and end part of the week while turbine flows remain high. If anglers can get their drift thru the Kings, theres been some browns and steelhead hooked too. Port Bay water is very warm and there has been weed growth near the south end. Remember as these kings start to stage that their preferred water temps are also changing. Use white minnow rubber three inches long. You can feel the Spring change in the weather now and with ice cover going away on Lake Alice, there will be the typical warming of water temps in the Oak. The other area smaller tribs comparitively to the Oak anyway, have better looking flows at low to mod and slightly stained viz. The large catfish are biting in Clyde and Palmyra. Now for the mid week, its warmed up again! The imagery will change every 6 months to promote the upcoming fishing season. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Hungry post spawn browns like this semi golden male are eager to bite your spoon, plug or fly. Early Mar 2022 starting from last fall, thru the winter (weather permitting) and lasting until May! Take advantage of any reasonable drift chances for the late winter and spring period since waiting for low and clear means youll prob miss some opportunities. And, a big shout-out and congratulations to Crazy Yankee for winning this past weekends 2021 Niagara Pro Am! Their Catch of Kings ranged from 16 to 22 lbs. Click here for the Brookfield Varick Fish Safely brochure. 10 colors of FishUSA Stealthcore and A-TOM-MIK coppers in 150 & 200 took fish. Real light fishing pressure today, only one car observed in the parking spots on the Oak. Salmon will likely be found from the estuary up through town. When flows are reduced, guys are seeing a handful of browns and a few more steelhead nearer the dam. PDF Oak Orchard Creek Update - canals.ny.gov 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. 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 area has been in a bit of a warmup since the end of the past weekend. The following report is courtesy of Capt. Check out the nice King recent catch pic above.. 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. PDF Details and anticipated dates For details on fishing in for the 2020 Through the past weekend and beginning part of this week, guys reported a few hook-ups by either working the holes, the dam, or swinging spawning staging spots. They also landed 4 mature Kings, 3 steelhead, a brown, and a lake trout! If any Canal winter time drainage is passing thru it must be tempered like Canal managers said they would do. Started in fairly shallow 80-120FOW and got some nice kings first thing in the morning but things slowed. Forecast is continued warm thru tomorrow with chance of precipitation end of day or later tomorrow. Divers: 220-240, 400 coppers. Forecast for the end of week/begin part of the weekend is for another mixed bag precip storm with good chance for accumulating snow here after possible start as rain. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. Thank you to the DEC, the volunteers and especially Ernsts Lake Breeze Marina for the use of their boat slips/docks this Spring. Next better chance at real rain is this weekend. Through Operation Injured Soldiers, Captains Mike Grager, Mike Lavender and Bob Eder took 12 wounded veterans fishing and enjoyed 2 days on Lake Ontario. It is equipped with the latest electronics and fishing equipment. The state is funding the effort as part of the Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative. Other area smaller tribs are med to slightly high and dirty. Those fish deserve a chance to immigrate back out to the Lake if caught and released back into the turbine channel. This weekend there is a scheduled white-water release, that plus the cooler temperatures should attract a better push. Use Power Bait shad color 2 inches in length. Id say Im hearing about 50/50 in good/tough fishing. Try to anticipate dropping and clearing flows and be on the water when reasonable conditions come together! For now most all waterways are low and clear. Lots of water cover has probably spread out the fish. Fish have been taking mostly spoons with a few meat and flasher/fly mixed in. Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report - October 14, 2021 Captain Mikes recommendation is using mainly a flasher fly bite yellow flashers, blue green flies. Seasonable cold is forecast to hang in at least thru the week and weekend. At the Waterport Dam, its reported there are just a few fish and likely none holding in downstream fast water runs or holes. Then there are those fish more or less landlocked in the overflow pools. This entices more brown trout and steelhead to enter and remain in these waterways, improving fish spawning conditions and expanding angling opportunities. No doubt well have concentrations of Kings into November. Any significant rainfall could raise flows up more with dirtier water color. Tom Burke of Cold Steel Sportfishing: After a good rain brought river levels up, a majority of the salmon in the lower river and estuary have moved toward the upper river. The 10,000 pen reared steelhead were towed out to the Oak Orchard River mouth at dusk on Apr 28 and the nets were lowered. 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. 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. One positive for the continued cold weather is trib water temps have not spiked high yet. 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. Johnson is probably more stained then say Sandy. Water color is one foot of visibility or less. View the calendar of releases at the link below. On Saturday there were bass boats fishing on the south side next to the Port Gibson bridge. Fathers Day Outing Courtesy of Get the Net Charter. This weeks Picture of the Week comes fromMike Gragers crew from Get Hooked Sportfishing. She bought him the trip to repay him for taking her fishing when she was young. 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. Fishing pressure picking up some at the dam with downstream guys pretty well spread out. Out of winter hibernation just to keep the pinners honest a med fresh pretty steelhead comes to the dead drift. Biggest brown trout so far is a 16-pound, 12-ounce fish out of Point Breeze, weighed in by Gary Cregan of Rochester. Steelhead should be spread thru the waterways and reports of a few fresh, silver browns too. 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. And maybe into the early spring! Captain Bob Songin from Reel Excitement Charters gives an impressive report from yesterday, April 25th as he trolled west to the Bar in Niagara County. #2 of 53 B&Bs / Inns in Dsseldorf. Slightly cooler forecast for the upcoming weekend and hopefully the serious cold is a goner! A special shout out to St. Marys Archers Club for providing breakfast for so many of our anglers and guests this past month and allowing them access for fishing! We changed the name from Orleans Outdoor to Oak Orchard Tackle & Lodge going on 3 years ago! Certain days youll notice that salmon movement by seeing them crashing around, but as often as not that movement seems to go on quietly. On the west side of Shadigee just past Flat Top, they hit their first King and the further they went, the better it got. 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. Fishing pressure is light with most guys reporting a few steelhead and/or browns. Water is moss green color, with 6-7 feet of visibility. 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. That should make for cleaner drifts, although with a late leaf fall, look for continued usually daily water level fluctuations thanks to hydro power operations. If the forecast is realized, with especially significant rain, there is the chance for high or blown trib flows. This is the available info at this time, fishing is allowed as in the past, unless something changes, it will be enforced. Archers Club. FREE boat launching until the Spring! Fishable flows we have now in Johnson, Oak and Sandy largely a result of bolstered Erie Canal flows. 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. 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. As the cooler weather continues, expect to see a large influx of both steelhead and brown trout moving up stream to feed on the remaining salmon eggs. Amazing how when the vegetation awakens and the runoff equation changes. The nuances of fish migrations is an inexact science and we cannot predict the future. Bob Songin of Reel Excitement Charters Lake Fishing Video Report on Facebook. Flows in the Oak are already on the rise today thanks to increasing overflow water. 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. Production of hard copies is finished and have been delivered to License Issuing Agents. 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! Fish for bass with Senko rigs. Flows in the Oak are on the drop slightly after a bump up from the past weekends rain. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. 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. Temperatures have finally started dropping with cooler weather setting in. We may request cookies to be set on your device. Trout and salmon rely on alewife in particular in the open Lake waters of Lake Ontario. Most fish came from 50-90 down (44 degrees to 60-degree water) under 74-degree surface waters. We went past 300 but found the 250-300 was better. Oak Orchard, Sandy i Salmon Creek, vor avea debite mai mari. 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. 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. Heres the skinny on the weather, and we are not meteorologists. 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. Johnson Creek had a nice bump in flows and got stained and guys reported some salmon on the move there. 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. First real cold night of the year Sunday night probably tightened things up for flows and runoff in the Oak and smaller area tribs as well. More upcoming windy systems produce stirred inshore water which releases river scent so expect more incoming big fish! The next spate of water could bring in the fresh spring steelhead looking for warmer water. For information on fishing Great Lakes tributaries, visit the DEC website. The other area smaller tribs look mostly open again with mod to med flows and slightly stained water color. Most hook up chances will come from long and light float presentations at the dam. Jeremy Sage from, Warrior Lures Sport Fishing Products Traxstech Corporation. (June 12-13) with the King of the Oak (KOTO) on Friday (6/11). No serious cold snap is seen in the near term forecast. 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. Some big steelhead are still in the Oak! Just a handful of cars seen at each access spot. The Greater Niagara Fish Odyssey is slowly catching on with the new Fishing Chaos app and there are 7 different fish species categories up for grabs in both the adult and the youth divisions. Forecast is mostly clear thru the upcoming week, no significant impact expected from the upcoming east coast storm. We ended the morning with all steelhead and a memory that will last forever., Courtesy of Lou Borrelli of Get the Net Fishing Charter, 9/4/21. Chance of even warmer unseasonable temps for next week. Thanks to losing the Canal feed/winter drainage, flows in the Oak are real low. A brown or two mixed in. They also caught their biggest king at 27-1/2 pounds. On the south end of Newark has been a great place for catching bass. For now flows in the Oak are something like a notch less then medium and going clear. Guys have so far caught a few browns and a few steelhead and a few cohos and a few Atlantics. This weeks fishing report is from Capt. ran out of Olcott to fish with his dad aboard the Stalker with Capt. Divers: Seneca Special with the Atomic big fin glow behind it (a standard he runs this time of year). 3.5. Either way theres still a good head of turbine flow thats full bore or close to full bore and the water color is slowly getting better. Like Saturday, our bites were on spoons and meat. 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. Fish On! Orleans County Tourism Avoid surfaces that are touched often, such as doorknobs, handrails, and playground equipment. For more information call 888-733-5246 or visit their website at www.loc.org . Pitch a retrieve and wait for the hard jolt! Try trolling straight out from Sodus Bay west to Ontario searching for kings down 50 over 150 fow. Oak Orchard River Salmon Fishing (Any Cat Fish at the Dam?) November 1 The winner of the Salmon Division was just 1 oz less and caught by Aiden Stafford of Rochester on U Betcha. Most of the area snowpack has now melted although some remains in protected areas. To the east at Sandy Creek flows are reported to be medium or just a notch greater. Water color is real nice at slightly stained 2 ft of visibility so drift chances for now are the best theyve been so far this late winter/early spring period. Best bass spots are downriver around Joseph Davis State Park and Youngstown near Fort Niagara. Even clear water finds the caster at an advantage over the troller. Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report - May 13 , 2021 From a small boat, drifting treated egg skein is a good approach to try, fished under a float. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. There should be a mix of spawning and staged fish in the holes with fresh fish trickling in anytime. So, flows, weather and fishing action are somewhat up and down. We, for sure, have the water flows for now! Flows in the Oak have retreated some to slightly high and slightly stained. Or at best last ditch chances later this spring when the best fresh run fish action may be behind you. This weekend, we had some pretty good fishing despite getting beat up by the rough seas. King salmon with browns inside of 100 kings and steelhead out to 500 the bite is good. 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. No surprise, youd have to think we would pay for all that previous warm weather sometime. 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. Expect daily water level fluctuations thanks to leaf fall/wind and hydro power operations. So it sounds a little like an improvement from a struggle for a hook up to getting a few. The morning started out great but Lady O offered up some serious chop by noon. The fish are going to turn on and off there so persistence is the name of the game and long and light presentations. Erica finds it hard to hold up nearly 20 lbs of fresh King caught at the Oak Orchard rivermouth! We can also forward you a copy of the Brookfield Power Company brochure highlighting that area via email.