The Inaugural RFE Fishing Report
Welcome to Rayno's Fishing Excursion's Fishing Report!
For those of you whom I have yet to meet, I hope you find my site interesting and this reports page informative!
As for those I've had the pleasure of fishing with, it's nice to see you again! I am happy to have a home on the web so we may all correspond with one another.
Giving an opening fishing report at the end of the river season is tough, so I've decided to give a nice re-cap.
Early fall held some phenomenal night-trolling on Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Salmon River for kings. As the water levels remained fairly low, the season extended it's way in to October, making for some great fishing with minimal boat traffic. Hard to argue with that!
As the second week of October came around, fishing during the day on the Salmon River became our primary tactic. Although we operated at the minimum flow of 335 cfs for most of the season, the sheer number of King and Coho salmon in the river made for a wicked plug-bite. Plenty of action everyday!
The last week of October marked my first steelhead trip of the season, fresh chrome was abound and the bite was happening! This was certainly telling of how the rest of the season would play out, as the fishing remained great throughout the winter and in to the spring (after the flooding of course). We saw some decent water in our fall, which tapered to a winter that was filled with our minimum flow of 285 cfs. The winter was certainly long and harsh, which followed with a very high water spring. As the runoff commenced, the Salmon River climbed and climbed. As the flood waters receded to a fishable level the drift boats were blessed with an excellent bite with plenty of water. Beads, eggs or bags, the fish were hungry!
During a high-water spring the saying goes, "If the rivers blow, to the lake we go" and boy did that hold true. As the flood waters receded below 5,000 cfs on the Salmon River we took to the shoreline trolling stickbaits for Lake Ontario Brown Trout. After a tougher bite last year, I wasn't sure what to expect. Luckily, lots of hungry fish awaited!
As some of you know, from sometime in mid-April to mid-September I take to trolling on Lake Ontario in pursuit of our finned-friends aboard the Dixie Dandy alongside Captain Gerry Bresadola, which is part of the Cold Steel Sportfishing Fleet run by Captain Tom Burke. Currently, the brown trout fishing has remained stellar here in Oswego, NY as well as some great lake trout fishing to boot. I am looking forward to this season on the lake and will certainly keep this reports page up-to-date with our outings on Lake Ontario!
