oak orchard fishing report 2021

Intrepid anglers are capable of catching fish on the Oak in all of these flows, except for maybe blown AND dirty. Good drifts on lighter leads are still scoring some hook ups on some dark and slightly silver fish. Some LES is coming this weekend. Like we said, Zane Smith of New Brighton, Penn. Reports from the rest of the downstream water or other area smaller tribs are thin thanks to the light fishing pressure. Still no real cool down afoot and the forecast ahead thru the weekend and maybe some of next week looks warm. Ive heard from visiting Rec boats (AKA recreational) that west of the Point in 100-200 ft of water got em steelhead and coho salmon action. This is after mostly tougher action reported for the begin part of the past weekend. Only a sucker here and there reported. Register now and see your name at the top of the list! Most noticeable drop will be the Oak since the Canal flows are also throttling back. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. The other area smaller waterways trending slowly falling flows at around mod and slightly stained. Look for fish to be well spread upstream thru all the waterways with anglers wise to spread out too and try different spots to find fish. At least flows are stronger which helps combat icing back up. 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. 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. Here on the Oak look for low and clear flows with bank ice and the downstream slow water areas frozen. Remember the season is closed until Dec. 1. See you all next year! Hard copies can be requested by emailing FWFish@dec.ny.gov. 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. View the calendar of releases at the link below. Colder temps could bring back some icing conditions especially in the smaller waterways if lower flows prevail. The smaller side channels and Trout and Orwell brook all have fish; which are providing the most action at this time. The next significant rise in flows may bring on some fresh steelhead action thru Mar. Not big numbers of steelhead but a few that likely came in on the previous higher flows we had and are a good portent to upcoming steelhead action in the more traditional February or March timeframe. Some big steelhead are still in the Oak! A brown or two mixed in. Likewise find Kings steaming up the Oak too with good slightly stained flows all around. The salmon are scattered and after the marks are found, they are not hitting easily. Flows likely to remain up and stained at least thru the weekend. Flows can fluctuate by several feet in a short period of time. It might take lots of bobber watching or a few cast and retrieve/swing presentations to hook up on a post spawn brown or staging steelhead. Rain has been slow and steady so look for smaller area trib flows to go high and dirty probably stopping short of blown. Stay tuned tho for any future high water that could really perk things up. Landing a nice salmon today at the dam. There is some icing especially in downstream slow water spots and some bank ice. In early November and early December, all Lake Ontario tributaries (Eighteenmile, Johnson, Oak Orchard, Sandy and Salmon Creeks) will see higher flows. Its unknown if flows will stay as low as I saw today on recon, but likely flows will remain real low or optimistically may go up to less low. Chance of mixed bag precipitation and snow thru tomorrow and early Thursday. Classic scenario in the Oak where dirty water color lags behind the highest flows. Forecast is continued warm thru today and tonight with rain likely today/tonight. 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. 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. You could help give them their last meal! The action at the Oak rivermouth is something like a few fish each prime period like dawn or dusk. Steelhead have been there and more likely to trickle in. Our best spoons were Geezer, UV Watermelon, Midnight Special, Wonderbread, and 42nd. Wow! The best spinner/fly set up is DW Gator Flasher Spindoctor with an A-TOM-IK BAM fly. 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. Greater impacts expected SW of here but the south shore of Lake Ontario may get some accumulations. Still on the cool and breezy side today with another brief warm-up forecast over the next couple days. Thru yesterday guys were into good steelhead action on some fresh fish on the highest flows while water color was not too bad. The large catfish are biting in Clyde and Palmyra. We may request cookies to be set on your device. . This picture was from Saturday morning about 1 mile east of the Oak. View the calendar of releases at this link:CanalsNY Fall Fishing Program. 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. Shorebound casters get in on the brown trout action at the break of spring thru Mar, Apr or May. Access fees will be waived. Some forecasted showers that for once turned into more like rainstorms yesterday and today have brought along that nice gloom for fish migrations, but probably will not change any trib flows much. On the Oak guys are into more then a few cohos too. Canal feed should be continued there so if we find out any intel for that we will pass along. See more info at www.loc.org/leaderboard-current. We are surely going to have water for high and off color flows when the weather breaks toward spring. So for now, flows in the Oak have dropped back to low and clear. Im so sorry, sorry you needed a helmet to fish with me 20. The better reports I hear are from guys that have some Kings migrate past them or hold and they get some drifts to them. Looks like a good head of turbine water with overflow levels diminished. POINT BREEZE WEATHER In subsequent years ahead when runs are made up of multiple year classes of fish the returns and fishing prospects could be even better! 400 Coppers, Divers out 220-240, Riggers down 80-90-100. Then again who would have guessed thered be a few days in the end of March this cold! Most Kings will be spawning or on zombie patrol with the occasional fresher fish. Water color will be on a slow mend. Anchor where the current isnt strong and cast out shrimp. The Tourism Dept has also been busy redesigning an Orleans County Fishing Map Pad (1117) that will be distributed throughout the county. Read more on the Hub. There were bottled up Kings at the mouth of Johnson Creek that now should be spread up thru the waterway. Fresh steelhead chances for late winter, early spring usually means high and stained and cold water challenging drifts. No serious icing yet and all the downstream frog water is open. Mainly with an old school program. More of the up and down temps that weve been experiencing so far this winter. Ron Bierstine, NYS Reimagine the Canals Task Force Member Fishing. On Saturday we had a father and his 2 sons (pictured right) ready for some bonding and good fishing. Hungry post spawn browns like this semi golden male are eager to bite your spoon, plug or fly. Oakridge, Tennessee, United States. The past days, since the weekend, rains and high water has been tough for most. Rain today so far around one half to three qtrs of an inch. 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. Proceeding upstream thru the Oak downstream frog water areas the reports are quieter but I suspect guys are into a decent skein bite. Little to no fishing pressure because of the recent events, with the few anglers out enjoying action like this for early Apr 2020 steelhead in the Oak. 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. Look for flows to stay up with the stained water color. 10 colors of FishUSA Stealthcore and A-TOM-MIK coppers in 150 & 200 took fish. 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. Warm weather forecasted to prevail all week and warmer yet for the upcoming weekend around 70F. Low water, aka an average fall, short leaders, BB shot is not likely to cut it right now for presentations, especially on the Oak. Going SW or just by the nature of the LES bands having moved around, accumulations will be more in different nearby areas. Water color has that swamp headwater tannic stain to it. The imagery will change every 6 months to promote the upcoming fishing season. Check the drift, slow the swing and/or put a longer leader on with some more shot if you want to get in the zone. We continue to lobby for water access on the far side or west side of the Waterport dam hydro pool and the rest of the Oak. Stay informed with the below web page. Capt. Another unseasonably warm day today with chance of showers tonight. 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. 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. Forecast is for slowly warming up thru this week with chance of rain/snow showers mid week and precipitation again for end of week. Many thanks to the Archers Club for opening up the Fall fishing access. That may be a result of the good flows bringing in those steelhead. Thats more typical of what we would have normally seen a month ago. Thats on the ground now and will make for the next spate of water when that melts. Alex found offshore bait, then a couple pockets of fish each day with the bait. Best baits will be small egg patterns; be it flies, rubber eggs or even egg sacs. If an angler arrives at a parking lot and there are several cars, they should consider going to another parking lot. 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. Saturday afternoon we fished 150-200 in water a few miles west of Port. Year-Round Notice: There are mandatory personal flotation device (PFD) zones on the river. The derby runs until Sept 6 and the awards ceremony held at Captain Jacks in Sodus Point (arrive by 3 PM). The king was 32 pounds, 4 ounces and it was a new Grand Prize leader for the derby. Boaters are asked to use the Oak Orchard State Marine Park on the WEST side of the River on Archbald Rd. Flights Vacation Rentals Restaurants Things to do Dusseldorf Tourism; Dusseldorf Hotels; Dusseldorf Bed and Breakfast . Chance of icing in select areas. The other area smaller tribs have slightly high flows with stained visibility of about 1 foot. Fishing Report. Many thanks to local stakeholders for their efforts of securing, feeding and monitoring the fish. The angler was Norbert Samok who was a guest at Eddies Salmon River Lodge. Alex fished 210-240 feet of water and then deeper in 380-400-foot depths and took a mix of mature kings, two-year old salmon, and steelheads. First time fishing on Lake Ontario, Meagan Hardner caught this lake trout on spoons trolled within 10 feet of the bottom, in 50-60 feet of water straight out of Oak Orchard. Egg patterns work best to generate strikes. Chance of rain showers hit and miss thru the end part of the week. "On the Water" Media Group and host, Chris Megan with his film crew from East Falmouth, MA were at the Oak today catching an early brown trout following the morning rainfall. Then it was east most of Saturday, which did not help. Flows are dropping and clearing all around. Lake Erie Steelhead: 2021 Fall Fishing Forecast Divers: 220-240, 400 coppers. Flows in the other area smaller tribs are low and mostly clear with some icy conditions. Any significant precipitation could raise all the trib flows back high and dirty. Fast water spots on the Oak remain open with just some bank ice. Flows in the Oak are high with about 2 ft of visibility. Chance for more downpours thru tonight with strong winds and an advisory forecast thru tomorrow. Flows in the Oak were higher yesterday but expecting that to retreat again toward medium and slightly stained. Suspect some pressure has shifted to other area smaller waterways. 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. 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. Expect water level fluctuations thanks to hydro power operations and whats been a delayed leaf fall. 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. So come get in on the cold water action before the inevitable warmup. Water temps have flirted with 40 F but should slide back with the forecasted colder weather ahead. That could push more fish into the river plume and into the channel. Look for dropping back steelhead from the dam, a few spawning fish and a chance for fresh fish trickling in. Stay tuned and keep tabs on the weather and water flows and get out there when you can. The other area smaller tribs have medium flows and slightly stained water color. Not much precipitation was realized for the past weekend, so all the trib flows are on the drop and clearing for now. There is some downstream frog water action. A couple Lake Ontario newbies became addicted this past weekend. Oak Orchard Tackle & Lodge Made some time to go to the Waterport Dam to check on the water. Look for flows to stay up in the near term falling back probably only to slightly high. Sep 2022 - Present7 months. There is still plenty of snow to melt like in the woods and protected spots and some ice and flooded fields. No serious cold snap is seen in the near term forecast. Thru the past weekend we heard of guys getting steelhead hookups nearer the dam including a few good fish. Nice big fresh King drifting action on the backside of high flows from end of Sept rains. A few guys report their hookups include at least one real good big fish. Please consider submitting one of your images to be featured on the Winter 2022 billboard. They also caught their biggest king at 27-1/2 pounds. Divers fired from 90-115 out on 2.5 settings. Flows in the Oak still humming along at around slightly high and slightly stained. The rain last week triggered runs of fish in nearly all of the tributaries big and small, stocking or no stocking. Fishing report: Weather to negatively impact all fishing opportunities starting Thursday The roller coaster weather ride is continuing to affect area fishing. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Well start out with a warmup and rain or showers then a quick transition to much colder and snow or snow showers Fri/Sat. Try trolling straight out from Sodus Bay west to Ontario searching for kings down 50 over 150 fow. Must be the the cool Bauer and GLoomis spey gear that made it happen for Chuck the Swinger end of Apr 2021! Everything is wide open to fish and its going to take a cold snap to get things iced back up again. High winds and advisory is likely for something like Fri/Sat/Sun. A big precipitation event that blows out the waterways with a resultant drop down to fishable conditions could be just what we need to kick off spring steelhead action. 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. And, a big shout-out and congratulations to Crazy Yankee for winning this past weekends 2021 Niagara Pro Am! By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. ran out of Olcott to fish with his dad aboard the Stalker with Capt. Look for better rivermouth and lower river action each day on cool or wet weather. The previous cold temps sure did clear up the water color with just a nice stain of about 2 ft of visibility. The Olcott pier project is completed for land lubbers there to get back out there or the Oak Orchard piers. #2 of 53 B&Bs / Inns in Dsseldorf. Look for flows all around to continue to drop and clear and we might begin to see some icing at least in the smaller waterways. Flows in the Oak are already on the rise today thanks to increasing overflow water. 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. Be aware the east side Oak Orchard River Point Breeze boat launch is closed for construction (new ramp) so just go the west side launch.. Sunday was a special day. Looks like a nice fishing window right now in those smaller tribs that normally might be frozen up this time of the season. Since its still busy with plenty of Kings around, anglers need to carefully spot the places where the browns are shadowing the Kings. Wrap around Lake Effect Snow after the storm may bring all the snow accumulations north and south about equal anyway. Not a lot of steelhead mentioned yet, but still plenty of time with colder weather ahead to bring on some chrome migrations. Bit of a stalemate in the weather for now with warmish days but below freezing nites. Stephen Shen of STS guide service says: The end of the annual salmon run is coming to an end in the upper salmon river. We finished the day with a few more fish and a memory to last forever. As soon as the levels come down more trout will show up. Looks like all the area trib flows are on the rise from recent showers and continued run off. Buc-A-Roo Charters is recognized as one of the premier charter operations on Lake Ontario. Flows are mod or almost med and mostly clear. No accumulations expected here on the WNY Lake Ontario Plain. So how do you know if trophy trout and salmon will be catchable upon your travels to the Oak Orchard and WNY area? You can check these in your browser security settings. 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. Thru the past weekend we heard of guys getting steelhead hookups nearer the dam including a few good fish. Trout and salmon rely on alewife in particular in the open Lake waters of Lake Ontario. My anglers have been relaying positive feedback from restaurants from the Point thru Albion and Medina. He captured the lead today aboard the Stalker, weighing in at Olcott. Hearing of legit salmon bites and even a few browns too in fast water areas on the Oak. No obvious staged up concentration of staged up fish like at the Bridges. We are in the high season for visiting fisherman so go to. Forecast thru this week remaining after today is for warm temps in the 40sF. It looks like some of the weather we missed out on thru the earlier winter is coming now in the later winter. Another cold snap: cold temps today with highs around 40F. There could be fresh steelhead, fresh silver browns or drop back fish. King salmon are scheduled for release today, that effort under the directive of the local charter community. Other area smaller tribs have low to moderate flows possibly getting a little bit of stain from the most recent precipitation. West side state launch slated to open ASAP. (Deadline for the Open was Monday, 6/7). No icing anywhere and the downstream slow water is wide open. There seems to be a stalemate between the open Lake temps and the trib water temps thanks to the relatively mild winter. Real light fishing pressure today, only one car observed in the parking spots on the Oak. Look for some late fish to come thru but likely not in any great concentrations. No doubt as flows drop and clear even a little guys should get onto more fish, especially brown trout. Or for the fall stay at our new well appointed private ground floor lodge (Garage Lodge) located just 6 miles east on Route 18. Ron Bierstine has wrapped up his stream fishing reports for the season. Late Feb 2018. 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! FREE boat launching until the Spring! Actually that forecast sounds more normal by November standards. Best spoon is a gold laser spook. Capt. Upstream fast water areas should be pretty well open, and there is likely barely any fishing pressure. Click on the different category headings to find out more. I have been fishing my clients from 50-150 ft. Most successful trollers are still a bit off shore at least in the 80+ FOW range or more for best action (pictured below). This is the available info at this time, unless something changes, it will be enforced.. 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 mod in the Oak and low in the smaller waterways. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. Canal water flow managers are likely throttling back any additional Canal releases into the tribs thanks to all the precipitation. Available at Oak Orchard Tackle & Lodge and Narbys. If youre reading this you should be at the right spot on our new fishing conditions page. Furlough was just long enough for a few casts! May 21st is the scheduling for the canal opening. 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. Leaf fall is underway so expect daily water level fluctuations thanks to turbine rack cleaning at the dam. Get the drift or swing down and checked and slowed a bit and you can find a head shaking steelhead on the take. Brown trout reports still about 50% good/50% slow. They will be held out of Oak Orchard. Either way waiting for the mythical lower and clearer conditions for steelhead action may lead to lost chances. Some anglers are spread out like in the other tribs east and west. Fishing Oak Orchard Creek, NY on 2/6/2023 will be best from 12:00AM through 12:00AM, and from 12:00AM to 12:00AM. At 100, temps were 50 (fairly warm to start) and 42 at the end of the day. (Deadline for the Open was Monday, 6/7). Fishing pressure is over-the-all pretty light and manageable. A good WNW wind thru last night probably moved more fish near shore or into the tribs from Lake Ontario but dont look for those fish to loiter in estuary or rivermouth spots at this point in the season. Orleans County has the total package and the Big Fish! Stay tuned though for any future high water that could really perk things up. Fish for bass on Sodus Bay throwing-out worm rigs between the islands at the north end of the bay. 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.. Oak Orchard River mouth mid Apr 2019. 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. Starting this weekend, they will be fishing at the Bar chasing Kings then return to the Oak around Memorial Day as the Kings migrate east. For now trib water temps are on their greatest fall so far this fall season. Anglers started out with a tough bite yesterday but reported better later in the day. The fish are going to turn on and off there so persistence is the name of the game and long and light presentations. Rigger: 65-95 down. On the south end of Newark has been a great place for catching bass. Flows should be back on the retreat already today with some stain hanging on. Best bass spots are downriver around Joseph Davis State Park and Youngstown near Fort Niagara. So well hope that if it stays cold-ish that some more snow will come. More then not, fish are still in good green shape. Weather is seasonable warm today and then forecast winter cold with wind for tomorrow and weekend. Well have to wait and see how much flows will change but it should bring flows up high but not blown. The Fishing Beat: Colder. The weather she is a changing again as has been the case for most of this trib season. We will be searching for a high quality (resolution) photograph in a few months to promote lake fishing in Orleans County. Forecast is for rain ending later today and a couple days of clearing for mid week. Crabs are working off 3-way rigs, as are Ned rigs and swim baits.