New Fall Fishing Program Orleans County Tourism 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. Other area smaller tribs east and west are coming back into slightly high and stained flows. 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. Flows in the other area smaller tribs are low and mostly clear with some icey conditions. Likely there are some steelhead in the Oak now and the drift conditions remain challenging to get on them. Second season trout action now with light fishing pressure and still reasonable weather with all kinds of water to fish seems like the name of the game right now! Sandy Creek is probably remaining stubbornly stained from that Canal drainage but definitely dropping back some. Look for your fishing window sooner then later whenever reasonable conditions come together. More fish are holding and staging now in fast water areas below the dam. Releases may change due to weather and other conditions. 10 colors of FishUSA Stealthcore and A-TOM-MIK coppers in 150 & 200 took fish. Upcoming weekend warm up should keep things open and we might be looking at some more serious icing and retreating flows after that for next week. Good luck, guys! Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. We will be searching for a high quality (resolution) photograph in a few months to promote lake fishing in Orleans County. 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. Flows are plenty high enough to hide fish and encourage fresh fish migrations. Another chance of precipitation for begin part of upcoming weekend although at this point the greater impact is forecasted south of the area. 2021. Most fish came from 50-90 down (44 degrees to 60-degree water) under 74-degree surface waters. We changed the name from Orleans Outdoor to Oak Orchard Tackle & Lodge going on 3 years ago! Thru the past weekend we heard of guys getting steelhead hookups nearer the dam including a few good fish. All non club members are reminded to act as courteous and responsible guests so that we may all enjoy the fishing access there now and in the future. Strong upstream headwater supplies are likely driving the water feed below the dam. The fair action now is hopefully a good sign for action yet to come thru Feb/Mar. All the trib flows are on the retreat from the last rain. If your image isnt chosen for the billboard, we will consider using it in the 2022 OC Fishing Guide. Rick Hajecki from Crazy Yankee Sportfishingreminds boaters to Not be a fool in the fog and use your radar as they almost had an incident last week while fishing. Nothing new about that for steelhead angling! Put a 10+ lb. Classic scenario in the Oak where dirty water color lags behind the highest flows. Could be guys were finding easier fishing flows on the smaller waterways. Rigger: 65-95 down. 585-682-4546 We went past 300 but found the 250-300 was better. The next significant rise in flows may bring on some fresh steelhead action thru March. A few Kings now are in a spawning mode and likely with the next consistent cool down, therell be a whole lot more. Its situated parallel to the Thruway so its visible from both directions. Think something like flows going from low to not so low. Flows in Johnson Creek for sure up and even stained from a pretty good shot of water. You could help give them their last meal! All the trib flows are on the retreat from the last rain. Chance for more downpours thru tonight with strong winds and an advisory forecast thru tomorrow. Since we are not getting cold temps and/or snow, hopefully we can get rain along with the warm temps to help maintain flows. A good day might be a couple of hookups with a steelhead thrown in. A couple days of warm temps and some rain yesterday has the trib flows up and rolling again! Not hearing of much lower river and rivermouth action as probably the bulk of Kings are more upstream now. I would doubt we are heading toward any kind of blow out, but a little stain to the water would sure be a good thing too. Stay tuned tho for any future high water that could really perk things up. The brown trout action in nearby tribs that was pretty good is a little slower lately thanks to the lower and clearer flows. Theres still good numbers of fish higher in the Oak watercourse nearer the dam. As we started getting into 90-100 we noticed a ton of bait and big fish on the bottom. Warm weather is forecast under windy conditions over the next couple days and cooling down for the weekend. Low water, aka an average fall, short leaders, BB shot is not likely to cut it right now for presentations, especially on the Oak. See more info at www.loc.org/leaderboard-current. Winter and cold and snow is hanging in. to the leaders in the 1st leg of the King of the Oak Series the Condor Memorial as well as the winning teams from the feature tournament . A little rise in flows and some stain to the water makes for a willing biter with this nearly 20 pound hen steelhead. Most fishing pressure has been to the east but even now that has started to ease up some. There were salmon porpoising around the green can and the red can. Flows in the other area smaller tribs are low and mostly clear with some icy conditions. Thank you to the DEC, the volunteers and especially Ernsts Lake Breeze Marina for the use of their boat slips/docks this Spring. Dsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Monthly Weather | AccuWeather Lakeshore conditions should likewise be wide open if any hardware chuckers were so inclined to make some casts. Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report - October 14, 2021 by OTW Staff October 14, 2021 Gary and Charlie Tharaldson with a couple of nice keepers from their annual father-son trip to the Salmon River. Oak Orchard, Sandy i Salmon Creek, vor avea debite mai mari. Before things got too blown up yesterday guys reported some AM pier action. Water temps have remained downright cool late into this season despite up and down flows. 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. Nice fresh hard fighting chrome in the Oak on the backside of the late winter high and dirty flows. Since 1/4 inch of rain did not do much it looks like 1/2 inch or more of rain in a storm or otherwise would be needed to effect any positive change in flows. PDF Oak Orchard Creek Update - canals.ny.gov For now, flows in the Oak are moderate and slightly stained and no icing. A couple of reports thru yesterday mentioned some hook ups on smaller browns and steelhead. Those chances should only improve with cooler weather. Releases may change due to weather, engineering controls and other conditions. reminds boaters to Not be a fool in the fog and use your radar as they almost had an incident last week while fishing. A few leftover coho and browns are in the system too. 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. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. (function(){var ml="k0of4rsdc%ainhm. Early Mar 2022 starting from last fall, thru the winter (weather permitting) and lasting until May! Now some silver browns hooked up too, as has been the case on the smaller tribs like to the east. Downstream frog water areas are all open with no icing conditions yet. There were a few Monday morning oh-dark thirty hook-ups at the Oak Orchard Rivermouth. There could be fresh steelhead, fresh silver browns or drop back fish. Now quietly too a few guys are reporting better action. There was some water level fluctuations yesterday thanks to hydropower operations and when the water was down briefly a fair amount of fish were seen in the upstream areas. For now on the Oak, anglers seem to be hooking up on a few steelhead nearest the dam that came along with the higher flows of a few weeks ago mixed in with a handful of fresh fish trickling in thru the downstream fast water. The canal season for navigation ended October 13th and some sections are being lowered. Avoid close contact, such as shaking hands, hugging, and kissing. The full moon that was maybe responsible for the uptick in migrations just recently is now on the wane. All our boat ramps are open. Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. 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. The new lodge is convenient to eastern tribs like Sandy Creek. Dont wait for Apr and ask if the steelhead are in yet! Herring Twinkie Fly rigs fooled some big uns! Slightly cooler forecast for the upcoming weekend and hopefully the serious cold is a goner! If you want to help for salmon we can direct you to the contacts for that effort. 3 spinners to catch a fair number of smallmouth bass earlier this week. Flows are something like med to slightly high with 1 2 ft of visibility. Flows can fluctuate by several feet in a short period of time. A few more lake trout have shown up in the river to do their spawning ritual. Thanks, Capt. In our fishing conditions tabs below we use a simple system to describe the water flows on the Oak and oftentimes other area smaller trib flows too. 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. Production of hard copies is finished and have been delivered to License Issuing Agents. The better reports I hear are from guys that have some Kings migrate past them or hold and they get some drifts to them. Future near term forecast will not make for any new ice. Captain Ron long ago decided he wanted to provide the premier experience for his clients so . 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. Oak Orchard Fishing Report - Facebook That consistency the Oak is known for is showing thru once again. To the west at Johnson Creek, flows are medium and mostly clear with reports of some brown trout hookups. On the dates not included above both before and after anglers can still fish any of the water adjacent to the Archers Club but access will have to be by walking and wading from downstream at the Park Ave Ext Fishing Trail or from upstream at the Waterport dam. With the flows observed today anglers should be able to cover all the fishy water pretty effectively. Fishing Times for Oak Orchard Creek near Albion, New York Darker and some old moldy salmon are still around. Chance of some fresh steelhead migrations all around now and going forward. Any new precipitation could likewise bring those flows back up and dirty. 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. Another dose of spring feeling is in the air on a slight warmup forecast for this week! Well just have to wait and see if itll be a hard and fast melt or something a little more moderate and gradual. So how do you know if trophy trout and salmon will be catchable upon your travels to the Oak Orchard and WNY area? This weeks fishing report was provided by, This weeks Lake fishing report is from Capt. Theres been on and off good action like at the Archers Club and some Kings continue to drop back from the dam. Since then, the Douglaston Salmon Run has reported salmon entering the river on a consistent basis. OAK ORCHARD Fishing Report 2023 | United States The other area smaller tribs I have not laid eyes on directly and should have something like medium flows. Hard copies can be requested by emailing FWFish@dec.ny.gov. Rainfall amounts may be 0.5 0.75 inch and little to no snow accumulation expected. The area received a few inches of wet snow and sleet thru the end of the past week. The lower flows will concentrate the available fish in a few good lies or gravel spots. 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. Mid week at dawn 1 for 2 with this nice fresh hen landed at the Oakrivermouth. The Oak Orchard Harbor is in the process of being dredged which started last week (8/25) and is expected to be finished in mid September. Theres a change afoot soon with the forecast ahead for the end of week and weekend going colder with a chance of mixed bag precipitation. All the trib flows look on the retreat from previous snowmelt and precipitation. Mike Grager from Get Hooked Sportfishing provided us with this weeks picture of the week from April 8th. 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. The other area smaller tribs have med or slightly high and stained flows. Cool if not coldish temps forecast thru this week with rain showers. Fishing pressure is light all around and no significant icing conditions are hindering drifting chances. Check out the dandy nice big brown below Jonathan Halpert and Big Kevs Guide Service found on the Oak yesterday along with more hook ups. Thru this weekend flows are prob more agreeable for better drifts but the water color is worse so there could be tougher action. 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. Try to anticipate dropping and clearing flows and be on the water when reasonable conditions come together! For more details including payouts, visit their website. 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. Oak Orchard River Salmon Fishing October 21, 2020 - YouTube A fair amount of weeds are being discharged, especially noticeable in downstream areas. Especially with the way the weather is proceeding. The parking donation will be $10 per car. Remember you still have to get out and fish Come experience great fishing as it takes place instead of solely relying and waiting on internet reports. Stay tuned and keep tabs on the weather and water flows and get out there when you can. No lunch will be offered and no fly fishing tourney will be held. Jeremy Sage from, Captain John Oravec from Tight Lines Charters, Capt. Port Bay water is very warm and there has been weed growth near the south end. Rivermouth action has been slow to start but might be picking up as near shore waters cooled down a touch after couple days of med E winds. Thanks to the abrupt cold and snow and wind all the tribs are essentially frozen in. Anglers fishing from boats should be able to maintain at least six feet of distance between one another. Then the hit and misses kept on coming. Look for slowly dropping flows all around back to the baseline Canal and normal run of the river contributions. Any significant precipitation or melt off or runoff could bring all the trib flows right back high and off color again. Through Operation Injured Soldiers, Captains Mike Grager, Mike Lavender and Bob Eder took 12 wounded veterans fishing and enjoyed 2 days on Lake Ontario. 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. If an angler is fishing upstream, they should fish downstream of the other angler or consider fishing another day. Flows in the Oak are slightly high with something now approaching 2 feet of viz. Anchor where the current isnt strong and cast out shrimp. After several days of strong west winds both charter and Rec boats got back out. Flows in the Oak are responding nicely to a few days of previous cold with dropping and clearing. So much for the hope of drying out some. At the Oak Billboard on the NYS Thruway. Temps are forecast on a slow warmup over the next few days thru mid and end next week with another chance at precip later next week. Theres no significant icing anywhere that we are aware of. Now for the mid week, its warmed up again! Stay tuned! Forecast ahead is for a mid week warmup with chance of rain or showers end of week and then sharply cooler for the weekend. Some persistent casting in the low light or at night periods should provide chances for hard strikes and good fights. While enjoying the outdoors, please continue to follow theCDC/New York State Department of Health guidelines(leaves DECs website) for preventing the spread of colds, flu, and COVID-19: When fishing, DEC recommends avoiding busy waters andfollowing the guidelines on DECs website about fishing responsibly in New York State. 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. Plenty of salmon are spawning now in the higher flows and some of the post spawn zombies will be flushed out along with lots of other weeds and debris. What more could you ask for for small area trib action!? The bend in the rod didnt feel like an average steelhead and we were thinking a decent king salmon was on the line. Spring will offer up only so many cold water chances! Real light fishing pressure today, only one car observed in the parking spots on the Oak. 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. Icing conditions should accelerate especially in the smaller waterways Will know more about how anglers have been hooking up as we catch back up on the fishing chatter. Photo courtesy of Mike Lavender. Some Lake Effect Snow showers has amounted to a few more inches of fluffy accumulation on top of the 1-2 ft previous snow. It is unknown for now if it will be enough to completely open up all the waterways. Fish are still spawning in the typical areas on or near gravel. A little more precipitation from the end of the past weekend and beginning part of this week has bumped up the trib flows slightly. Now some silver browns hooked up too, as has been the case on the smaller tribs like to the east. The salmon are running in New York State - EnviroPolitics Theres no part of the driftable or castable or swingable waterway that is frozen over. Fishing on the bays has been excellent. Production of hard copies is finished and have been delivered to License Issuing Agents. Other area smaller waterways are at about medium level and back on the clearing to slightly stained from the past weekend rain. Dsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Weather Forecast, with current conditions, wind, air quality, and what to expect for the next 3 days. Hair jigs and worm harnesses fished off 3-way rigs is the way to go. Look for flows to stay up in the near term falling back probably only to slightly high. Flows for now are slightly high or maybe one click less consisting of all turbine water at 2+ feet of visibility. Those fish should be somewhere in the system and may be spread out now farther upstream. Reports of good King and some trout action at Burt 18 Mile Creek. They caught this 29# salmon earlier this week, their biggest catch of the year! Fishing Report Orleans County Tourism Patience and persistence on the Oak may finally be paying off. Flows in the Oak are about medium and barely stained with about 2 feet of visibility for now. Look for flows in the Oak to go from the slightly high flows we have now to med and 2 3 ft of visibility. 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. Other area smaller tribs are dropping back like the Oak to low but may be hanging on to a little more color.
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