oak orchard fishing report 2021

If you catch one, please release it immediately and not harm it. Here on the Niagara Frontier, it was heaviest and there are lesser accumulations south of here. Chance of another mixed bag precip type of storm that could add to whats on the ground already and add to that spate of water when it melts. Look for the past holiday weekend fishing pressure to ease some likely thru this week. Windy too, with rain showers but at least no snow from the latest storm here on the WNY Lake Ontario Plain. We will be searching for a high quality (resolution) photograph in a few months to promote lake fishing in Orleans County. Drifts now will definitely be more productive then a few days ago. Next chance at precipitation or showers is this weekend. 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. The salmon are scattered and after the marks are found, they are not hitting easily. High winds and advisory is likely for something like Fri/Sat/Sun. Greater impacts expected SW of here but the south shore of Lake Ontario may get some accumulations. See our list of charters and guides HERE. 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. On the backside now of higher flows from about a week ago something like med to slightly high flows in the Oak and med in the smaller area waterways. Forecast is mostly clear thru the upcoming week, no significant impact expected from the upcoming east coast storm. From a small boat, drifting treated egg skein is a good approach to try, fished under a float. To view the final results, visit the LOC Derby website. At least flows are stronger which helps combat icing back up. For more information contact the fire station at 35 E. Cayuga St. by calling 315-343-2161. Without any persistent cold or snow or ice hanging in, these precipitation events are going to keep water color on the stained side. Real light fishing pressure today, only one car observed in the parking spots on the Oak. A fall cool down on the backside of the weekend rains is upon us! Copyright 2023 On The Water, LLC. Many thanks to the Archers Club for opening up the Fall fishing access. No prepared food will be served and the Catch and Release Fly Fishing Tourney will not take place for 2021. There were some hook ups thru the past weekend right before this latest rise in flows. Water temps for now are already in the the high 30s F on the Oak and prob going higher with the forecasted warmup thru the end of this week. Capt. They started in 60 feet of water trolling northwest with cut bait and the reel started screaming. That amount of rain would definitely be a good thing. Fishing pressure picking up some at the dam with downstream guys pretty well spread out. Try to anticipate dropping and clearing flows and be on the water when reasonable conditions come together! Service 3.8. Even lucky, old and not pretty casters like the Licorice Man can get in on the early hard striking and fighting fresh King action at the Oak Orchard rivermouth! Rick Hajecki from Crazy Yankee Sportfishing. To obtain a map pad or copy of a map, contact us. Fishing and weather conditions pretty nice by late fall/early winter standards. Sunday, we caught a decent variety: a couple of big salmon, 2 year olds, matures, a steelhead and couple of cohoes. reminds boaters to Not be a fool in the fog and use your radar as they almost had an incident last week while fishing. Welcome to November and better brown trout chances! Other area smaller tribs like Sandy also hanging in with flows about as theyve been, chance for a little more color to the water thanks to the last rain. Look for a bit of a temp shock there and the fishing action back on the rebound as things warm back up. This is the available info at this time, unless something changes, it will be enforced.. This is kind of a reset (at least when it warms back up) and with a return to some more inviting flows and stained water there should be new migrations of spring fish. Use Power Bait shad color 2 inches in length. Expect daily water level fluctuations thanks to leaf fall/wind and hydro power operations. The hope is this cold weather will be a good thing for later winter and spring steelhead action. 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. Best meat rig is a 10 white double crush glow green dot spindoctor, w/an irish thunder twinkie rig behind it. We have a new logo that cleverly looks a lot like the old one! Look for flows to hang in or drop back another notch toward medium in the near term. Fish are still spawning in the typical areas on or near gravel. Flows are moderate to medium and slightly stained at least where you might be able to find a slot with open flows to drift. Many thanks to the Archers Club for opening up the Fall fishing access. That could be the ticket to get some salmon migrations cranking. Its ok and encouraged for out of the area anglers to verify their economic impact for the upstate NY tourism economies! Everyone enjoyed the great hospitality and convenience of the Archers Club and experienced some good fishing. This position resides in the Biological & Environmental Systems Sciences, Energy Science & Technology . Its a semi serious band forecast to set up off Lake Erie. If an angler arrives at a parking lot and there are several cars, they should consider going to another parking lot. Next chance at snow for area wide is for the beginning part of next week. 585-682-4546 (June 12-13) with the King of the Oak (KOTO) on Friday (6/11). Spoons chipped in but flasher/fly and meat rigs were good. Production of hard copies is finished and have been delivered to License Issuing Agents. Lake Alice ice cover is probably days away from going away. Releases may change due to weather and other conditions. The better reports I hear are from guys that have some Kings migrate past them or hold and they get some drifts to them. When flows are reduced temporarily, it reveals pretty good numbers of fish. Stay informed with the below web page. Lots of snow across WNY from an area wide snow. What does the Oak Orchard River, the Lakeshore and other WNY tribs offer? Use caution because the current on the narrow waterway can be dangerous. Flows in the Oak are high and stained with about one foot of visibility. To the east flows are also somewhat higher then typical fall flows with slightly stained water color. Cooling weather and water will also help bring on better brown trout and steelhead action and the area is not likely to suffer thru any more real warm weather now that we are well into October. Before things got too blown up yesterday guys reported some AM pier action. Try to keep at least six (6) feet of distance between you and others. Even after that thru the upcoming weekend I still wouldnt call it cold just seasonably cool and continued dry. The new lodge is convenient to eastern tribs like Sandy Creek. 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. Classic scenario in the Oak where dirty water color lags behind the highest flows. Thanks, Capt. The Tourism Dept has also been busy redesigning an Orleans County Fishing Map Pad (1117) that will be distributed throughout the county. Chance for more downpours thru tonight with strong winds and an advisory forecast thru tomorrow. The Fishing Beat: Colder. Forecast thru this week remaining after today is for warm temps in the 40sF. The last time it was dredged was in 2014. The other area smaller waterways offer as good or better action by virtue of smaller water courses with the fish probably more concentrated. Intrepid anglers are capable of catching fish on the Oak in all of these flows, except for maybe blown AND dirty. Not a lot of fishing pressure just yet, few guys on the piers and at the dam. 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. With cool water temperatures, rig depths of 30 to 80 ft down are getting Troutman 2 anglers kings coho and some whopper lake trout! We, for sure, have the water flows for now! Flows in the Oak are still slightly high and water color has improved with 2 ft of visibility. The canal season for navigation ended October 13th and some sections are being lowered. The beast was part of a triple. Oak Orchard River begin Sept 2020. Look for post spawn browns to be redistributed thru the waterways and the chance for some fresher steelhead. With these colder temps the fish are reasonably hardy, they wont be later on. Any big steelhead this time of the year in relatively warm water are going to be a challenge to land! Anglers seeing and having hook up success on browns is encouraging we are likely on a trajectory to out pace last years brown trout action already. Its unknown how much longer Canal drainage flows will last but it likely is not that long. 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 may well all blow out after this latest round of precipitation. Flows consist of lots of turbine water and overflow water that started to come back up for the end of the past weekend. jwplayer("jwp-outstream-unit").setup({}); Report is Courtesy of the Oswego County Department of Community Development, Tourism and Planning. Check the Canal schedule for duration. 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. Salmon Fishing at Waterport Dam Daily Update Oak Orchard River survivalbracelet Kits 2.79K subscribers Subscribe 2.2K views 2 years ago Salmon fishing at Waterport dam on Oakorchard river. These numbers represent just some of the total number of salmonids (brown trout too!) Canal water flow managers are likely throttling back any additional Canal releases into the tribs thanks to all the precipitation. For now, flows in the Oak are moderate and slightly stained and no icing. Most anglers report good fishing. Many thanks to local stakeholders for their efforts of securing, feeding and monitoring the fish. Proceeding upstream thru the Oak downstream frog water areas the reports are quieter but I suspect guys are into a decent skein bite. Register now and see your name at the top of the list! Stay informed with the below web page. Flow conditions right now are more like nice steelhead water and higher then typical fall flows. The longer range forecast looks like back to colder for rest of next week. Looks like a good head of turbine water with overflow levels diminished. Flows in the Oak are high and stained with about 1 foot of visibility. We had higher then average Fall water flows previously and theres good likelihood well have higher then average late Winter water flows in the near future or even thru the Spring. Catch it back on the drop with that slightly high and slightly stained flow and find fresh fish scattered thru the River, esp upstream areas. Other area smaller tribs are med to slightly high and dirty. More tributary anglers are invited to help with feeding the fish and cleaning the pens. Slightly high and stained flows make for good drifting chances after all the high and dirty. 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! Spin Doctor, Chrome, Crush UV, 2 face with an Atomic purple mirage behind it. Registration is only open for KOTO at Ernsts Lake Breeze Marina. The temps are returning to seasonably after a few days of a heatwave along with high winds. Fishing pressure light and angler reports thin. Maxwell has a better flow; however, it is still plugged-up at the mouth. For more information, visit our website at visitoswegocounty.com and click on the Fishing Report along the top bar on the home page. Here we are into November with cooler temps and on the backside of higher flows. Sacs are working for trout and skein is the ticket for salmon. And, a big shout-out and congratulations to Crazy Yankee for winning this past weekends 2021 Niagara Pro Am! Some rain showers and gloom and breezy conditions today (Tuesday). 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. Colder temps could bring back some icing conditions especially in the smaller waterways if lower flows prevail. The rest of the Oak, like after the confluence, were high water fishable by at least this past Sunday thru about yesterday as the overflow levels diminished. Flows in Johnson Creek for sure up and even stained from a pretty good shot of water. At the Waterport Dam, its reported there are just a few fish and likely none holding in downstream fast water runs or holes. Bob! Fishing pressure is real light again on the Oak so far today. Stay at the shop lodge (Licorice Lodge) close to the Oak Orchard River fishing action! Courtesy Ron Bierstine, Only a smattering of anglers spread out in the Oak and other area tribs finding good salmon action for fish spread from rivermouth areas all the way upstream to fast water spots. Flows in the Oak are about medium and slightly stained with about 2 ft of visibility. Captain Mikes recommendation is using mainly a flasher fly bite yellow flashers, blue green flies. Water temps on Port Bay are in the high 70s and autumn is the time fish start gobbling food. Definitely on the moderate side of medium and not on the slightly high side of medium. No big concentration of fish in any one spot that we know of, except for the stranded for now overflow fish. Flows in the Oak down just a touch, maybe some of that love from Canal water being shared with Johnson Creek is responsible for that. Slower action there reported just lately after some good quality fish were hooked in the previous higher and dirtier water color. 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. A few civilian small boat trollers noted in the near shore/good looking/semi stained waters off Point Breeze. It was getting a bit frustrating so since it was a short trip we worked our way back to the nose and started fishing for lake trout. This entices more brown trout and steelhead to enter and remain in these waterways, improving fish spawning conditions and expanding angling opportunities. The other area smaller tribs have med to slightly high flows with slightly stained water color. Evereything in the Oak remains open and fishable. Fish have been taking mostly spoons with a few meat and flasher/fly mixed in. Anglers out over the past weekend reported a few hook ups on some steelhead by working different spots in the river. Team Screamer (pictured below) won the PRO division with a score of 447.19 and Team Roll With It won the Amateur division with 257.77 points (also pictured below). The charter fleet has had king salmon action in 100-120 FOW using chrome glow flasher fly combinations down to 60 ft. Chance of rain and colder temps and windy conditions for the end of the week but back to relatively mild temps again by the weekend. It has been closed to traffic for construction since late April. 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! Call 585-682-4546 or email document.getElementById("eeb-573343-278334").innerHTML = eval(decodeURIComponent("%27%69%6e%66%6f%40%66%69%73%68%6f%61%6b%6f%72%63%68%61%72%64%2e%63%6f%6d%27"))*protected email* for a reservation ASAP! Watch for that high and stained water flow and hit it as soon as you can. IMO one nice silver fish is worth a whole bunch old upstream darkies. Zane Smith of New Brighton PA with new LOC-leading salmon at 32.4-pounds. Warm temps are forecast today and tomorrow and seasonable thru the beginning part of the weekend. Waiting for supposed better conditions could mean missing out and finding even worse water conditions later on. Photo courtesy of Mike Lavender. Guys kept fishing, especially in the turbine channel (flows can only get so high). Bass action is spotty. It includes a county map with the designated public fishing access points and boat ramps, tackle & bait shops, marinas and popular fish species of Orleans County. Water temps had bumped up into the 40sF and the ice on Lake Alice is gone. 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. Theres been on and off good action like at the Archers Club and some Kings continue to drop back from the dam. Water color has improved to about 1 plus feet of visibility. With no real winter to come out of and trib and open lake water temps all on the warmer side, who knows for sure how the steelhead gods will play things out over the next couple months?! Ground flow recharge from strong supplies might keep things up a little higher then typical winter levels but never-the-less things will be icing in or freezing up except for a few fast water slots. The 12th Annual Women Conquering Outdoors Adventures is set for Sept. 11 at the North Forest Rod and Gun Club in Lockport, Call Colleen Gaskill at 628-9023 for more info. Fishing pressure is real light with one or two guys reporting a few fresher looking steelhead hooked up. Oak Orchard Creek Oswego River Salmon River N.Y. FLOW DATA (Lake Erie) Buffalo Creek Cattaraugus Creek Cayuga Creek N.Y. FLOW DATA (Lake Ontario) Genesee River Oswego River MICHIGAN WEATHER Au Sable River Little Manistee River Muskegon River Pere Marquette River MICHIGAN FLOW DATA Au Sable River Manistee River Pere Marquette River Sign up for our FREE Fishing Reports Today! John Troutman Oravec from Tightlines Charters, https://www.facebook.com/robert.songin.9/videos/412662933560159. Early Mar 2022 starting from last fall, thru the winter (weather permitting) and lasting until May! For now the drifting conditions are pretty nice all around. We have also been catching fish from 25-70 down. Cooler temps for end of week and upcoming weekend. So, flows, weather and fishing action are somewhat up and down. Capt. Bro-Weekend was a success for the Meyer family from Eastern PA and NJ (pictured below)! Other area smaller tribs have low to moderate flows possibly getting a little bit of stain from the most recent precipitation. Temps are on the mild side, dropping down some at night and thru today and over the next part of the week we are getting some melt off which should be good for maintenance. DEC has received a few reports of dead fish on Sandy Creek and Johnson Creek, likely due to fishing mortality, but has not received any reports of abnormally large numbers of dead fish from Oak Orchard Creek. Classic drifting, not so much. They fished a little west of port between the 27-29 lines of latitude. If theres significant rain ahead of or instead of the ice/snow, then trib flows could be on the rise and going off color. Low water, aka an average fall, short leaders, BB shot is not likely to cut it right now for presentations, especially on the Oak. The other area smaller tribs have a fair amount of icing. Some Lake Effect Snow showers has amounted to a few more inches of fluffy accumulation on top of the 1-2 ft previous snow. Water color was stained with probably greater then a foot but less then 2 feet of viz. New York State is open for fishing and DEC encourages anglers to recreate locally at a nearby waterbody. A little more rivermouth action now. Its all about water flows Water flows are the single biggest factor in encouraging upstream movements of fish during the fall, winter and spring trib seasons. Flows in the Oak were higher yesterday but expecting that to retreat again toward medium and slightly stained. The working mans big trout and salmon trip is still here, and its not even a contest compared to the other exotic, far off angling destinations. Port Bay water is very warm and there has been weed growth near the south end. Those fish should be somewhere in the system and may be spread out now farther upstream. Tough time of the year for any serious drying out since everything will wind up essentially as runoff. Chance of legitimate winter weather and temps coming on by next week. This weeks Picture of the Week comes fromMike Gragers crew from Get Hooked Sportfishing. Guys may wind up on the Oak after finding icing conditions otherwise. 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. 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. Widewaters is never drawn-down and is the hot spot for bass this time of year. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: Click to subscribe to Orleans Countys Weekly Fishing Report (written by Ron). The late summer bites have been with spoons and flasher-flies. Recent precipitation for now probably not enough to keep flows any higher then low-ish when Canal water is ended. Warmer temps here tempered some by cooling lake breezes. Definitely breaking toward Spring so get those cold water steelhead drifts in while you can. The angler was Norbert Samok who was a guest at Eddies Salmon River Lodge. Flows in the Oak are slightly high with something now approaching 2 feet of viz. Water color is one foot of visibility or less. We had our bites but we could not get them to stick. Real light fishing pressure except for a few guys fishing nearer the dam and they have been getting hook ups. 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.

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