Bill Hilts Jr.

With New York’s salmon fishing being as good as it’s been in 2024, there are a few diehard salmon fishermen who have taken fishing to a new level by jig fishing for kings. Isaac Nowak of Brockport is one of those anglers who has accepted the challenge.
“For area identification we would use the typical salmon ports to the west that usually hold large numbers of salmon for the summer,” says Nowak. “Ports like Wilson, Olcott, the Oak, and Sandy (creek) should all be very productive.”

Capt. Ned Librock of Catching Dreams Charters has been taking kids with cancer fishing in the productive waters of New York State for nearly a decade now.
On August 2, he made more kids happy as he held the Third Annual Reel Impact Tournament to benefit his Catching Dreams initiative and help support the program through sponsor boats in the lower Niagara River. This time around, 15 area charter captains helped the cause by taking sponsors and their guests on the water. There were a few special kids accompanying sponsoring teams, too.
In the end, it was an outstanding day of fishing and fun as some 236 fish were caught in 4 hours.