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Lake Ontario and tributaries: Some mature kings are being caught while staging off creek mouths in as shallow as 40 feet of water first thing, according to Wes Walker at The Slippery Sinker. Fish can be caught out as deep as 100-foot depths or deeper for mature kings. Karen Evarts of The Boat Doctors suggests

Lake Ontario: Salmon were still deep and were being caught 100 to 130 feet down over 400 to 500 feet of water. Oneida Lake: Some walleye were being taken in 30 to 40 feet of water with stick baits, blade baits (gold or fire tiger), bucktail jigs tipped with nightcrawlers, and worm harnesses. Bass fishing

Cayuga Lake: Not hearing anything on the heels of the big Elite Series bass tournament. Seneca Lake: Fleas have been less of an issue of late, but weed mats were still making trolling difficult. Lake trout continued to be found over a variety of depths, but trolling spoons, or flasher and flies (green has been

Cool August weather has kept water temperatures down on the West Branch of the Ausable River and set the stage for some outstanding September fishing. The folks at the Hungry Trout Fly Shop report fishing has been very good on Isonychia patterns and large attractor dry flies. Double nymph rigs using stonefly and pheasant tails

The snapper fishing remained excellent, with fish in the 8- to 10- inch range widespread, with a few topping 12 inches. The snappers are everywhere you can fish. Small tins, spearing fished under poppers and snapper poppers all worked well, as did small crease flies fished on a fly rod. A thin stream of bunker