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Lake Ontario and tributaries Bass have been hitting in places like Olcott and Wilson harbors, according to Wes Walker at The Slippery Sinker in Olcott. They’ve also been catching some pike, rock bass and the occasional perch all the way up to the dam at Eighteen Mile Creek. Out in the lake, moss has been

Lake Ontario The lake fishing has picked back up. Chinook salmon and lake trout were being found in 120 feet of water. The brown trout fishing has been good in the morning in shallow water, around 10 feet, and then out to 20 to 50 feet of water as the day gets brighter. Oneida Lake

Cayuga Lake Lake trout were still coming on flasher and fly rigs fished 50 to 120 feet down over 60 to 150 feet of water. Fishing stick baits or spoons from the surface down to 30 feet, in 40 to 100 feet of water was still productive for brown trout and Atlantic salmon. Vertical jigging

Lake Champlain Bass anglers were doing well throughout the lake, with the typical smallmouth action up north and more largemouths in the southern end of the lake. Tube baits were the ticket, as usual, and drop-shot rigs were working well. Anglers continued to report superb lake trout and landlocked salmon fishing, and were pleased with

The strong east wind kept many anglers inshore, but the sea bass fishing was excellent, with limits of 3- to 4-pound sea bass caught on the South Shore artificial reefs, the wrecks from New York Bight to Montauk Point out to 100 feet of water and in Block Island Sound.  Inside the South Shore inlets

Lake George Luke at FISH307.com reports lake trout action continues to be off the charts, most likely a product of last winter when ice anglers never got a good shot at them. With the thermocline at 40 feet, lakers were cruising anywhere from that depth all the way to the bottom, with the catch ratio

John Miller at Bob’s Sport and Tackle in Katonah reports that some big brown trout – they weighed in a pair that topped 10 and 12 pounds recently – are still being taken on the east of Hudson reservoirs (Cross River, Kensico and Croton Falls). The browns are heading into deeper water now, and anglers