Fishing Reports

Lake Ontario and tributaries Many of the streams were high and muddy at last check, and the ice was posing a bit of a problem along the shoreline. Burt Dam and Eighteen Mile Creek was

Oneida Lake Anglers were getting out around the lake, with ice thickness varying from 5-11 inches. Use caution when venturing out and check ice thickness frequently. Anglers were getting some good perch and walleye, Chapman

Honeoye Lake Ice was reportedly between 3 and 5 inches thick late last month. Anglers were catching some nice yellow perch at depths over 20 feet, on jigs with a waxworm or spike. The bluegill

Anglers were still plying the waters of Lake Champlain, primarily for perch but also for northern pike in some areas of the big lake and the occasional walleye in South Bay. Smelt action in Bulwagga

The extremely windy weather experienced kept many of the cod and sea bass boats inshore. But those that did venture out continued to report excellent bottom fishing from the artificial reefs out to the wrecks

Lake George’s popular bays were yielding, at times, good numbers of keeper-sized perch, as well as the occasional laker that tops the lake’s 23-inch size minimum. It remains to be seen how well the ice