Fishing Reports

St. Lawrence River At last check, Wheathouse Bay was yielding decent numbers of walleye. There were also reports of perch and northern pike action at Lake of the Isles, as well as good pike fishing

Lake Ontario and tributaries The only action we’ve heard about since the weather turned cold again was in the tributaries such as Eighteen Mile Creek below Burt Dam. While the water was still a bit

Lake Ontario When conditions allowed, anglers were finding steelhead in some of the tributaries like Maxwell and the Genesee River. Oneida Lake There are anglers getting out around the lake with ice thickness varying from

Honeoye Lake Ice was reportedly between 3 and 4 inches lakewide. Some decent-sized yellow perch have been caught in the deeper areas of the north end. The bluegill bite has been slow in the shallower

Not hearing a lot about any red-hot fishing of late; most of the talk has been about conditions on the heels of the heavy snow earlier this month. In general, there’s plenty of safe ice,

White perch and small stripers were caught in the brackish water canals and creeks leading into the Peconic bays on small jigs, tins and worms. The fishing at times was excellent, with the majority of