Fishing Reports

Lake Ontario and tributaries In the streams, Eighteen Mile Creek at Burt Dam is still your best bet when it comes to tributary action. Water was still low and clear at last check, but that

Lake Ontario Nothing to report now. Oswego River Fishing has slowed but there are steelhead and brown trout being caught in the river. Drift boat anglers have been doing better with the higher water. Good

Canandaigua Lake Nothing to report right now. Cayuga Lake Yellow perch were being taken in the north end on fathead minnows. Landlocked salmon were being caught on the lake from the surface down to about

Right now there is a little trapping, small-game and predator hunting going on in the region, but most sportsmen and women waiting for first ice to hit the hard water. At last check, that hasn’t

The blackfish action remained excellent right up to the end of the 2012 season on Dec. 14, with blackfish between 6 and 8 pounds pool winners on open and charter boats, and common on private

Not much happening now that deer season has ended and ice fishing has yet to become an option.

Nothing to report. A few anglers were getting out, but most are awaiting hard water.

Not a lot of fishing happening right now, with the exception of a few diehards on some of the better weather days. That said, the Beaverkill and Willowemoc were clear and wadeable at last look.

St. Lawrence River Some perch and pike action, but most folks are waiting for safe ice. Black Lake Nothing to report right now. Ice fishing shouldn’t be too far down the road, but Mother Nature