
Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – January 28, 2025
We need to break toward some serious melting action for best steelhead chances
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We need to break toward some serious melting action for best steelhead chances

North end is proving to be effective for panfish here. Try using spikes, wax worms, or cut minnows.

Some local anglers are hitting the ice for panfish or pike or walleyes.

Anglers are now ice fishing on all of western New York’s popular inland ice fishing waters.

Ice fishing finally coming to fruition? Here’s a look at the New York fishing and hunting report from across the state on Jan. 16, 2025.

On the Oak, careful drifts of small beads and tipped jigs are yielding some brown trout and steelhead hookups at the dam, downstream holes and frogwater.

Egg sacs, egg flies, trout beads, nymphs and jigs tipped with a grub are good winter offerings here, drifted tight to the bottom.

Yellow perch are showing in the inner Buffalo Harbor and have readily been hitting live minnows.

Ice fishing is on the minds of many across the state. Here’s a look at the New York fishing and hunting report on Jan. 2, 2025.
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