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AMERY AREA The wind really chewed up the ice that remained on most area lakes. Unless it gets extremely cold throughout the week, there’s a good chance some lakes will be completely open by this

DOOR PENINSULA AND ALGOMA/KEWAUNEE AREA The ice is pretty much gone for the most part throughout the Door County Peninsula and now everyone has switched gears to the open-water opportunities that are almost endless here

LAKE MICHIGAN/METRO AREA LAKES Water in the Port Washington harbor and in Sauk Creek was murky after the area received heavy rainfalls. Conditions should improve as weather stabilizes. Brown trout and occasional steelhead have been

St. Lawrence River: Not hearing much now as we transition between ice and open water. Black Lake: No report.

Pocket porgies (Suffolk County) ECOs Kevin Holzle and Jordan Doroski, while on patrol in Mattituck, observed four people fishing on the east jetty of Mattituck Creek. After watching them for approximately 15 minutes, and watching

Season Dates April 1: Trout, landlocked salmon, kokanee seasons open April 1: Winter flounder season opens April 1: Striped bass season opens (Hudson River, north of George Washington Bridge) April 7: Beaver and otter trapping

Lake Ontario and tributaries: The spring fishing action should be picking upby now. Water temperatures were starting to heat up in the lake as stream outflows were nearing the 40-degree mark, according to Wes Walker

Many of the dock structures at DEC launches are not in yet, so be prepared to launch without them. Lake Ontario: Look for steelhead in the tributaries and try egg sacs or orange glo bugs