
Lake Erie/Western New York Fishing Report – July 21-28, 2023
The walleye bite is still going strong out of all ports.

The walleye bite is still going strong out of all ports.

Some consistency this past week. Solid week of summer fishing.

Fishing has slowed a bit across the state. Still fish being caught, just not as hot of a bite as a little earlier this summer.

This is a good time to remember Frank Schneider Jr. Until he died in 2005 at the age of 86, Frank was a one-man force on behalf of fishing. Unpaid and unafraid, Frank attended countess

It was the perfect time of year for the method I was employing.
Discarded crayfish shells lined the shallows, and there were a lot of fish looking to feed on the soft-shelled morsels they

We noticed the mayflies in the air at around 10:30 p.m. and within minutes the fish were feeding.
There was a pair that sounded like good ones feeding within earshot – one upstream, one

Spring is a magical time for an angler to be wading in a river.
Summer is a different story. Quality fish are not where I left them in the spring. Conditions change, the fish

Saratoga County resident Alex Ross makes an annual trip to the Salmon River, in Oswego County, N.Y., each fall seeking big salmon and trout as they migrate into the river. Last September, with water levels

When I was a kid, I had to be ready to go fishing on a moment’s notice. Luckily for my brothers and me, we had a milk run that was sure to produce the needed
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