Look for slowly dropping flows all around back to the baseline Canal and normal run of the river contributions. All weigh-ins will be at the Black North Inn by 3 PM. We recommend wearing cleats and to always be careful crossing. Evereything in the Oak remains open and fishable. This up and down would be mostly unnoticed under ice cover anyway, except for on the Oak. Nice to see some chances spread thru the watercourse now with fish that are all mostly in good shape. All the trib flows will be on the rise and melting and probably going off color. Especially with the way the weather is proceeding. Flows in the other smaller waterways are about medium and slightly stained, likely offering up a nice fishable window for now. Some big steelhead are still in the Oak! After several days of strong west winds both charter and Rec boats got back out. The other area smaller tribs have good looking med and slightly stained flows for now and likewise should be dropping back toward mod or lower and clearer. 1764 Oak Orchard Rd (Rte. Port Bay water is very warm and there has been weed growth near the south end. The other area smaller tribs comparitively to the Oak anyway, have better looking flows at low to mod and slightly stained viz. The other area smaller tribs have a fair amount of icing. By most accounts if youre moving around and trying different drifts and spots, guys are hooking up. The presentation is not that technical, just look for favorable winds and water color. There was a little bit of snow showers too that is melting off today. Less noticeable will be in Sandy since Canal flows there are throttling up. A beautiful 15 lb steelhead had hit the deck. All the trib flows are on the retreat from the last rain. Sacs are working for trout and skein is the ticket for salmon. Thru the past weekend we heard of guys getting steelhead hookups nearer the dam including a few good fish. If you catch one, please release it immediately and not harm it. Fishing pressure light and angler reports thin. Flows in the Oak are restored thru the turbine channel. No icing anywhere and the downstream slow water is wide open. Forecast is continued warm thru tomorrow with chance of precipitation end of day or later tomorrow. Expect daily water level fluctuations this time of the year because of leaf fall and wind. Cool if not coldish temps forecast thru this week with rain showers. To the west, theres not a lot of recent reports but flows should be more like moderate to medium and going toward clear. Spring spoon casting action for brown trout at the pier heads and lakeshore when wind and waves come together to bring that semi stained water within casting range. $25,000 Grand Prize for the largest salmon. Our best spoons were Geezer, UV Watermelon, Midnight Special, Wonderbread, and 42nd. Starting Tues, Sept. 7th, the Orleans County Boat Launch at the end of Ontario Street (east side of the river) will be closed for reconstruction. Otherwise its a little tough to report on average fishing conditions. Thanks to losing the Canal feed/winter drainage, flows in the Oak are real low. Come on out and get in on some trophy action this fall, winter and spring and add to the photo collection! On the Oak guys are getting brown trout hook ups each day with that action seeming to heat up as the fresh salmon action begins to cool down. The more the water temps drop, the more active the trout will become. Look for more fish going to gravel on the no doubt water temp warm up this week. Ground flow recharge from strong supplies might keep things up a little higher then typical winter levels but never-the-less things will be icing in or freezing up except for a few fast water slots.
Stream Conditions - Fish Oak Orchard A dropping and clearing water scenario is a contrast for what youd rather see as rising or high flows for best chances at fresh fish migrations. This area will be on the far end of it. Upcoming weekend warm up should keep things open and we might be looking at some more serious icing and retreating flows after that for next week. Spring will offer up only so many cold water chances! Try to keep at least six (6) feet of distance between you and others. If an angler is fishing upstream, they should fish downstream of the other angler or consider fishing another day. Chance of rain/snow showers for the mid part of this week with forecasted mixed bag precipitation of rain, sleet and snow thru the end part of the week. Oak Orchard River Salmon Fishing October 21, 2020 2,550 views Oct 21, 2020 21 Dislike Share Save survivalbracelet Kits 2.78K subscribers Oak Orchard River Salmon Fishing October 21, 2020. Your email address will not be published. Flows yesterday in the AM were down but did rebound nicely to the mod or almost med flows weve had this season. Weather is seasonal for now with highs in the 30sF and dropping back at night forecast thru the mid week. Here we are into November with cooler temps and on the backside of higher flows. Best spoon on the riggers: DW Gold Laser Spoon. Its unknown if flows will stay as low as I saw today on recon, but likely flows will remain real low or optimistically may go up to less low. Water color has that swamp headwater tannic stain to it. Its all about water flows Water flows are the single biggest factor in encouraging upstream movements of fish during the fall, winter and spring trib seasons. Seems like the Kings just arent concentrated in any particular fast water spot in any trib and thats the tougher reports I hear from guys. Stay tuned and keep tabs on the weather and water flows and get out there when you can. Your email address will not be published. Look for cooperative wind and wave action now and thru mid week with chance for higher wind forecast at the end of the week and subsequent tougher dirtier water chances. This latest rain has come uncharacteristically from the east so to the west may be in slightly better shape then to the east. Keep informed about 2021 canal hours. There are miles of water for fish to be dropping back from compared to about only a short mile of Oak water. Those fish should be somewhere in the system and may be spread out now farther upstream. Flows should be back on the retreat already today with some stain hanging on. There is some downstream frog water action. A nice mid week weather period now after the holiday weekend with clear and warm days forecast today and tomorrow.
OAK INN DUESSELDORF - Apartment Hotel Reviews - Tripadvisor There is some icing up in spots but theres still drifting slots to be found.
Fishing Report Orleans County Tourism It was the biggest steelhead that the man had caught and was excited to say the least. Over all though, the brown trout action on the Oak is tough. Nice fresh hard fighting chrome in the Oak on the backside of the late winter high and dirty flows. Traxstech Corporation Warrior Lures Sport Fishing Products. Dont be afraid to start targeting the warmer water many kings will hold and 60 to 67 water this time of year. Shoreline casting action Apr and May for hungry brown trout. Chris Megan from On the Water mag gets a top notch net job from Bill to land this trophy early in the season fresh male brown trout! The 2021 New York State fishing guide can be found at https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/7917.html for downloading and printing at home. reminds boaters to Not be a fool in the fog and use your radar as they almost had an incident last week while fishing. Hard copies can be requested by emailing FWFish@dec.ny.gov. The following report is courtesy of Capt. That may well all blow out after this latest round of precipitation. The forecast ahead thru about the weekend is for colder weather that will drop and clear flows. End of week there is the chance for mixed bag precipitation and Lake Effect Snow for the weekend. Forecast is for precipitation again Wednesday and a chance of showers thru the end of the week. The recent changing winds, lightning and storms are not good for fishing but things did become more stable.
Oak Orchard Fishing Report | Fish Tank Facts A few pools or slots may hide a fish that didnt take the drop back trip. The last time it was dredged was in 2014. Bob! (function(){var ml="k0of4rsdc%ainhm. Our Cannon Downriggers parked at 30 & 40 with spoons back 30 were our hottest setups. Get the drift or swing down and checked and slowed a bit and you can find a head shaking steelhead on the take. Cover lots of water and get the drift down and slow and you could find a chromer! Next chance at snow for area wide is for the beginning part of next week. Water temps for now are already in the the high 30s F on the Oak and prob going higher with the forecasted warmup thru the end of this week. And maybe into the early spring! We had the pleasure of taking out an 81 year old father with his daughter (pictured left). With the previous high and off color flows in the Oak its been a bit of a challenge for good drifts and swings. Now some silver browns hooked up too, as has been the case on the smaller tribs like to the east. The medium to slightly high flows in the Oak are proving to be a nice draw for Kings. Going SW or just by the nature of the LES bands having moved around, accumulations will be more in different nearby areas. Saturday afternoon we fished 150-200 in water a few miles west of Port. That sounds like a receipe for fresh fish migrations in all the waterways and the chance for brown trout and steelhead hook ups! That good run of Kings in the Oak from end of last week has spread out nearest the dam, but guys are finding pods of spawning fish in the downstream fast water reaches. Chance of icing in select areas. Chance of rain and colder temps and windy conditions for the end of the week but back to relatively mild temps again by the weekend. Looks like a good head of turbine water with overflow levels diminished. New for 2021: enter and weigh from your phone! Flows in the Oak are on the drop slightly after a bump up from the past weekends rain. Thats more typical of what we would have normally seen a month ago. The northeast coastal weather put a damper on show attendance and the vendors participating were down some thanks to Covid worry but the anglers who did visit the show had good interest in all of the Lake Ontario trout and salmon fishing opportunities. Hike and hunt around the smaller waterways in the lower flows like at Sandy and Johnson and you should find some browns too. TheNYS Canal Corporationreleases water from the Erie Canal into Lake Ontario Tributaries in Western New York for an extended period each fall to create a longer season and even better angling experience. Thanks to all who helped including NYSDEC, Ernsts Lake Breeze Marina, feeding/cleaning volunteers, Seth Green Chapter TU, Orleans County Tourism and yours truly spearheading efforts. Many still in good green shape with some old moldies now on Halloween zombie patrol downstream.
Sean Morrow - Procurement Officer - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fishing pressure real light. Avoid close contact, such as shaking hands, hugging, and kissing. Flows should stay up thanks to exceptional upstream supplies even as water color should continue to improve. Free reign for trout and salmon moving up and down the waterway of the turbine channel gives so many more angling opportunities immediately and in the future. Boaters are asked to use the Oak Orchard State Marine Park on the WEST side of the River on Archbald Rd. Then theres the building King numbers at the dam, fish numbers probably outpacing the creeling pressure to this point. Kings and cohos have been hanging around in 110-160 FOW between the farm and the glass house. Thru this weekend flows are prob more agreeable for better drifts but the water color is worse so there could be tougher action. Still hanging on to warm (hot) weather but theres a change afoot in the forecast with chance of significant rain mid week and a cool down. So, flows, weather and fishing action are somewhat up and down. DEC has received a few reports of dead fish on Sandy Creek and Johnson Creek, likely due to fishing mortality, but has not received any reports of abnormally large numbers of dead fish from Oak Orchard Creek. Expect mod to med, but just less then med mostly clear flows in the Oak. Any given half day outing yielding something like a few hook ups. $67,400 Total Cash Pay-Out So how do you know if trophy trout and salmon will be catchable upon your travels to the Oak Orchard and WNY area? Congratulations to the winner of the 2021 Summer LOC Derbys grand prize of $10,000, Michael Paddock from Albion who held the lead since July 13th with his 31 lb 7 oz salmon he caught aboard Aquarius. There were briefly low flows in Sandy but my estimation is Canal feed has resumed and bumped flows back up slightly. Cool nights and cooperative winds should make for better battles with more staging Kings and trout chances as well. Suckers here and there will entertain you, depending upon your pouty lips perspective and more and more bass will be in the mix too. The winner of the Salmon Division was just 1 oz less and caught by Aiden Stafford of Rochester on U Betcha. Once pressured, browns may move a little distance from the tails of the salmon but they will still likely be in the closest broken water downstream. There has been light mixed precipitation thru today with highs in the 30sF. Forecast is for a warmup with temps around 50F (and wind) for the mid week and chance of rain on Thursday. Any below freezing night could make for some skim ice or chunky flows in an exposed waterway like Sandy. The following report is courtesy of Captain Andy Bliss of Cold Steel Sportfishing. High and stained flows gives up some fresh Oak Orchard chrome for the Licorice Man. Canal seasonal feed and winter drainage water is done or nearly done and the trib levels remain up thanks to the natural run of the river contributions. The better reports I hear are from guys that have some Kings migrate past them or hold and they get some drifts to them. Bob! Photo courtesy of Mike Lavender. There was another couple inches of wet snow and something like a 0.25 inch of rain thru last night. The Oak Orchard Harbor is in the process of being dredged which started last week (8/25) and is expected to be finished in mid September. But no worries the nights are cooler now and we had our coolest night yet of the season last night into the 40s F. Chance of rain showers Thursday and again for the weekend. No accumulations expected here on the WNY Lake Ontario Plain. Christmas rain brought all the trib flows up with stained water color. We have a new logo that cleverly looks a lot like the old one! Second season trout action now with light fishing pressure and still reasonable weather with all kinds of water to fish seems like the name of the game right now! Oh winds could shift it this way and that would mean well get some snow. Mainly with an old school program. No lunch will be offered and no fly fishing tourney will be held. New York State is open for fishing and DEC encourages anglers to recreate locally at a nearby waterbody. The parking donation will be $10 per car. Same for the LES that is coming. Look for drop back fish to be living there for now, with the other most productive spots being right at the dam or overflow channel pool. As we started getting into 90-100 we noticed a ton of bait and big fish on the bottom. Those fish deserve a chance to immigrate back out to the Lake if caught and released back into the turbine channel. All the trib flows look on the retreat from previous snowmelt and precipitation. On their way to Wilson Harbor, he reports that they started catching browns and cohoes just shy of Shadigee in 7-10 FOW. Chance for more downpours thru tonight with strong winds and an advisory forecast thru tomorrow. The temps are returning to seasonably after a few days of a heatwave along with high winds. Keep informed from the NYS Canal web for changes and restrictions with canal waters. We found meat was the best bait. Breakfast will be offered for a $10 donation. And maybe into the early spring! Oakridge, Tennessee, United States. Wind has subsided and we are on the backside of 3/4 1 inch of rain. For now flows in the Oak are moderate or optimistically almost medium and mostly clear. Some days guys seem to do OK and other days are slower. Call 585-682-4546 or email document.getElementById("eeb-573343-278334").innerHTML = eval(decodeURIComponent("%27%69%6e%66%6f%40%66%69%73%68%6f%61%6b%6f%72%63%68%61%72%64%2e%63%6f%6d%27"))*protected email* for a reservation ASAP! Our final report is courtesy of JCapt. Lake Ontario Counties (LOC) Spring Trout and Salmon Derby May 7-16, 2021: 1 st of 3 LOC Derbies offering over $44,000 in cash and prizes with a grand prize of $15,000 for the largest overall Salmon caught. We landed both and the high fives were endless. Hopefully the fishing pressure overall is likewise spread out like the fish. We have an aerial map highlighting the PFD zone just downstream of the dam and on the overflow channel on the Oak. Consider how wet its been for months now, the high water tables, saturated fields and brim full swamp headwater supplies and youll come to realize the typical slow rise and quick fall of trib levels is going to occur more like quick rise and slow fall. Trolling in a west direction was tough as the current was making it difficult. Try around the green buoy marker. Then forecast is cooler again in the 40s for the upcoming weekend. Captain Bob Songin from Reel Excitement Charters gives an impressive report from yesterday, April 25th as he trolled west to the Bar in Niagara County. Other area smaller tribs are at med and slightly stained. Capt. CDC/New York State Department of Health guidelines, following the guidelines on DECs website about fishing responsibly in New York State, information about the benefits of being outdoors safely and responsibly. With cool water temperatures, rig depths of 30 to 80 ft down are getting Troutman 2 anglers kings coho and some whopper lake trout! Winter and cold and snow is hanging in. Required fields are marked *. They fished way off shore on the Pirate Queen with Captain Tom Wolfe. Some Lake Effect Snow showers has amounted to a few more inches of fluffy accumulation on top of the 1-2 ft previous snow. Welcome August! The LOC started Friday and runs until September 6thLabor Day. Production of hard copies is finished and have been delivered to License Issuing Agents. Other hook ups weve heard about in the Oak include a few browns, some smallish Atlantics and a good sized steelhead or two. Captain Mikes recommendation is using mainly a flasher fly bite yellow flashers, blue green flies. Other area smaller tribs east and west are coming back into slightly high and stained flows. (There will be no fees for the 2021 canal boating season.) Mixed bag action on the Oak, mostly salmon action on the other area smaller tribs. Last night at dusk I had no problem finding some Kings crashing and boiling around at the Bridges area on the Oak and even a few at Point Breeze. May 21st is the scheduling for the canal opening. The best spinner/fly set up is DW Gator Flasher Spindoctor with an A-TOM-IK BAM fly. Thank you to the DEC, the volunteers and especially Ernsts Lake Breeze Marina for the use of their boat slips/docks this Spring. Fishing pressure not bad, as mentioned above we may be in a bit of a lull between ending salmon efforts and starting brown trout efforts. Or at best last ditch chances later this spring when the best fresh run fish action may be behind you. This latest rise in flows and continued cool down should kick off better brown trout migrations in the Oak setting up good drifting chances into November and maybe into December with reasonable weather hanging in. March 2020 steelhead chrome action on the Oak! Before things got too blown up yesterday guys reported some AM pier action. Spoons are UV Mags, green. Fishing pressure is over-the-all pretty light and manageable. Check out the nice King recent catch pic above.. King salmon are scheduled for release today, that effort under the directive of the local charter community. That may be a result of the good flows bringing in those steelhead. It looks like a real good head of turbine water with no significant overflow water. Some reports of stained water color to the east which could be a result of Canal drainage. They scored 4 king salmon (17-20 lbs) and a trophy sized steelhead weighing in at 16 lbs. Pitch a retrieve and wait for the hard jolt! Anglers seeing and having hook up success on browns is encouraging we are likely on a trajectory to out pace last years brown trout action already. Well just have to wait and see if itll be a hard and fast melt or something a little more moderate and gradual. Opportunities right now may not be for multiple hookup days but the chances are there for a few hard worked at bites with light fishing pressure in real nice flows and not bad weather conditions. Aiden also won the Youth Division with that salmon. The smaller side channels and Trout and Orwell brook all have fish; which are providing the most action at this time. The only sure way to know is to get out there and make a few drifts! The area received a few inches of wet snow and sleet thru the end of the past week. The longer range forecast looks like back to colder for rest of next week. Started in fairly shallow 80-120FOW and got some nice kings first thing in the morning but things slowed. Sign up for our FREE Fishing Reports Today! Must be the the cool Bauer and GLoomis spey gear that made it happen for Chuck the Swinger end of Apr 2021! The hope is this cold weather will be a good thing for later winter and spring steelhead action. Other area smaller waterways will be snowed and frozen in. No sore shoulders or headache now Erica will be forever casting for her trophy 4. Expect daily water level fluctuations thanks to leaf fall/wind and hydro power operations. There could be fresh steelhead, fresh silver browns or drop back fish. No major icing that we are aware of. Jeremy Sage from, Warrior Lures Sport Fishing Products Traxstech Corporation. Given somewhat of the late start to the salmon action, Id have to say that we might only be amidships in the run.Look for Kings arriving into start of November. Hook ups on some fresh fish are coming a little easier then the previous few weeks check out the latest catch pic below. Windy too, with rain showers but at least no snow from the latest storm here on the WNY Lake Ontario Plain. Follow them up from the Rivermouth, lower river, frog water, fast water stretches, Waterport dam. That being said, the fish holding thermocline is yoyoing between 30 to over 100 down. Furlough was just long enough for a few casts! Not much precipitation was realized for the past weekend, so all the trib flows are on the drop and clearing for now. The fish were biting on a deep rigger set at 120, flasher/meat rig and wire dipsey, 280-300 out, gold 42 second paddle with mirage fly, NBK paddle mirage fly, 600 hundred copper with a Jill bill meat rig. Early Sep 2017. Fathers Day Outing Courtesy of Get the Net Charter. Click the image to subscribe to our weekly fishing reports. Anglers fishing from boats should be able to maintain at least six feet of distance between one another. We are catching fish in 50-110 water in front of the major rivers and off 9-mile point. One positive for the continued cold weather is trib water temps have not spiked high yet. Flights Vacation Rentals Restaurants Things to do Dusseldorf Tourism; Dusseldorf Hotels; Dusseldorf Bed and Breakfast . Pier head foot soldiers may want to at least occasionally do an about face from lakeside casting at times to check the scene in the channel. So with light angling pressure in the Oak, a few drop backs, spawners and fresh fish have been encountered in the low and clear flows. On Sept. 11 there will be a First Responders Fishing Day, sponsored by the Southtowns Walleye Association of WNY. Watch for that high and stained water flow and hit it as soon as you can. Im just returning from the Fly Fishing Show in Edison, NJ so will need to come back up to speed on fishing info as some angler reports come in. Brown trout reports still about 50% good/50% slow. For more information, visit our website at visitoswegocounty.com and click on the Fishing Report along the top bar on the home page. Plenty of water cover in the Oak for a few fresh brown trout or getting toward more post spawn fish. Fishing pressure is light to moderate with what looks like a few guys here and there probably enjoying holiday time off. We took a look at flows and found the same medium-ish or slightly high that its been and some stain, but maybe not as dirty as reported a few days ago. Theres probably still some old Orleans Outdoor content out there on the web and Goggle. First week of Sep 2019 with lots more chances ahead. Keep informed from the NYS Canal web for changes and restrictions with canal waters. 585-589-3100
Derbies & Tournaments Orleans County Tourism Patience and persistence on the Oak may finally be paying off. Call Steve Haak at 225-0229 for more info. Sandy Creek is probably remaining stubbornly stained from that Canal drainage but definitely dropping back some. Warming temps and the next spate of water could bring on some big fresh steelhead! Water temps have flirted with 40F but should slide back with the forecasted colder weather ahead. Buc-A-Roo Charters is recognized as one of the premier charter operations on Lake Ontario.