Please check our website, at visitoswegocounty.com, for the current CFS. Water temps are moving thru the mid and into the high 30s F and look for 40F ish+ as the weather warms. Downstream fast water drifts and all the way to the downstream flat water has been quietly productive at times too, esp if youre there intercepting a pod of fresh fish moving thru. Seasonable cold winter weather for the end of week with some LES happening south and west of here. You can catch steelhead and some browns. Try to keep at least six (6) feet of distance between you and others. Seasonable cold is forecast to hang in at least thru the week and weekend. Back on the retreat thru today after a cold night. Kurt Driscoll. Orleans County Fishing Report June 1, 2021 Beginning May 19, 2021, NY will be adopting CDC guidelines on mask use. Year-Round Notice: There are mandatory personal flotation device (PFD) zones on the river. Depending on your perspective some might call it only slightly high. Evereything in the Oak remains open and fishable. Cover lots of water and get the drift down and slow and you could find a chromer! 3.5. Certain days youll notice that salmon movement by seeing them crashing around, but as often as not that movement seems to go on quietly. Concentrate on the faster shires and ruffles as they are more oxygenated. These 23 & 25 lb Salmon were caught in 450 to 500 fow.40 to 120 down, using Dipseys 180 to 220 just slightly west of the Oak. Then theres the building King numbers at the dam, fish numbers probably outpacing the creeling pressure to this point. Shorebound casters get in on the brown trout action at the break of spring thru Mar, Apr or May. So no big change in flows yet in the Oak. Even though I wouldnt look for turbine flows to change much in the near term, once the water temps begin to rise even a little the drift chances should improve and more fresh fish will hopefully be evidenced all around. The best spinner/fly set up is DW Gator Flasher Spindoctor with an A-TOM-IK BAM fly. reported that the ups & downs continue on Lady O and this past Saturday was an UP judging from young Jeremiahs smile! The last time it was dredged was in 2014. Be one of the lucky few that experiences good fishing as it takes place instead of hearing that famous quote, you should have been here yesterday!, Tight lines and smooth drags! For information on fishing Great Lakes tributaries, visit the DEC website. Any significant rainfall could raise flows up more with dirtier water color. Civilian small boat trollers reported to be having good brown trout action so that tells me the land lubber casting chances should be good too. Other area smaller waterways are at about medium level and back on the clearing to slightly stained from the past weekend rain. All the water is open to fish with some bank ice here and there in slack water areas. Reports from the rest of the downstream water or other area smaller tribs are thin thanks to the light fishing pressure. Copyright 2023 On The Water, LLC. 400 Coppers, Divers out 220-240, Riggers down 80-90-100. Fishing pressure is over-the-all pretty light and manageable. Flows in the Oak are on the drop slightly after a bump up from the past weekends rain. Flows in the Oak are slightly high with water color about 1 2 ft of slightly stained viz. Bob! High water drifting as long as its not blown might be the name of the game! Theres probably still some old Orleans Outdoor content out there on the web and Goggle. The Olcott pier project is completed for land lubbers there to get back out there or the Oak Orchard piers. Salmon are starting to stage in shallow water and becoming more active. All the trib flows are up just a bit from the latest rain thru yesterday. Anglers fishing from boats should be able to maintain at least six feet of distance between one another. Early season Oak rivermouth action for a nice brace of med female Kings for the Licorice Man. Best meat rig is a 10 white double crush glow green dot spindoctor, w/an irish thunder twinkie rig behind it. Flows yesterday in the AM were down but did rebound nicely to the mod or almost med flows weve had this season. 14016 Route 31 West A fair number of Kings are loitering in downstream areas on the Oak with skein drifters still into them up at least until yesterday. Bro-Weekend was a success for the Meyer family from Eastern PA and NJ (pictured below)! Pitch a retrieve and wait for the hard jolt! Any below freezing night could make for some skim ice or chunky flows in an exposed waterway like Sandy. Boat angling easily the least expensive bargain for big salmonid angling chances where you get to feel the strike and experience an honest battle without heavier trolling gear. We started the morning in the same water we had been fishing. And we predict even more mixed-up conditions for the next few days. The other area smaller tribs have medium flows and slightly stained water color. A little more rivermouth action now. We have a new logo that cleverly looks a lot like the old one! If an angler arrives at a parking lot and there are several cars, they should consider going to another parking lot. The other area smaller waterways trending slowly falling flows at around mod and slightly stained. And along with the browns theres the chance for Atlantics, cohos or steelhead rounding out nice mixed bag chances. Click here to view Capt. New Yorks lakes and streams offer great opportunities for fishing in a wide array of settings across the state. Hopefully the fishing pressure overall is likewise spread out like the fish. This will entice more brown trout, steelhead and Atlantic and Pacific salmon to run up these streams, improving conditions for the fish and expanding opportunities for anglers. The parking donation will be $10 per car. Herring Twinkie Fly rigs fooled some big uns! Thanks to this forecast, flows in the Oak and other area smaller tribs will be (again) on the way to high, blown and dirty. Well be back to more seasonable temps for mid and end of week with a chance of showers Thursday. Good high water drifters are getting a few brown trout hook ups each outing by covering some water. Not much precipitation was realized for the past weekend, so all the trib flows are on the drop and clearing for now. Steelhead have been there and more likely to trickle in. Good action reported, consistent from most anglers on the Oak thru the past end of weekend and yesterday. Reasonable fishing pressure with fair to good numbers of Kings spread from near shore big Lake O waters to upstream fast water spots, in some cases right past anglers not there yet to intercept with a drift. Drying out weather could lead to lower medium ish or wetter weather could lead to higher/dirtier. 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. Fish. The current leader is now a 32-pound, 4-ounce fish reeled in by Zane Smith of New Brighton, PA while fishing out of Olcott this week. The past days, since the weekend, rains and high water has been tough for most. We landed both and the high fives were endless. Nothing new about that for steelhead angling! Buc-A-Roo Charters is recognized as one of the premier charter operations on Lake Ontario. Nearer the dam and just downstream should show a few more fish. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. 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. This Jan timeframe is historically a bit of an in-between time frame so any action is a bonus after the fall runs and before later winter/early spring steelhead. Anglers on the Oak reported small pods of Kings on the move thru the fast water areas yesterday. The fair action now is hopefully a good sign for action yet to come thru Feb/Mar. There are always some exceptional fish caught in the trib season, just check out the pics below and in the archives. The Pic of the Week was taken just this morning, June 8, 2021 fromMike Grager, Get Hooked Sportfishing. Here we are into November with cooler temps and on the backside of higher flows. More importantly he shares his expertise on what lures have been successful for him and his crew. Lots of optimism for trib season chances ahead on good returns from the steelhead pen rearing renewed project since 2019. It includes a county map with the designated public fishing access points and boat ramps, tackle & bait shops, marinas and popular fish species of Orleans County. Start of Fall 2021 action end of Sept! Still lots of water in the Oak at slightly high and slightly stained with about 2 ft of visibility. Today the salmon did not disappoint us! Its been pretty warm, and the near term forecast thru this week is continued warm with highs pushing the 80s F. Yes the area has been getting some precipitation lately, but no single rain event (yet) has been enough to move fish upstream. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. Aiden also won the Youth Division with that salmon. One warm water 40-50F hook-up is worth a half dozen 32 point something F hook ups! We had tried for brown trout in close, but they didnt cooperate for us, so I moved out deeper to try to find some lake trout.. Mike LavenderfromIntimidator Sportfishingreported that the ups & downs continue on Lady O and this past Saturday was an UP judging from young Jeremiahs smile! Any future rise in flows should perk up the action for fresh fish so well hope the upcoming forecasat brings that on either with rain or snow and then melt off. They caught this 29# salmon earlier this week, their biggest catch of the year! Chance of another mixed bag precip type of storm that could add to whats on the ground already and add to that spate of water when it melts. Production of hard copies is finished and have been delivered to License Issuing Agents. Any significant precipitation will quickly raise all the trib flows up again with the chance for off color flows. A couple of reports thru yesterday mentioned some hook ups on smaller browns and steelhead. Look for your fishing window sooner then later whenever reasonable conditions come together. FREE boat launching until the Spring! Chance of icing in select areas. As a few post holiday reports come in it sounds like guys have had some better steelhead action. Even at this almost mid-Oct timeframe, theres still good hookup chances from the nearshore Lake Ontario all the way to the dam, so the fishing opportunity definitely will spread out. The rain is Lake Effect so as is often the case with snow most of it goes south of the area. The forecast after the warmup for the end of week/beginning part of the weekend is back to cold temps with snow on the backside of the rain so the up and down, 2 3 day cycle will continue. Its fall and its leaf fall time so expect maybe daily water level fluctuations on the Oak thanks to hydro power operation. One note: the spiny water flea bloom is in progress so rig your rods with 30-50# mono on riggers and be prepared to check rods often. Within moments, our first lake trout was on and while Wendy was fighting her fish, our 300 diver gets smashed and Bill was fighting his first ever salmon. Wrap around Lake Effect Snow after the storm may bring all the snow accumulations north and south about equal anyway.