Salmon River Update 6 August, 2015

Salmon River Update – 6 August, 2015 Fishing this week on the Salmon River has offered anglers a few resident brown trout in the Pineville area and the Douglaston Salmon Run is producing plenty of action with the browns in their stretch of the river. There are...

Salmon River Update 23 July, 2015

Salmon River Update – 23 July 2015 With average water temps ten degrees cooler than normal, accompanied by high flows, you can be assured that we have fish throughout the entire river system.  Increased flows will bring in the Atlantic Salmon and for eight weeks...

Hot Winter Salmon River Flies

Even though the weather conditions can be harsh on the Salmon River and other Lake Ontario tributaries, it shouldn’t keep you off the stream for winter steelhead or brown trout. These are a few of my recommendations for Salmon River flies, (straight out of the...

Steelhead: Early Mortality Syndrome

Eco systems are complex and dependent on a wide variety of factors.  For example, Lake Ontario & it’s tributary system have 159 invasive species, Lamprey Ell, Alewife, Zebra Mussel, Goby, etc…..  Any of which can impact of a single species or the entire fishery....

From Winter to Spring: Getting ready for the Drop-Backs!

Steelhead that have survived the winter and some fishing pressure and are now nearing spawning time come March.  We do see spawning occurring in late February but significant spawning usually starts in mid-March and continues through April (always based on weather and...