Updated Fishing Reports - Salmon River, Pulaski Ny

August 26, 2010

Salmon fishing on Lake Ontario has drastically improved the last few days. King and coho salmon are showing up in front of the salmon in 60' in much better numbers since mid week. The usual green/white glow attractor fly combos run off dipsies and riggers have been working well. We still have a few dates for morning charters open over the next few weeks along with a lot of afternoons including this Saturday. A few salmon have entered the Salmon River but it's way early. Just a small number of kings have been reported.
Salmon River Guide
Jackie and Shane Thomas

August 23, 2010

Salmon fishing on Lake Ontario has been decent over the last week with the exception of today. We were hitting 5 -7 kings and cohos a trip. The fish were in 60-100' of water and hitting 50-90' down on the usual attractor - fly combos mostly in green and white. Today the off shore wind brought temps way up -25' down temp was in the mid 50s. Only a few salmon were hitting. Water level on the Salmon River will be going up to 1800cfs tonight due 4+ inches of rain over the last few days. Hopefully this will bring more fish to this end of the lake.
Salmon River Guide
Jackie and Shane Thomas

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PAST FISHING REPORTS

August 12, 2010

Salmon fishing continues to improve on the eastern end of Lake Ontario. More an more king salmon are heading east to stage off the Salmon River. The fall migration is right around the corner and the fish will be stacking up in front of the river. Salmon are being taken in 150-160' of water. Spin drs and flies off the dipsys and down riggers have been work well run out 250-300' on dipsies, 110-130' off riggers. Trout fishing has slowed some but is still OK. We still have a lot of dates left for the next month of charter boat fishing salmon on Lake Ontario.
Salmon River Guide
Jackie and Shane Thomas

August 7, 2010

Salmon are starting to show up on the eastern end of Lake Ontario off the Salmon River. Most charter boats out of the Salmon River got into some king salmon today. Brown trout are still around in good numbers as well. Each day should show better numbers of salmon moving closer to Salmon River. Most kings were taken from 100-120 feet down over 110-150'. Michigan Stinger spoons and dodger fly combos were taking fish equally well. We still have a lot of dates open this month - email or call for hot salmon action!
Salmon River Guide
Jackie and Shane Thomas

July 30, 2010

Brown trout fishing on Lake Ontario has been great. Salmon fishing has been sub par. We've been trolling for the trout in 90-120' taking fish on Michigan Stingers. The few salmon that have been around are in 140-160'- fly/spin dr combos are working best. We have plenty of open dates for August and September. Salmon fishing will be heating up very soon.
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Salmon River Guide

July 17, 2010

Brown trout fishing has been very good on Lake Ontario charters the last few days.
Lots of action for 4-8 pound trout. The trout are hitting Michigan Stingers in 70-100' - 60-70' down off the downriggers. The salmon are hitting but it's not on fire just yet. I would expect the king salmon to show up in better numbers over the next few weeks. Walleye fishing on Oneida Lake has been OK. Slow drifting/trolling worms spinners in 25-35' has been producing decent catches of 16-20 inchers. We have plenty of open dates for the rest of July. August is filling up for salmon charters so get ahold of us soon!
Salmon River Guide

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July 7, 2010

Trout & salmon fishing on Lake Ontario has been heating up the last few weeks.
Charters are catching brown trout, steelhead and king salmon off Oswego to the Salmon River over deep water. The bait has been heavy all season that should help keep the big predators in our area. We have plenty of dates open for summer charters. We offer very reasonable rates and our 2 day package deals are the best deal in town. Fall salmon dates are filling in fast- book it now!
Salmon River Guide
Jackie and Shane Thomas

May 30, 2010

Over all it has been a good walleye season on Lake Ontario. Lots of BIG walleyes were taken throughout May. This last week has slowed down a lot on Lake Ontario but we have been going to Oneida lake as a plan B. I like plan B! It's been ON FIRE walleye fishing on Oneida Lake the last few nights. Slow trolling worms/spinners during the day and lure at night has been producing good catches of 15-20'' walleye. Small mouth and white bass have been plentiful as well.
Charters out on Lake Ontario have been taking lake trout. Brown trout and salmon fishing has been tough so lake trout have been picking up the slack. Again it's always nice to have a plan B! The lake has been setting up a thermocline- I'd bet trout and salmon fishing will improve very soon. .
Salmon River Guide
Jackie and Shane Thomas

May 11, 2010

Trolling for walleye on the Lake Ontario shoreline has been pretty good so far this season. A few nights were tough due to strong winds making it next to impossible to even fish.
The brown trout fishing remains decent for charters during the day. A few salmon are being taken out deeper as well. There were some impressive results in the Spring LOC derby- two 32 pound +Kings, 12 pound + Walleye, 27 pound Laker, 16 pound + Brown Trout- I would say the good old days are back! I would expect to see 40 pounds in the fall LOC.
Salmon River Guide
Jackie and Shane Thomas

May 5, 2010

Walleye fishing on Lake Ontario has been very good. Slow trolling stickbaits along the lake shore produced steady action. A few trout thrown in each night along with several double digit walleyes pushing 13#s. We have plenty of guides open for night walleye fishing. We fish Lake Ontario for trophy walleye and Oneida Lake for smaller eater size fish.
Salmon River Guide
Jackie and Shane Thomas

May 3, 2010

Steelhead season is officially over for this guide. Over all the steelhead season was excellent. The last month was tough due to low flows in the Salmon River.
Well now it's lake charter time! Right now brown trout and walleye fishing has begun. So far we have been trolling the eastern shore of lake Ontario for brown trout. It has been decent with some quality size trout coming to the boat. Reports have been good for night walleye fishing along the lake shore as well. Oneida has been slow for walleyes but that's typical for the beginning of the season. We will be out tonight for the my first Lake Ontario walleye trip of the season. I will be updating a lot more often as the season progresses. The charter boat is going in the water this week so we will be ready for deep water salmon fishing very soon. There have been reports of decent catches of king salmon already!
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Salmon River Guide

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