Lake Ontario salmon report

[deerstalker420]

Nice fish

[Dave B.]

My  crew and I will be up the first full week of Oct as always. Hopefully there will be adequate water.

 

[nmc02]

8 hours ago, Dave B. said:

My  crew and I will be up the first full week of Oct as always. Hopefully there will be adequate water.

 

I will be there as well. I expect there will be water, as the reservoir is full.

[tuny]

going up the weekend after Labor Day then back up the week after Columbus day. Looking forward to early fish and some goose hunting.

[TroutandBucks]

Nice Nick way to catchem up 

[BowhunterNJ]

Nice catch!

[Nomad]

17 hours ago, nmc02 said:

Took a ride to the hatchery....saw a single salmon. A few more weeks and they will come into the river.

Is that the salmon river hatchery?

[hunterbob1]

17 hours ago, New Hunter said:

 Nice fish box.

Going salmon fishing Columbus Day weekend and stay on the Black River.

 

Fisher it 30 years ago, loaded with smallmouth, but that was August

Edited August 28, 2023 by hunterbob1

[DJ0808]

I haven't fished on Lake Ontario in a couple years, used to do the spring and fall LOC derbies, but it looks like for 2022/23 the fall salmon size are down about 3-5lbs on average compared to 2021, and 4-9lbs if you go back to 2010.

https://loc.org/leaderboard-2017-2022

https://loc.org/leaderboard-2010-2016

Hopefully it's just a 1-2yr dip in size, and not the new norm.

[nmc02]

8 hours ago, Nomad said:

Is that the salmon river hatchery?

Yes

[nmc02]

8 hours ago, DJ0808 said:

I haven't fished on Lake Ontario in a couple years, used to do the spring and fall LOC derbies, but it looks like for 2022/23 the fall salmon size are down about 3-5lbs on average compared to 2021, and 4-9lbs if you go back to 2010.

https://loc.org/leaderboard-2017-2022

https://loc.org/leaderboard-2010-2016

Hopefully it's just a 1-2yr dip in size, and not the new norm.

This is the smallest average I have ever seen. Seems 10 lb was average. Though, know of a 31 lb caught Friday. Our biggest was 14 lb, but lost a decent one. Fished morning & afternoon Saturday. Hopefully get some bigger fish in the river. 

[Nomad]

16 minutes ago, nmc02 said:

This is the smallest average I have ever seen. Seems 10 lb was average. Though, know of a 31 lb caught Friday. Our biggest was 14 lb, but lost a decent one. Fished morning & afternoon Saturday. Hopefully get some bigger fish in the river. 

That happened to us before. Got into a younger age class school of fish. Bigger fish are somewhere else.

Edited August 29, 2023 by Nomad

[DJ0808]

If your fishing near the spawning river mouths and seeing smaller fish it's possible the really big kings are still a little to the southwest and moving towards those rivers.

It could also be possible you're hitting a 2-3 yr 9ld class and not the big 3-4 yr olds like @Nomad said.

Still those salmon at any size are a blast to catch!!

[nmc02]

1 hour ago, DJ0808 said:

If your fishing near the spawning river mouths and seeing smaller fish it's possible the really big kings are still a little to the southwest and moving towards those rivers.

It could also be possible you're hitting a 2-3 yr 9ld class and not the big 3-4 yr olds like @Nomad said.

Still those salmon at any size are a blast to catch!!

We fished 22 miles out....tried closer too.

[archer36]

Terrific!