Kevin J Legg

Downriggers will work but difficult if you don’t really know the area. I don’t think planners would be a good idea as drop offs are pretty sharp and also have to deal with floating weeds. Perhaps heavy snap weights might get you to desired depth. Tough to get stick baits deep enough without weight although sometimes they can be caught in 18-25 fow at night.

I’ve been catching some huge bass but release them as I have plenty of walleyes and perch to eat. mosquitos can be bad in the evening without wind. Less so in early morning.

Mostly 30-35 fow but during the day deep jigging in 80-100.

Another early morning!

Beautiful

Up early and done early this morning. Another beautiful morning on the river.

Took a couple friends this morning early! We caught 4 and dropped 1. The SW wind had the current really ripping.

Picked up 2 walleyes and released a nice bass. Couldn’t find my third walleye this morning.

You might be able to get some bait in a minnow trap but dipping in the river would be tough and with certified bait regulations I’d get it at the bait store.

Try walleyes along breaks in 30-40 fow where there is current. I fish mostly at night.

Out solo early this morning and got a couple great fish . One 10.3 and the other 8.2. Going to be a while before Ranger can handle these but he did catch his first fish yesterday.

The last 5 days are a great representation of why I love living where I do. June 11th I fished the river and we caught 6 nice pike. June 12th I fished Stony light and we caught 7 browns trout and 4 cisco. June 13th I canned 7 pints of brown trout and smoked the cisco. June 14 I fished the SLR solo and caught 3 walleyes. June 15th I fished with Prof T and we caught our limit of smallmouth. We kept the smaller ones and realease a bunch of big ones. Not many places you can do this in less than an hours drive from home. What a great week!!!!

I canned 7 pints of brown trout yesterday and smoked a batch of cisco today. They all came out very good.

Maybe we can meet up and fish sometime 😀

Had another successful day out of Stony today. It was a slow pick but we ended the day with a decent catch of fish. Incidentally I grilled some browns, smoke a cisco, and fried some pike we caught on the river yesterday. What a feast!!!! All the fish came out delicious especially with the strawberry rhubarb pie my wife made for desert.

Spent yesterday fishing with Captain Richie Clarke. The wind was tough but he was able to produce a good catch never the less.

I’m fairly certain by the straight jaw this is a Cisco. We’ve been catching a few lately fishing browns. I have heard other refer to them as whitefish. I’ve saved them and am going to try them in my smoker.

Went out today with another banana packed in my lunch. Ended up catching 7 browns (released 1) and 2 ciscos and a very tiny salmon.

I agree with Gator. 7’ med to heavy rod. I was using 12-15 lb. Mono with 20 lb fluorocarbon leader. 1-11/2 ov jigging spoons worked well as do jigs in 25-30 fow we fished. As a side note there is a large fleet of kayakers targeting them on the old canal where we were fishing.

I believe you are correct they do appear to be ciscos not whitefish. I use to catch ciscos in Millsite Lake and they were much smaller (12-13”) then those I’ve caught in Lake Ontario. Thanks for educating me.😀

We caught them on plastic on jigs and jigging spoons. Actually the jigging spoons were most effective.

For a change of pace I made a run to my brothers on Cape Cod. He has a gorgeous place just past the Bourne Bridge. We fished two mornings and had a ball catching good size black sea bass. We will head home tomorrow!

Caught two my last trip on Ontario and one the trip before. Not unusual to catch them targeting browns.