Its a tough lake right now to fish with all the lamprey in the system but Samson is a good starting point to start & work your way north looking for bait & large marks on your fishfinder & work them hard good luck
Gator how old are you I am 62 fishing the lake since 77 have seen many changes since some good some not so much but we still have a great fishery here. What we also could use here is some new genes from kings from Alaska as DEC is not taking the cream of the crop to stock in the lake
I do not think we will ever have the massive numbers of alewives we had say in the 80s but will also never crash like they did in to rest of the Great Lakes but I think we are having a more diverse biomass of bait fish for the salmon & trout to prey on so if we can come up with a atlantic salmon fishery lets do it long live the Atlantic
All you have to look to is the Lake Superior State College stocking of Atlantic Salmon in to the Great Lakes this program is doing great strong for thirty years something must be right here
There is a place here for our Atlantic Salmon just as there is a place for Kings , coho, steelhead & brown trout we as fishermen must keep our elected officials accountable for the will of the people & be happy for the great fishery we have here