orleans Orleans County Fishing Report for August 22, 2017

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Orleans County Fishing Report for August 22, 2017

Today is Tuesday August 22, 2017.

There were a lot of derbies and tournaments going on this weekend with some fantastic catches brought to the scales.

The King of the Oak Tournament was postponed on Saturday due to a small craft advisory on Lake Ontario and was held instead on Sunday.

For the second leg in a row Captain Tom Boddy and crew of Screamin' Reels Charters amassed a fantastic catch with three salmon weighing in at 73.13 Pounds.

Right behind Tom Was Capt. Rick Hajecki of Yankee Troller and in 3rd place was Capt. Bob Songin of Reel Excitement Charters.

The final leg of this tournament will be held on September 3rd and will determine who gets the coveted title of "King of the Oak" for next year.

Sunday was also the end of the Orleans County Rotary Derby and this year it was a nail biter right to the end.

With a very short time left John Vanhoff of North Tonawanda landed a 30-pound 12-ounce salmon to knock Keith Sheffield's 30-pound 9-ounce salmon out of the grand prize winner's spot by just 3 ounces.

That put Keith in the first-place spot for the salmon division.

In the steelhead/rainbow trout division, Robert Griffith of Copley, Ohio brought in a 15-pound 14-ounce beauty to take first place, first place brown trout was taken by Bill Cole of Albion with a 14-pound 3-ounce beauty and the big lake trout was caught by Dan DE George of Rochester with a monster 17-pound 10-ounce fish.

It's interesting to note that two of the participants that made it to the leader board are young gentlemen, Jason Grager in 2nd place with a 12-pound 12-ounce brown trout and in 3rd place in the lake trout division was Braydon Gambell with a 14-pound 9-ounce beauty. Just goes to show that the youth of today are into the great outdoors and especially fishing.

This report is getting too long so I'll cover the Greater Niagara Fish Odyssey and the Fall LOC Derby in my next report.

 

On Lake Ontario, after a rocky start fishing has settled in to an area around the 25.5 to 27 lines with some great catches of both chinook and Coho salmon along with very large steelhead thrown into the mix.

On Lake Alice, around the Waterport Bridge, catches of Bluegill are good but a lot of smaller fish in the mix. Please remember that those smaller fish are the future catches so put them back to grow into next year's catch.

Bass fishing on Lake Alice remains good to very good in the upper reaches.

On the lower stretches of the "Oak" a good mixed bag of the warm water species is being taken.

One gentleman I know of says that Gar pike fishing in this area are just about the best anywhere.

It won't be long before the perch fishing starts up again on the lower stretches of the "Oak" and that will be followed by some of the best tributary fishing to be found anywhere.

From Point Breeze on Lake Ontario, the World Fishing Network's Ultimate Fishing Town USA and the rest of Orleans County, let's make everyday a great fishing day right here in Orleans County.