Home Forums Fishing Freshwater Lake Ontario trout May 5, 2010

Was up on Lake Ontario last week for some spring time trout fishing. I thought I would share some of the pics. We fished with Dave Wilson Fishing Charters out of Oswego, NY.

Me after a whopping 3 hours sleep the night before.


Oswego on the way out of the harbor.


Sunrise over Lake Ontario.


1st brown of the trip.


My second one.


A nice rainbow that was a throwback. It didn't quite reach the 21" it needed to be to keep.


My buddy Scott with the biggest brown of the trip: 13.5lbs, 28.25" long, 18.75" girth. What a hog.
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Another throwback rainbow, 20" long. 1" shy of the magic 21" minimum.
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My last brown of the trip and the one that limited me out. He came in the last few minutes we had to fish.
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A good days catch.
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Sweeeeeet!


I t sucks not getting sleep until the fish start biting

Sounds like you had a good time. Ontario sure is a great fishery.

Oswego is very familar to me. I went to college there 68-72. I remember during that time when there was news that they put a few coho in the lake. They sure cranked up the stocking over the years.

We used to fish the warm water outlet of the coal burning power plant next to the college every spring. We caught white bass and the occasional shad or smallmouth. We used to compete to see who would get to one hundred first. I have been back occasionally over the decades. When I brought my boat I also fished the River just upstream of the Rt 104 bridge and caught a ton of smallies. At some point the white bass disappeared from the lake entirely.

Hope you get to go out again.

It was a blast Azshooter. I am now planning 2 more trips this summer. 1 trip will be with the guys in the pics, and the 2nd will be with another group of guys from work. I am definitely starting to fall for the area. I'm 10 years from retirement and find myself starting to think where I'd like to retire to. The Oswego area has become a definite possibility.

Craig

Geez retire to Oswego? They have lots of bars and get some record snows. The two go well together. BUT the fishing can be good. Even the breakwalls have smallies and walleye. Not too sure I'd want to eat many fish though. Love canal upstream took care of that.

I grew up in Rochester and sure enjoyed the area for fishing. So many places to go and different species to fish. Finger Lakes, rivers and streams and Lake Ontario.

You should get a boat and do your own downrigger trolling. You could get out far more often.

A friend from Rochester used to be big into the trolling for trout in Ontario. I went with him when I visited my parents.

I was so impressed I bought a larger boat and added downriggers. I have used them successfully all over the west catching rainbows, browns, kokanee salmon, and lake trout. Stripers at Lake Powell. Have even caught largemouths in the fall when they chased schools of shad in the middle of the lake at Roosevelt Lake in Az.

These days my friend exclusively fishes for perch in Seneca and Canandagua lakes. Now that was some serious downsizing.

Best of luck on your next fishing trip.