Fishguy85 Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 Haven't been out since late spring but hows everyone been doing this Summer. I'm hoping to start again late fall and during the winter trying out my new ice fishing rod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 I've haven't caught much this year.......................I don't know how everyone else is doing..........................But it's still fun to get out and try.....................😎 Fishguy85 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 The last couple weeks has been a grind for sure but this summers been good for me. Hoping some cooler weather can help me out. Fishguy85 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishguy85 Posted September 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 Im hoping the winter fishing will be good. I want to try ice fishing up in welland I haven't done it since I was a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 Just got back from Port Dal....verrry windy , but from the south so casts very extra long . I had a good battle with a big drum that I thought was an eye and another good tussle with a smallie . Water was cloudy and zero current which didn't help drifting the harnesses . Lots of people coming with kids to see Thomas the Tugboat while a parking attendant kept busy slapping tickets on their vehicles ....nice ! I have one week left on my parking pass ....don't know what happens Oct .1 ...forgot to mention ....I had a large trout or salmon follow my yellow spinner/worm right up near the surface and just touched the worm ! It was on the silvery side , got me pumped for sure ! I'm using a 10'6" light action rod . Fishguy85 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler0420 Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 6 minutes ago, smerchly said: Just got back from Port Dal....verrry windy , but from the south so casts very extra long . I had a good battle with a big drum that I thought was an eye and another good tussle with a smallie . Water was cloudy and zero current which didn't help drifting the harnesses . Lots of people coming with kids to see Thomas the Tugboat while a parking attendant kept busy slapping tickets on their vehicles ....nice ! I have one week left on my parking pass ....don't know what happens Oct .1 Hopefully after oct 1 it’s free parking smerchly and Fishguy85 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler0420 Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 17 hours ago, Fishguy85 said: Haven't been out since late spring but hows everyone been doing this Summer. I'm hoping to start again late fall and during the winter trying out my new ice fishing rod. I haven’t been out much this season. Too much work. These people won’t stop building houses. When I have been out it’s been pretty good. I had a blast fishing a carp tournament that I did pretty well in that was over a 2 month period. Got my kayak out on Erie once for walleye and hooked up with a nice 4lber so that was a win for me also. Now continue fishing carp and start salmon/trout. I could care less about ice fishing I wish we could skip that season. Fishguy85 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 51 minutes ago, Tyler0420 said: 18 hours ago, Fishguy85 said: I haven’t been out much this season. Too much work. These people won’t stop building houses. Seems strange in this "broken" economy there's so many new houses being built , most over $700 grand On the other hand , we all just spent over $600 million to elect the same people (deja vue) and 2 yrs.ago it was only $500 mill. Seems to be lots of cash out there ..... I think I'll wait until I see the minnows before I try again , then go for perch .In the mean time I have a few pounds of corn and oats to feed the cows ..... Fishguy85 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbocco Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 Salmon are available and fun as heck to fight in current. Bass also want to fatten up now. Steelhead in November Tony, smerchly and Fishguy85 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelshady Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 Had a great day with salmon last Thursday from shore casting and then the warm front came in and pushed them out in the lake. This cold front/rain will have the main salmon run go up rivers. Other then that, been a hot summer with little action except for carp which shut down in late July... Tony and Fishguy85 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelshady Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 3 hours ago, smerchly said: Just got back from Port Dal....verrry windy , but from the south so casts very extra long . I had a good battle with a big drum that I thought was an eye and another good tussle with a smallie . Water was cloudy and zero current which didn't help drifting the harnesses . Lots of people coming with kids to see Thomas the Tugboat while a parking attendant kept busy slapping tickets on their vehicles ....nice ! I have one week left on my parking pass ....don't know what happens Oct .1 ...forgot to mention ....I had a large trout or salmon follow my yellow spinner/worm right up near the surface and just touched the worm ! It was on the silvery side , got me pumped for sure ! I'm using a 10'6" light action rod . Start fishing more in that area, seen a guy catch an eel last night, about 30 guys casting for nooks but no action due to the heat. Also, seen carp, big bass and salmon jump constantly. I bet you that you catch catch perch on minnows later in the fall of the pier with browns as a bonus... Tony 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryl L Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 I have been having a great walleye season on Erie this year compared to last. Probably keep going for another month or so before I switch back to perch . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted September 21, 2021 Report Share Posted September 21, 2021 2 hours ago, steelshady said: Start fishing more in that area, seen a guy catch an eel last night, about 30 guys casting for nooks but no action due to the heat. Also, seen carp, big bass and salmon jump constantly. I bet you that you catch catch perch on minnows later in the fall of the pier with browns as a bonus... Funny thing about the eel ...I was talking to 2 elderly life time residents of Port Dalhousie who were walking their dog and one lady mentioned about the big eels caught there back in the 50's . some of those eels migrated way up into Short Hills . That's when the canal was open at Port , where eels could easily take the canal route or the four small "step" falls that ran beside the old "Rubber" factory as seen on the 1920 map . We had a ball there catching silvers every cast ! Got this picture in my Picasa Files ...had to add more contrast ...then snip it...As you can see there was a much greater volume of water at the 4 Falls & "Lincoln Fabrics' had another building where we fished right beside it . At the base of the "Step Falls" we caught the silvers every June . The water there was nothing but sewage , don't know how fish lived in it ...plenty of cats and carp and eels ...... steelshady, iscoDisco and NiagaraRiverFisher 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishingking Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 Went down to port dalhousie last night for a couple hours and managed to land two feisty males around 18 and 20 lbs ..had another on for 5 seconds and hook popped ...the wind kicked up and wasnt to nice to fish in.. iscoDisco, smerchly, Bubba14 and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryl L Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 17 minutes ago, fishingking said: Went down to port dalhousie last night for a couple hours and managed to land two feisty males around 18 and 20 lbs ..had another on for 5 seconds and hook popped ...the wind kicked up and wasnt to nice to fish in.. Beautiful fish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelshady Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 15 hours ago, smerchly said: Funny thing about the eel ...I was talking to 2 elderly life time residents of Port Dalhousie who were walking their dog and one lady mentioned about the big eels caught there back in the 50's . some of those eels migrated way up into Short Hills . That's when the canal was open at Port , where eels could easily take the canal route or the four small "step" falls that ran beside the old "Rubber" factory as seen on the 1920 map . We had a ball there catching silvers every cast ! Got this picture in my Picasa Files ...had to add more contrast ...then snip it...As you can see there was a much greater volume of water at the 4 Falls & "Lincoln Fabrics' had another building where we fished right beside it . At the base of the "Step Falls" we caught the silvers every June . The water there was nothing but sewage , don't know how fish lived in it ...plenty of cats and carp and eels ...... Nice map! They should build a fishway to let the fish go up pass the existing dam, right now they are sitting ducks below both falls....Were you catching silver bass? My son caught one last Saturday about 1lb on a cleo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass-turd Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 Nice salmon, bet they were a great fight, what lure caught these? As for the eel, was it an American eel? I thought these were endangered and catches are supposed to be reported Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishingking Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 Salmon was caught on glow spoons from peters tackle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Bass-turd said: Nice salmon, bet they were a great fight, what lure caught these? As for the eel, was it an American eel? I thought these were endangered and catches are supposed to be reported Eels were open season way back then and they were usually put in the smoker . In Ontario, the American eel was finally listed as endangered in 2007. At this point, the commercial fishery had already collapsed (it was closed in 2004) and eels were virtually absent from Lake Ontario. In 2013, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources released the Recovery Strategy for the American eel.Dec. 18, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snags Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 The MNR knows there are eels in Port D, they had someone trapping eels and relocating them during most of the work on the piers since they liked to hide in the open crevices where they were crumbling. smerchly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted September 22, 2021 Report Share Posted September 22, 2021 The life cycle of the American eel is very interesting . I didn't know they could live to be 25 years old . While fishing for pike , at "Gate 12" at the old canal many years ago , I caught a large eel , using a chub under a float ! ....strong fighters , and we always knew by the back & forth line movement we had an eel on the line . They still migrate into the rivers of the eastern U.S. https://www.fws.gov/fisheries/fishmigration/american_eel.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler0420 Posted September 23, 2021 Report Share Posted September 23, 2021 4 hours ago, smerchly said: The life cycle of the American eel is very interesting . I didn't know they could live to be 25 years old . While fishing for pike , at "Gate 12" at the old canal many years ago , I caught a large eel , using a chub under a float ! ....strong fighters , and we always knew by the back & forth line movement we had an eel on the line . They still migrate into the rivers of the eastern U.S. https://www.fws.gov/fisheries/fishmigration/american_eel.html Hate catching those Eels. Their slime balls and usually get tangled up in your rig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler0420 Posted September 23, 2021 Report Share Posted September 23, 2021 Western trib staring to see fish today. Bring your cookies because it’s chocolate Milk and high like spring levels. The next couple days they will be zooming up river. smerchly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishguy85 Posted September 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 Sorry for the delay nice salmon I use to fish for them with my dad got a few nice ones near Jordan 10 years ago. I tried 6 years ago in Port D with the glow in the dark spinners from Petes but ended up getting stuck on rocks and losing my lures. I kinda gave up on the salmon fishing its a pain coming from fort erie to port d and not getting anything and dealing with the crowds when i was there a guy told me there were guys fighting over salmon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbocco Posted September 25, 2021 Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 42 minutes ago, Fishguy85 said: Sorry for the delay nice salmon I use to fish for them with my dad got a few nice ones near Jordan 10 years ago. I tried 6 years ago in Port D with the glow in the dark spinners from Petes but ended up getting stuck on rocks and losing my lures. I kinda gave up on the salmon fishing its a pain coming from fort erie to port d and not getting anything and dealing with the crowds when i was there a guy told me there were guys fighting over salmon. The fighting still happens and Port D is tight with too many people around me. It’s not pleasant for me. I only shore fish for salmon from 5-8am in the whirlpool or glen because there is always space at those times in those places. Plus it’s better fishing then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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