Fly Fishing

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

Alot of fly fisherman get frustrated looking for Salmon River - Great Lake Regions - Fly Fishing Reports. Much of the information on the web is skewed and antiquated. I have searched high and low for one source of quality reports and up to date valid information. The answer is simple. There is NOT one source. There are several. So - this may help you - if you are searching for up to date Salmon River Reports. These are links to resources that are very fly fishing related and have proven to provide valid - consistent - quality information over the last several years. So, if you are planning a trip to Salmon River NY or any of the great Lake tributaries. You might be able to save some of the pain associated with scouring the web and trying to find the information you are looking for.

Current Reports For Salmon River

Whitakers: Updated daily - Geared towards Fly Fishing - Has a proven track record for providing up to date - legitamate reports - Every fly fisherman I know has been checking this report since the early days of the web:
http://www.whitakers.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/whitakers/daily_forward.html

Salmon Crazy: Updated on a minuted by minute basis - a good group of fly fisherman constantly talking about current conditions. A must check.
http://www.salmoncrazy.com/vforums/forumdisplay.php?f=4

Oswego County Updated Monday or Tuesday and Thursday or Friday.
http://www.co.oswego.ny.us/tourism/fishing/fcond.html

Salmon River Specialists Updated Daily in a forum type environment. Also a good source for everything you need to know about how to fly fish for steelhead. http://www.salmonriverspecialists.com

The Steelhead Site Lots of real time communication and up to minute reports - a solid membership base of fly fisherman. http://www.salmonriverspecialists.com
http://steelheadsite.com/reports/new_york/

Flies And Fins Steelhead, Salmon And Trout Articles - Pictures - Videos - Ask Questions - Give Tips - Learn Tactics - Share Tactics - Watch Steelhead, Salmon, Trout, Videos - Search the site for Steelhead/Salmon/Trout Articles - Within the stories and videos are many tips, tricks and steelhead tactics. A totally interactive fly fishing online experience. http://www.fliesandfins.com

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hey whippa, kranes and other NY fly fisherman - did you fish the river or any tribs this weekend? here anything about the steelies? how are the water temps and levels? can't wait to make a few trips out your way as soon as the albies head south.

waterwhippa · Location: Upstate, NY

Hey Jer, We haven't been out in a couple weeks. Just waiting for the crowds to thin out and the steel to stack up.

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

yeah --- once the kings die - the crowds will too - thats when we will start venturing your way. those kings should be getting close to being rotting carcases by now ---- -and the steel should start moving in Very Happy

- keep us posted

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

wanna come chase some albies with us in rhode island this weekend??? - you and kranefly have an invite - stay at my place in rhode island - cheap - cheap - cheap - just gas from ny to rhode island. let me know

we are gonna be fly fishing fri - sat - sun and monday morning

kranefly · Posted: Mon 10/03/05 10:36 am Post subject:

I think I might cry! I would love to. Unfortunately, I am leaving on Saturday for Wyoming. Crying or Very sad

I will be out there for a week, then I will be driving to Salt Lake City. I will be headed back here on the 20th. I may bring a rod in hopes of getting a little fishing in, but time is pretty tight.

Thanks anyway, Jeremy. Hope you get into some!

Nate

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

oh well - wyoming and salt lake should be pretty good though --- > hey you should get in touch with jason-c - send him a private message - i am sure if he is not busy he would like to fly fish with you around salt lake city area (he lives in salt lake) - even if you guys got out for a couple hours or so that would be cool.

anyway - have a good trip - we will get into the albies next fall - and when you get back to NY we will start to plan some steelie trips - i miss fly fishing with you and whippa - we all had such a blast and lots of laughs in rhode island this spring - all the salt water guys here in maine keep askiing about you guys ---- i saw pistol pete on the the vineyard --- he said, "tell those guys from new york to go #%&* off" -

RickW · Location: Syracuse, NY

Jeremy,
I've been able to fish the salmon r. a few times over the last few weeks. I'll post a short report when I get home from work tonight.

Austin · Posted: Mon 10/03/05 2:23 pm Post subject:

Howdy!
Hey guys, I hate to say it but I am actually more excited for the albie fishing than salmon river. I can hear my line just flat out whipping outa the striping basket already. Very Happy

Seriously though if one of us hooks up it will be great. Putting off all my egg fly tying and switching over to bunny flies tied on $4 hooks Very Happy

I think I have the bug, only 4 more days to go!!! Tight lines

Austin

RickW · Location: Syracuse, NY

Austin
If you can put off your trip to the salmon river until the crowds are gone and the steelies are in the river, you will have a much better time.

The salmon run, as wild as it may be, is just the warm-up for the main event (steelhead Very Happy

).

I stopped going there about 20 years ago b/c I couldn't deal with the lifting, lining and snagging. In those days I was drifting spawn sacks with spinning gear for salmon and steelies. It just seemed like 9 out of 10 "fisherman" would be using a 1/0 egg hook with a tiny plastic crazy egg or the like. Throughout the drift they would constantly lift their rod (hence the term lifting) this would usually be accompanied with " hadda bite....missed him" or "fish on" with the fish usually foul hooked.

Last year during steelhead season I was inspired by this board to give flyfishing for steel and salmon a try. I'm a long time fly fisherman but always for stream trout.

I've had a few very enjoyable trips to the salmon river so far this year, and actually landed my first fly caught king a couple of weeks ago.

For me this is (I hope) a "tune up" for Steelhead season.

I've heard a few reports of some guys getting steelhead, and I saw one steelie and a coupla nice browns landed at Altmar a few weeks ago.

Last week, Wed, and Thursday I concentrated on the lower part of the river (DSR). I had a ball on thursday the weather was wild w/ sheets of rain sweeping up the river and gusts of wind that were 30-50 mph. It stayed windy all day, but in the afternoon there were breaks in the clouds with some sun breaking thru. The bonus................there were very few fishermen that stuck it out, and I had some beautiful stretches of the river to myself. In the afternoon I hit a stretch that had some fresh agressive kings, and I had 5 hook-ups with one nice female landed.

From what I've been hearing, this has been a banner year for salmon. I hope we'll be able to say the same later on about steelies.

flyfishingjunkee · Location: utah

Kranefly email me and I may be able to help you out. I fished in wyoming 2 weeks ago. I fished in Utah a day last week. I am going back to fish wyoming Thursday or Friday. flyfishingjunkee@hotmail.com

KodiakCommando · Location: Kodiak, Alaska

Lifters are a problem wherever there are salmon. We have them up here too esecially for hard to catch red salmon. Some people are lazy and just won't put in the work it takes to catch a skittish salmon. Luckily kodiak doesn't have near the pressure the salmon river has so they can be avoided easily up here.