Fishing Report The Niagara Bar

[rockin-steelhead]

Booked a guided trip to fish the Niagara river. Our guide Lyle had been out yesterday plus other trips but said the bar was fishing well and asked if we minded starting there and no one objected. Take the 7 mile or so trek down the river and we setup in 90fow just after 7am. Our first drift we landed 4 eyes…what a start. All I can say is the bar did not disappoint at all today with 5 different species being landed. We got walleye, lake trout, browns, salmon and white bass. We hooked at least 50 plus fish but the three of us all went home with two salmon and 2 eyes each. We would start the drift in 90 fow and finish around 20 fow. We only had one drift without a hook up throughout the whole trip.
After talking to other guys out at the lake as well as the dock they all said the same thing , how insane the fishing is and they have never experienced a day like today. The surprise for me was the number of salmon we got and heard caught today. What a fight on light gear….arms were a little sore at times with some of the fights.
We also heard of one sturgeon being caught as well today that took them over 30 minutes to land.
Here are a few pictures from the day.

 

[Centerspin]

Very very impressive, rockin-steelhead! And walleye too! Can it go down Welland Canal on it is native there?
On the last picture, looks like there is a panoptix or active target pole. near the bow Was it working that deep at 90 ft?

 

[Bay_Fishing]

That's a awesome day out. That trip is on my to do list.

 

[rockin-steelhead]

Hello Centerpin, it was Livescope …I believe the LS32 transducer and yes we could see in 90 fow without any issues…could see lots of fish on bottom all the way up

 

[rockin-steelhead]

This was my second trip out with Lyle…the first trip was in 2020 and then with COVID etc he didn’t run trips in 2021 and 2022.
He is a great guy to go out with and very knowledgeable.
Yesterday was one of those days many guys dream of the number of different species etc.

 

[rockin-steelhead]

Check out Hooked on Niagara

 

[Centerspin]

Hello Centerpin, it was Livescope …I believe the LS32 transducer and yes we could see in 90 fow without any issues…could see lots of fish on bottom all the way up

I recognized parts of Geigertec mount. I have their mount to hold 2FFs.

 

[rockin-steelhead]

Okay…seems a pretty cool mount and worked good for putting in and taking out easily when we did the move to start the drift over

 

[zzguffy901]

Awesome looking haul there! Were you guys vertical jigging or bottom bouncing somehow?

 

[rockin-steelhead]

We were drifting but the line as vertical as you can as boat control is very important with a little jigging action

 

[one.last.cast]

Awesome report. When you said you started the drift in 90 ft and ended 20 ft do you mean 90 ft at the mouth and drift to 20 ft. Out in the lake Or the other way where you start in 20 ft and drifted to 90 ft.

 

[rockin-steelhead]

Started near the mouth at 90fow and then drifted out to the lake along the ledge and would finish the drift in and around 20 fow

 

[Maestrolaker]

hi rockin- may I ask who you used for a guide. I have gone out with Paul Castellano a number of times but he's full for Dec so looking for an alternative. Thanks, Maestro

 

[Maestrolaker]

sorry saw it in earlier part of stream.
thanks

 

[Maestrolaker]

jumped on a last minute with Lyle yesterday. was super windy out of north so had to give up on river mouth after a few rough drifts. still had a great day with about 15 fish, mostly browns and an 18lb brown which is a PB.

anyone looking for a good guide and fun trip, Lyle is top notch.

 

[Tyler0420]

18lb brown

Any pics?

 

[rockin-steelhead]

It’s a monster brown…I’ve seen a pic of it…good too hear you had a great time