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Great job Brian and thank you for the detailed report.

No they have been in Maryland, Pa, and NJ for years in the susquehanna. it was going to happen sooner or later.. Problem is they eat everything, andf the last thing that river needs is another big eating machine.. River already has a huge population of channel cats, Muskies, and the Flatheads out eat both of those... The walleye and SMB populations were already stressed, and something that gets huge and can eat lots of them can't be a good thing.. Walleyes especially are way down in population.. at one time it was nothing to catch 10-20 small sub 10 inch walleyes in an hour,, They were everywhere, and you could not get away from them sometimes, rushing to your lure before the big ones.. Then over a few years, we noticed that the smaller juvenile walleyes that drove us crazy were gone, and mature fish became less abundant each year, until last year, ALL year, our catch for the entire year was 3 fish.. This year to date we have caught one... Something has stressed the population badly. of both SMB and Walleyes.. Flatheads can't be helping..bob

Went out this morning picked up 1 decent steelhead 75 down over 130 and had 1 knock off but that was it but their was a tree and a few decent size branches floating around in the bay so be careful going out

Not aware they're on Lake Ontario...yet. But if you see one, I'd suggest you put the potato launcher away. They're Salidrones, employed by USCG.

So where's the Lake Guardian? In Lake Michigan: doing survey and headed back to port.

Similar, but farther from Mid Lake and closer to shore. Survey boats much closer to shore.

Went out for a quick trip yesterday evening. Fished in 160 FOW. Northwest of the powerplant. On a westward troll. Caught this 28" steelhead at about 60'. On a orange and gold stinger. Headed home after that.

Head west of the nose in 95-120. Lots of kings in that zone. All meat bite for us. Spoons rotted.

Monroe County Offshore Classic Species Challenge and main event recap: Friday morning we left the creek in search of a brown for our box first. We dropped in West of the creek in 30’. We got the second rod down and the first rod fired with a 5lb brown. We decided to try to hang out a little while longer and try to upgrade that fish. A couple minutes later, the center rigger parked at 28’ with a Black UV tuxedo stingray took off with a nice 7-8 lb brown. We turned the boat north and charged the spread over to a king/steelhead spread. We troll North and trolled out to 250 and picked a decent steelhead and some small kings. We trolled back into 120 and headed West. Once we got West of Devils Nose, the screens lit up with fish. We boxed a 10lb king and continued searching. As we plugged West, we were marking some good lakers. Scott and I agreed we should drop a Hammerhead Froggy cowbell with a bullfrog Gambler Rig down and try to pluck a laker while we are trolling for a bigger king. I dropped the rig to the bottom and as it got set, the port rigger fired with an upgrade steelhead. As we caught that steelhead, the center rigger fired with a laker taking drag. After a good battle, we netted a 21.8lb lake trout. We pulled the laker rod out of the spread and went back to searching for a bigger king. Around 11 am, we boated a 16lbs king. We ended up upgrading our second steelhead with one a half pound bigger. Going to weigh in, we felt confident we were sitting in a great position to cash a check. At weigh in, we placed 2nd for the second time in three years. Congrats to Derek Wager with his winning box! Main event: Saturday morning we headed back to our water West of the nose. We set down in 95’ and the screen was blank. We bumped out to 115 and started marking fish. We plucked away at fish all morning but couldn’t keep bigger fish buttoned. At one point we lost 7 good fish in a row. Having a **** box, we decided to not weigh in. Congrats to Tom Allen and his crew on an impressive win. Thanks to Tim and Brandon for all the hard work you put into this event. Here is what worked best for us for two days: -Atommik UV Grinch meat rig - with a matching e-chip I made. -Hawks Tackle snowflake meat rig with the matching paddle. -Hawks Tackle UV green dot meat rig behind a green dot e-chip -Hammerhead Froggy 5/0 cowbell towing a Bullfrog regular Gambler Rig -Stinger Stingray UV black tuxedo -Stinger Stingray Froggy glow

SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's weird that they made it to NY ???

Went out of bald eagle; fished 3-5:30pm; fished 110 to 175 ft of water. 3 Dipsy rods and 2 snap weight:rods; 2 Dipsy out 150 to 190 on 2.5 setting with NBK and seasick waddles spoons; one mag dipsy out 120 with sliver flasher and green fly. One snap 6oz snap weight and one 12oz snap weight orange spoon on 6oz and blue dolphin spoon on 12oz rod; caught 1 steelhead on 6oz snap weight rod; caught nice king on flasher fly and 1 smaller king on NBK diver rod. Also swam by Hamlin park in shallow area before fishing. Water was cold but refreshing.

Thanks for the report

Cool fish. Not cool for the river, but since they are prevalent in the lower parts of the river , seems like it was only a matter of time…

Didn't know we had them. I'll research it.Thanks

Great job!

Went out to get the grandson laker. 100 to 130 FOW Did 6 lakers between 10:30 and 12:30 Everyone got a fish.

Great job.