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And Erie is flowed into from Michigan/Huron And Lake Superior waters.

All four of our Great Lakes system are at record levels this year. They eventually drain and flow through Lake Ontario. Rainfall records are falling this year. Plan on living with it this year. Put in floating docks or wear hip boots now. Things will get worse, its just Mother Nature now, Albany can not help you.Just help yohttps://www.mlive.com/weather/2020/05/staggering-amount-of-water-added-to-lake-michigan-and-lake-huron-in-past-2-weeks.htmlur self.

It is illegal on both sides now to cross over the border line now for recreation fishing and boating. Contests are returning Canadian entries to the applicants.On the lower Niagara River be aware especially heading up to Devil's Hole , the Peace Bridge area and the West River around Grand Island shoreline. Your Ontario Fishing license will not get you off any charges unless you launch from Canada but the border is now closed at the Bridges.

Brown trout are available all year. During the warm summer water temperatures find where the thermocline meets the bottom and fish there. Browns are not pelagic suspended fish but bottom oriented. Someone is going to bring in a 36 inch Brown Trout one of these days and those King Salmon specialists will start to change their ways. Remember they do not die after spawning but continue to grow to real old age. In European waters they travel to the sea for forage and return to fresh water streams to reproduce. Bring a Brown Trout close to your boat and the battle starts there.

Cabelas/Bass Pro in Cheektowaga off the I90 is open with a lot of selections, maybe too much. Do not take your wife as clothing is their biggest seller.

East type winds blow warm surface waters to the west. Colder bottom water upwells and the fish metabolism and feeding stops. During warm summer west winds the warm water stacks up on the east end and the fish flee to cooler waters.Offshore winds on the south shore cause cold water up wellings in the summer and the thermocline should be sought as that the fish will congregate. The thermocline is where warm and cold waters mix.

Gale warnings today for the upper lakes, not good for the weekend.

Beware of the ignorant people who refuse to take direction. If you fail to straighten them out, you are part of the problem

Lake Erie really takes off after Memorial Day while then Lake Ontario starts calling for more offshore fishing. Lake Erie fishing after July first starts off Sturgeon Point. High water temperatures move the fish west of Silver Creek.

The Sluice pipes in the Black Rock Canal below the Peace Bridge are 3/4 full now increasing the Niagara River Flow. Normally they are designed to be empty.

With all the high water in the Great Lakes Basin, floating debris from trees, boat docks and stairs will cause you to be extra cautious out there traveling at high speed.

The DEC had a program on the upper Niagara River Islands here the cormorants nesting there were killing the trees. They used 22 shorts to take them down from trees. Also they vegetable oiled the eggs in the nests..