Sweet Caroline

ya that is a king

Good, safe launch. Slippery Sinker is a great tackle shop and walking distance from the launch.

Shouldn't be too bad

Set up in 50-75 FOW and go north from there. Water depth changes fairly quick between 50 and 300ft, Keep an eye on surface temps and your graph. If temps start to drop more than a couple degrees stay on the warmer side of the break. If you are marking fish, try and keep your spread near the marks. Kings generally are caught >20ft below the surface all the way down to 100ft or more. Shouldn't have to put your rigs deeper than 100ft to find kings, although some folks like to fish super deep (100+) for larger kings this time of year down there. Coho/steelhead can be found in the top 20ft. I like to troll fairly fast keeping lure speed between 3-3.5mph. Use cores, dipseys, riggers. As a general rule, lead from downrigger ball to lure should decrease as you go deeper, i.e 20ft down 50-75ft, 60ft down 10-15ft. Any trolling spoon with some green/silver in it should work 90% of the time. You can try spoons with orange or pink in them if you are targeting coho/steelhead in the top 20ft. These are just general guidelines to follow which should get you some fish. Hope this helps and let us know how you make out. DR

Why fix it if it ain't broken....just saying If you can't catch kings these days it is the conditions not for a lack of kings. Putting more kings in the lake would not help the poor fishing we had down at Niagara this Spring. I fished the late 80s and 90s when stocking was higher and alewife populations were insane. Catch rates were actually worse for me back then. I remember the Spring and Fall fishing being excellent but the Summer fishery was dismal. Seems like we have a good balance right now. Couple observations that seem to contradict an over abundance of bait: 1. No 40lb kings like there used to be. 2. Catch rates are at a all time high. My two cents

Lakers only

Fished the bar today and didn't see any ice

is the boom fully out now? cant imagine there is much ice left at this point? looks like river water has warmed up recently as well. thanks in advance for any info on this

Thanks. Been good all over. What port are you referring to?

Was either the Spring of 1995/96 when there was a late release. Ice was still coming out of the river almost all the way down to Wilson. Fished on the edge of the flow and caught laker after laker, couple steelies. No kings to be found.