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That time of year tons of salmon are staging 80-120 feet out in front from salmon river to north pond. You will see a parade of boats out there for sure in those depths. When I owned a cottage on North pond I would go straight out of the channel and start in 80 foot then go out. Had some good days however staging kings are a pain in the ass to get to bite,,you will mark 100,000 fish and maybe get a couple,,sometimes more,,, some days. Usually I would start in close for stagers and if they are not biting then move deeper. Offshore 300-400 can be productive for 2 year olds if they are there.

Fished out of Port Ontario last few days. Summary of a couple trips,,,Lots of fish marks 110 to 130fow in front of the dunes. Had a hard time getting them to bite. Most productive water was 350-400 FOW in front of the plant,,,copper, 350-400 coppers, went well, riggers set in thermocline down 80-90 feet went well,,,all spoons,,,, Friday, Went 3 for 5, 2 salmon, 1 brown, today,,, (Saturday) went 4 for 9 on salmon out deep. All were around 10-14 lbs,,,Fleas were horrible yesterday, then better today. Fished until 11 am both days. Just the morning. Wasn't any boats around me.

Fished Braddocks out of West point Marina with the grandkids early this week. First time in that marina and it is beautiful with huge docks. No serious fishing took place, got out around 9-10 am a couple days, seemed to have decent marks in 100-120 FOW, went out to 250 picked up a nice 14 pound salmon and a decent steelhead. Heavy currents, and being an east end guy I am amazed that you can get good temperature down 60 feet after a hard blow like last weekend. Looked like good fish marks and probably could have done well if I could have got out earlierIMG_20260622_181156.heic

Ok thanks for the tip! I move around the lake from Mexico to wilson but not familiar with braddocks, the only reason I'm there is my son is flying out of rochester,,,,any way to get my kids and grandkids fishing,,,lol

Ah crap, thanks for the reports guys, I will be fishing braddocks on Monday Tuesday and appreciate your posts, I wouldn't care as much but I have a couple little grandkids I wanted to get a fish for them.

I'm rotting out of Mexico bay this morning, one cisco, only saw a couple boats out,,real slow. Only couple small browns yesterday. We used one of my magnum spoons to eat potato salad, that's the most spoon bites I've gotten

I am renting an Airbnb at bucks pond braddocks Bay area, I have a penn yan 255 intruder and want to know what Marina would be good for a transient slip for next weekend? Would prefer west of if you think the salmon fishing would be better that way. Thanks for any help

You can stay at the best Western in Oswego, right on the river, you can tie your boat right to the wall,,,come down in the morning, grab breakfast and hop on your boat just outside the door,,it's great,,,just have to pay a little more

Fished out of Oswego on Sunday afternoon and monday morning. Fog sucked on Monday. Some browns around the harbor seen caught, but I went deep looking for salmon. Trolled out to 320 feet and around, just couldn't find any salmon. Very Few marks but couldn't move a rod. Maybe someone else found something out there but not me, not much of a report.

15-25 fow,,,,my AP wasn't working well so I unplugged it, after that I just had an alarm and it wouldn't engage,,goofed around with it for a long time,,Sunday it magically started working again,,,,I have a 26 foot Penn yan intruder so it is pretty stable in the wind up to a point

Fished oswego Saturday and Sunday solo. Fished east of Port and caught 7 browns on Saturday, and a few on Sunday, surprisingly calm on Sunday morning, lots of browns around, chocolate water. NBK best spoon. My stupid auto pilot went out on Saturday in the strong south winds, so was fun trying to reel a fish in, I was the penn yan going in circles with the fish on. Only ran one down rigger rod and one floating rapala on the other rod but had fun.lol

Curious what your thoughts on when it's safe to put your I/O in the water then pull it out and leave it on a trailer. Other year I have put my boat in around April 20th, but would be nice to fish eater weekend this year,,,any thoughts on your dates or just watch the weather?

So as a first year panoptix user I've thoroughly enjoyed it. For my setup, because of the angle of my panoptix transducer, and the blowback on my rigger cables ,,the fish marks and depth come onto my traditional sonar a few seconds before the panoptix picks them up. Which is cool to watch,,,also the traditional sonar doesn't show which side of the boat the fish are on,,,port or starboard. But panoptix does,,,,Not sure how many more fish I've caught because of it,,lol,,,by adjusting the downrigger,,, as I've always adjusted before to the fish mark depth anyway. It's given me more confidence in traditional sonar when they show up on both sonars and shows more exactly what they are doing in and across the screen...not sure if this helps any,,but makes me watch screens more😁😁

My hats off to those charter guys in Oswego for putting browns in the boat for their clients, I could see the browns but couldn't get them to bite. And when I finally did catch one I cursed him and didn't want to bring him in the boat cause my family already went home! Yea, I know, northeast wind,,,Last weekend