Mexico Bay Reports

[chowder]

Any current info on Mexico Bay salmon appreciated

[spoonfed-1]

2 hours ago, chowder said:

Any current info on Mexico Bay salmon appreciated

Sucks from I'm hearing.

[lrg355]

Semi sucks.  Working hard but getting a few.

[lrg355]

Way off normal for this time of year

[Hot Soup]

No temp, no bait, no fish, and no boats in sight 9/5/2025

[rswanson330]

Hrmph.
Maybe I'll just l stay down here and fish Long Island Sound.

[RH93]

Fished yesterday, got the snot kicked out of me. Rough with the wind. Water was pretty warm, 67 degrees at 90 was the coolest I could find. Wanted to go further north, but the south winds were too brutal. 

 

Ran into a decent pod of staging kings in 90 foot just north of the power plant. Nothing big. Two smaller males, was good to get them out of the gene pool lol. 

 

Caught them all on a UV Caddy Shack. 

 

 

[lrg355]

Fished yesterday afternoon/eve from 2pm to 7pm.  Motored out of Sandy Pond and headed to 140 ft in front of the Salmon river. Rough ride to get there but tolerable when trolling.  Good temp down in the 120 ft range. Only one 12 lb Coho on a Warrior Salmon Candy for nearly 4 1/2 hrs of trolling. Had a few boats nearby and never saw any activity on any of them.

[Hot Soup]

We had exact same as Irg on 9/6 - found small pocket of 52* water 120 down over 138 fow where we pulled 1 Coho. The small pocket of cool water then became larger - maybe 1000 radius and found 47* water but waves really kicked up. Should get good from here with better temps FINALLY moving in

[digitroll]

Double sucks.....  Most boats coming in to the cleaning stations are reporting 1 salmon brought in per boat.  We have landed 11 matures so far 5 of the last 7 days beginning on Labor Day afternoon.  We finish up today going out later after yesterdays violent west winds and the overnight rollers settle down later this am.  We did have two outings with 5 and 6 salmon and the other three days a release and a snap that opened Saturday on a screamer.   Sonar has been blank mostly and off the power plant there is bait but no marks on Saturday.  Lot of boats but no nets waving.   Tough.  

Edited September 8, 2025 by digitroll

[AnglingAddict]

2 hours ago, digitroll said:

Double sucks.....  Most boats coming in to the cleaning stations are reporting 1 salmon brought in per boat.  We have landed 11 matures so far 5 of the last 7 days beginning on Labor Day afternoon.  We finish up today going out later after yesterdays violent west winds and the overnight rollers settle down later this am.  We did have two outings with 5 and 6 salmon and the other three days a release and a snap that opened Saturday on a screamer.   Sonar has been blank mostly and off the power plant there is bait but no marks on Saturday.  Lot of boats but no nets waving.   Tough.  

We fished Saturday evening out of Oswego between the plant and 5 stacks and had a decent evening.  15 bites and scooped 10.  No coho all kings.  Couple good ones and a bunch of average ones.  Decent screen - not loaded but definitely fishable.  

[digitroll]

7 minutes ago, AnglingAddict said:

We fished Saturday evening out of Oswego between the plant and 5 stacks and had a decent evening.  15 bites and scooped 10.  No coho all kings.  Couple good ones and a bunch of average ones.  Decent screen - not loaded but definitely fishable.  

We saw a big group of boats over that way.   It's been tough from the plant to the river.  Good catch!

[rswanson330]

Great.
Please keep posting, I'm trying to get up there at least once this fall and want there to at least be a few fish in the area.

[digitroll]

We never got out today as it was too rough as the wind never really slowed down until 5 pm tonight.   We were checking the water out at the ramp at 2:00 pm at the Mexico ramp and had a chance to talk to the DEC fish creel census folks how the day went for the guys that got out with the big boats.    They said 1-2 salmon with most of them coho.

 

As our Lake O season is now over looking back we fished 17 out of 20 days this year.   Bar / Oak / Mexico areas.  Our king catch was 70% less than the last 3 seasons.  We have been spoiled by double digit catches nearly every day out of these 3 areas we fish the last 3 years.  Mostly a blank sonar screen this year.  Steelhead at the Oak was a bonus!

 

Homeward bound tomorrow early!  Back to the Bar in 2026 for the Loc derby!  

 

R 

Edited September 8, 2025 by digitroll

[AnglingAddict]

We plan to be out tomorrow morning - will post a report - leaving out of Oswego.  

[greenhornet73]

On 9/6/2025 at 8:58 AM, rswanson330 said:

Hrmph.
Maybe I'll just l stay down here and fish Long Island Sound.

I’m down here now for the week and nothing but porgies and dogfish from the beach.  Fishing mid-sound in Connecticut.  I have 3 more days to find bass. 

[rswanson330]

Shoot over to Charlestown, RI dusk and/or dawn.

[AnglingAddict]

We fished again yesterday morning out of Oswego - went out with a couple of my fishing buddies for some fun fishing for stagers.  Left the dock at 6am and ran out a touch east and set down in 130 fow to check temps to see how swampy it was.  120 feet down found 52 degrees so knew we would be OK - area was loaded with fish so we set up right there and started pushing east.  Hard south wind made the troll tough - very crabbed out going east/west but decided to give that a shot.  Took one quick shot on a 500 copper but missed.  A couple minutes later it went again - Hammertime chip with an A-TOM-MIK K41 fly.  16 pound king.  Missed on a rigger a few minutes later.   Decided to turn and troll back west wondering if it was directional - same rigger we missed on fired 15 minutes later - 23 pound king - that rigger was fishing in 60 degree water. Custom white paddle with another Kevin 41.  Trolled back through a bunch of fish without a touch and decided that we could get a better direction going North/South - wasn't sure what the screen would look like but made the turn out to see.   Fished 125 out to 350 for the next few hours. Did a few bites each pass with a couple of doubles but overall a steady pick with rods moving well all morning.  Called it quits around noon.  Amassed a total of 16 fish we fought for the morning and scooped 10.   Had a few more misses - quick on/off before we got to a diver or rod that never made it out of the holder.  Landed 4 nice coho and the rest kings.  Lost a couple good ones as well.  Had a meat rod in the water for a bit but changed that out for a fly later as it wasn't taking any bites and fished seemed to be very neutral toward it on the panoptics.  Made some small tweaks to the spread and got things going better.   500 coppers, Riggers out 115-135 feet of cable and a pair of wire divers on 20# wire.  Saw very few fish above 100 feet down on the graph.  Most fish seemed to be hanging between 110-125 feet down in the upper 50 degree water.  Ran a 5 rod spread which consisted of a chute copper, 2 divers on a 2 setting with 20# wire, and 2 corner riggers.  Left the center rigger out of the water which is my high rigger.  Didn't want to crowd the zone - paid off as we seemed to do better than most of the guys who were out yesterday that we talked to.

 

Best flies - A-Tom-Mik OG Hammer (T102), Crinkle Green (T023), Mirage (T097) and Kevin 41 (K041) took most of our fish.  I think we had one bite on a Stud fly early as well...Fishing is good if you can get out.  Definitely winding down...

Edited September 11, 2025 by AnglingAddict
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[Hot Soup]

Mexico Bay Saturday 9/13 from 4-7pm found temp, speed, bait, fish, but only went 1 for 3 on the only jplug we had out. Changed out often spoons to flies & green to white…Lockjaw ?

Edited September 14, 2025 by Hot Soup