The Lake Ontario Counties Trout and Salmon Derby is in full swing and if you are going fishing on Lake Ontario, even for a day, it might be worth a derby ticket. Reports of 40-plus pound fish have ...

“The increase in 2005 seems to coincide with pen rearing of salmon and improved survival,” said Jana Lantry, aquatic biologist for the Lake Ontario Unit of the DEC. “It could possibly be that we were ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – 18 Sports’ Big Fish Summer rolls on with another great catch. Presented by Valley Wholesale Bait & Tackle, we honor another impressive fish. Congrats to Owen Rumsey, who hauled ...

With rain on the horizon, we are looking for that salmon bite using the simplest of techniques - and that's flat line trolling using the American Smelt, deep dive lure. As always until next time, good ...

Jeff Howe, of Weedsport, holds up two chinook salmon he caught recently. He wrote,: "Dave, recently I was fishing on the lake side of a Lake Ontario tributary, and caught these two healthy males on a ...