Leaving for a sick fishing trip.

You might catch eels in the ST. Lawrence

Greetings again all. Well, I wound up only going to one of the waters I named. The Black River. It was close and convenient, and I would have felt bad if I didn't give some time to the family while we were there. I did do some scouting on Chaumont Bay, Lake Ontario. Didn't bring the boat, just wanted to see if my boat could handle that bay. I think it can. Anyways, here how it went.

My fish finder barely marked any fish the whole time. Seemed like the fish were sticking very close to shore. Besides downed trees, there wasn't much cover or structure for the fish to hold onto. So, early on, didn't have my hopes set too high.

1st, I fished the shoreline that had gradual depth changes, and came up empty handed. Then I tried the other side of the river. It went quickly down to 14 or so. I threw a wally diver in a perch pattern next to a downed tree and came up with a decent smallie. It got crazy after that. I slowly drifted downstream and can't even count the number of fish pulled up. Especially pickeral. This place was loaded with them. So, I basically stuck with the sharp drop offs with the same lure all 4 days, morning and evening. Each outing just as good as the last, and the scenery was great.

Smallie, Rock Bass, Pickeral, Pike, Walleye, Yellow Perch, and 1 fish I've never caught before were all boated. After giving someone a description of it, I was told it was a sheepshead.

Anyways, if anyone is ever in that neck of the woods, I highly recommend this body of water. Just be careful of some shallow spots and a few big tree trunks where you wouldn't normally expect them.

yank same here when me and my buddy were fishing onieda this june. We caught and released using jigs tipped with worms about five of those 5 to 10lb. sheephead and I a mean bowfin we learned the identity of these species when we described to the regulars later on at the fish camp what we caught that day. I want to try for them fall walleyes from shore using stickbaits when they start reporting catches.

Mohawk Dan:  Have the walleyes turned on yet?  How have you fared at the SR this year?