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Fishing updates for Lake Erie, western Lake Ontario and their respective tributary streams, Niagara River and popular inland waters.
Report Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report- November 7, 2024. Fishing has picked up in the lower Niagara River with a few lake trout and walleye, improving steelhead numbers, and brown trout starting to show up in the lower drifts.
The NYS Canal Corporation releases water from the Erie Canal into Lake Ontario Tributaries in Western New York on an extended and pulsed schedule each fall to enhance trout and salmon fishing opportunities. Flowage schedule for fall/winter 2024 below.
View Niagara's weekly fishing report for information about fish activity, size and bait recommendations in Lake Ontario and the Upper and Lower Niagara River.
The Western New York region offers diverse fishing experiences, ranging from small headwater streams supporting native brook trout to the expansive waters of the Great Lakes, Niagara River, and St. Lawrence River and tributaries with world class fishing for a variety of species.
New statewide regulation for rainbow trout, brown trout, and splake in lakes and ponds. The season will now be open year-round, with a five-fish daily limit, any size, with a “no more than two longer than 12 inches” harvest rule. Statewide Atlantic salmon regulations will now allow for a year-round open season.
DEC Region 9 offers steelhead anglers an abundance of opportunities from the mighty lower Niagara River to Cattaraugus Creek, one of the premier streams in the state, to other smaller streams. These streams offer high quality lake-run steelhead fishing from November through April.