Syracuse.com - Sept. 9-11: Salmon starting to make their way up Salmon and Oswego rivers

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The perch bite on Oneida Lake continues to be good, particularly in front of Cleveland.

CNY FISHING FORECAST

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LAKE ONTARIO

Salmon are being taken in 60 to 100 feet of water. Good baits continue to be flashers and flies, cut bait, large spoons and J-plugs. Good colors have been green, chrome, white, glow green ladder back and gold.

SALMON RIVER

The river has gone up and some salmon have started to make their way upstream.

OSWEGO RIVER

River level has gone up, and some salmon have started trickling into the river from the lake.

ONEIDA LAKE

Perch bite continues to be good, particularly in front of Cleveland. Anglers are getting them in the weedbeds in 10 to 20 feet of water, using small crayfish, a little piece of worm on a hook or tipping a small spinner with a piece of a worm or fathead minnow. Walleye bite is still slow but will probably change with cooler temperatures. Those being caught are being taken in deeper water or early in the morning. Evening bass bite has also picked up. Try a topwater lure.

CAYUGA LAKE

Lake trout, Atlantic salmon and brown trout are still hitting for anglers trolling with spoons or flashers and flies off downriggers, Dipsey divers, lead core and copper. Fishing 50 to 90 feet down over 100 to 350 feet of water is still a good starting point. Running Dipseys back 200 to 300 feet and running copper at 450 to 500 feet have also been good starting lengths. Good colors have been white, green, purple and blue. Vertical jigging with plastics continues to be good from 65 to 85 feet of water. Some nice brown trout are also being taken by anglers vertical jigging for lake trout.

SENECA LAKE

Lake trout are being taken on spoons and flashers and flies fished down 100 feet over 150 feet of water. Trolling very slow, 1 mph, with blue and silver baits has been working well. Vertical jigging with chartreuse plastics has also been good for lake trout in 65 to 95 feet of water. Anglers trolling very close to bottom are also catching some large brown trout. Smallmouth bass and yellow perch are hitting on crayfish and minnows fished off the pier. Anglers fishing large minnows under bobbers are catching some northern pike around Sampson.

OWASCO LAKE

Bass bite was strong last week. Nothing new to report this week. Very few anglers getting out because of the rain.

OTISCO LAKE

Smallmouth bass fishing continues to be fair in 35 to 40 feet of water on drop-shot rigs. Tiger muskies are being caught along weed edges on swimbaits, stickbaits and large spinners.

SKANEATELES LAKE

Trolling 45 feet down with perch-colored spoons is producing lake trout and Atlantic salmon. Smallmouth bass and rock bass are hitting along the shore out to about 40 feet of water for anglers fishing with tube baits, super flukes, drop-shot rigs and crayfish. Yellow perch fishing is starting to pick up, and they are being taken on small minnows or crayfish.

SODUS BAY

Largemouth bass are still hitting Senko-style baits, and a few pike are being taken on large spoons.

SANDY POND

Largemouth bass are still being taken by anglers using a variety of Texas-rigged plastic baits and topwater baits.

ST. LAWRENCE RIVER

Walleye and smallmouth bass bite have been good this week, as well northern pike. Muskie bite is expected to begin shortly. No reports on perch fishing.

WHITNEY POINT RESERVOIR

Water is high and brown. Very few anglers out on the reservoir this week. Nothing else to report.

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