Seasons Greetings!

Season Greetings! What a fantastic year! We would like to thank each and everyone of you for your support over the 2007 season.

It’s been almost a month since our last report and we’ve had our ups and downs with the fishing conditions in the past 30 days. The Niagara River has been dirty a lot this month making for some challenging fishing at times. Walleye fishing is a great back up plan when conditions are less then ideal for steelhead.

The Walleye don’t seem to mind the dirty water and still willingly eat jigs, regardless of how dirty the water is. Now you won’t get the same fight that a lake trout or steelhead will give you, but the Niagara River produces HUGE Walleye every year. Our biggest last week was 12lbs!

The current world record at 22.5lbs is from the Niagara River!

For those anglers that did time the conditions right this past month, we had some big number days for steelhead! No need to get into how many…………….but the fishing was great!!!

If your on the river and faced with dirty water conditions, don’t get frustrated. Try some of these tricks that have produced well for us in the past and keep producing fish each trip out!

1) Tie roe bags slightly bigger then normal. The size of a quarter or bigger will work best. Stick to brighter colours, like hot pink or flame orange and try using hot pink floaters inside the roe bag mixed in with the eggs.

2) Run a corky or spin’n’glow on the line first and run this with your roe bag. This will bulk up your presentation and give extra colour in the stained water. Again brighter colours.

3) A small piece of bright coloured yarn attached to your hook.

4) Live minnows with a corky or spin’n’glow in front.

5) 3-to-5” grubs in bright colours combined with a bright jig head has saved the bacon more then once.

If you have any questions regarding muddy water steelhead fishing, drop us an e-mail. We’ll be happy to help you. Don’t give up on fishing the Niagara just because the conditions are dirty! You can still catch fish on the river, with the right presentations.

Merry Christmas everyone!

See you on the river,

Paul Castellano

Cast Adventures

1-888-512-8127

www.castadventures.ca

November 29th 2007

What an amazing run we had since the last report! In the past two weeks the river conditions and fishing have been outstanding! The Niagara River has been running clear with current water temps in the 40’s. Bigger steelhead our now being landed each trip both from shore on Float Fishing trips and from the boat.

Roe bags and yarn files have taken the “bulk” of the fish with Kwick fish boating there share as well. From the boat depths of 10-30 feet is where we focused our efforts depending on daily conditions. On bright sunny days with the clearer water we found the steelhead holding in the deeper sections of the drifts, 22-30feet. When faced with overcast skies, fish were found in all depths, with shallower breaks like 10-to-15 feet producing good fish.

The weather has been all over the board, from warm and sunny, wet rainy days that never seem to let up, to the first snow fall of the season. Despite the constantly changing weather the fishing has remain very consistent!

We had our first “Grand Slam” of the season ( when an angler lands a Brown trout, Lake Trout and Steelhead all in the same day) accomplished by a 10 year old angler last week. Well Done!!!

On the last trip we pulled out the Fly rods and caught some beautiful steelhead and one nice lake trout from the boat! Lots of high flying jumps and we also did battle with a BIG mystery fish for 20 mins that almost spooled all the backing off the fly reel before hanging up on a ledge and breaking the line. This is truly “Extreme Fly Fishing”!!! What an exciting way to fish the Niagara!

Yarn files accounted for all the fish except for one silver steelhead that took an egg sucking leech. All this great Fly Fishing action was captured on film by “The New Fly Fisher” television show. The show will air in spring 2008. Stay tuned for dates.

For more information on Winter/Spring Fly Fishing opportunities on the Niagara River for Steelhead and Lake trout, contact us.

For those of you thinking of fishing the Niagara River this weekend, save the gas and time and wait for conditions to improve. With the strong SW winds in the past 48 hours the river is currently running muddy with very poor fishing conditions. You can contact us any time for the latest and current river conditions by e-mail.

See you on the river,

Paul Castellano

Cast Adventures

1-888-512-8127

www.castadventures.ca

November 14th 2007

If you’ve been waiting for conditions to improve for Steelhead fishing to book your Adventure, IT’S TIME!!!

The Niagara River fishing has been outstanding this past week! Steelhead are moving through the system in big schools. We’ve had great trips while float fishing during walk and wade adventures and fishing from the boat. Lots of high flying jumps and strong, powerful runs from these fall trout!

Current river conditions: water temperature is 51 and clear. Perfect!

Salmon and Brown trout roe tied in sizes 4 to 10 eggs. Colours; White, yellow, hot pink have been working well lately.

Planning your next fishing trip, Niagara River steelhead fishing is happening big time right now!

See you on the river,

Paul Castellano

Cast Adventures

1-888-512-8127

www.castadventures.ca

October 31st 2007

There have been some pretty windy days on the Lower Niagara, Upper Niagara and Lake Eire making for some challenging fishing conditions, But have still managed some nice fish on some recent trips.

Salmon fishing on the lower river has been tough with the warmer water temps! This is extremely late, on some trips we were faced with temps of 63. Water temperatures this week has finally hit the 50's. Last reading we took was 58. This will really get those trout moving up the river and start off the new season.

Muskie and Pike fishing on the upper river are good with reports coming in from other anglers of some giants being landed! We've landed some good Muskie and lots of smaller pike casting spinner baits and top waters.

Bass fishing this past few weeks has been hit or miss and Lake Erie has been too rough to venture far out in search of those big schools of feeding smallmouth.

Currently the River is dirty from the crazy winds we had last weekend, but improving . Top wind speeds on Saturday were 70km! We will post the river conditions when things improve. Hopefully by the end of the week it will be fishable!

Thanks for reading,

Best Regards,

Paul Castellano
Cast Adventures
1-888-512-8127
www.castadventures.ca

September - October 2007

Hello all,

It’s been an outstanding season! Lake Erie and the Niagara River have been nothing short of spectacular living up to their reputation as one of the greatest bass fisheries in the world! When weather conditions are good and the winds are light or off shore we’ve had great success fishing shallow on Lake Erie. With the clear water in the western end of the lake you can see bottom in 15 feet and less making for ideal sight fishing opportunities.

There is nothing more exciting than watching these big bass smash top waters! Poppers and zara spooks are excellent search lures when conditions are clam. Allowing you to cover lots of water, hunting for active schools of bass. If you’ve faced with wind and smaller waves, use jerk baits and spinner baits as your search baits.

Once you’ve located these schools of bass with top waters or other fast moving lures, working the area thoroughly with tubes and drop shot rigs will allow you to pick up the less aggressive fish. This one two punch has proven it’s self over the years and continues to catch bass for us each trip on this amazing body of water.

Cast Adventures picks for Bass on the Niagara and Lake Erie

Top waters:

-Poppers in blue/silver, black/silver (see page 274 in the 2007 Bass Pro Shops fishing master catalog)

-Zara spooks in silver, clear plastic, white, fire tiger (see page 270 in the 2007 Bass Pro Shops fishing master catalog)

Spinner Baits

-Bass Pro Shops Lazer eyes pro series: Double Willow ½ oz, 3/8 oz in white, white/Chartreuse (see page 302 in the 2007 Bass Pro Shops fishing master catalog)

* Always use a small trailer hook with your spinner bait to increase hook ups

Jerk baits

-Rapala X-raps in White, Hot pink, Clown (see page 277 in the 2007 Bass Pro Shops fishing master catalog)

Tubes and Drop shot bait

-Bass Pro Shops Tender Tubes in smoke/purple/black flake, Green Ppkn./pepper, Watermelon candy, green pumpkinseed/orange flake, Amber/black/green flake, Dark melon orange/copper, Neon salt&pepper. (See page 333 in the 2007 Bass Pro Shops fishing master catalog)

-Rig these on tube jig heads in 1/8 to ½ oz depending on depth, wind and waves

* These are just a few tubes that have worked well this past season. Always experiment and carry a good selection of different size and colour tubes when bass fishing on Lake Erie. Every day can be different, let the bass tell you what colour is working best!

- Drop shot baits: Strike Zone Tournament Tackle; Slammers in watermelon/black/red flake, Smoke/purple/silver flake

-we rigged these on red octopus hooks in size 4,6 with 1/8 to ½ oz drop shot weights 12-24inches below the hook. (See Page 382 and 378 in the Bass Pro Shop fishing master catalog)

Fall Bass fishing on the Niagara River and Lake Erie is on FIRE! This is one of the best times of year to land a monster smallmouth! The bass are staring to really bunch up and feed heavily before winter. Don’t hang up the bass tackle yet, some of the best bassn’ is yet to come!

Niagara Salmon

It’s that time of year again! The big kings of Lake Ontario are in the river and are STRONG fighting sport fish!!!

In addition to the King salmon, we’ve landed some nice Coho salmon which tend to run smaller that their bigger cousins, but make up for it with high flying jumps and super aggressive feeding behavior.

We’ve had several excellent trips casting glow spoons at night from the boat. 3/4oz no name glow spoons in glow/pink, glow/orange dots and 1/2oz Glow little Cleo’s work well with a super slow retrieve. We use a camera flash every ten casts or so to charge the glow spoons at night. During the day Float fishing with treated roe is the deal!!! Float fishing can be very exciting, but challenging to land these powerful salmon from shore.

The Niagara River is just starting to heat up; Steelhead and Brown trout are showing up and with the cooler nights were getting in the Niagara region, the fishing will only get better! Don’t miss out on the super hard fighting fall Steelhead and Salmon fishing on the Niagara River!!!

Contact us for available dates in October/November. Get out there and get them!!!

Thanks for reading and Best regards,

Paul Castellano

Cast Adventures

1-888-512-8127

www.castadventures.ca