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
