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HI all,
I am looking for any information I can find about fishing in and around Syracuse New York. I have a week long buisness trip (Oct 6 to Oct 10) and should have one day during the week that I can go fish. I have been looking online, but figured I would try on here as well.
I am an avid steelhead and trout fisherman (Idaho, Washington). I do however like all types of fish and fishing, BOAT, DRIFT, BANK, FLY..... So for the questions....
1. What is fishing best around (Oct 6- Oct 10)?
2. Does anyone know of a reputable guide?
3.Best place to fish( Onieda, Onondanga, Ontario, or streams)?
4. Any other useful info that may help me make a informed decision.
Thanks,
Forrest
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Bass_turd
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Last year I watched this fishing show on the river below Niagara Falls -- the Niagara River -- steelhead fishing!
They caught some beauties!
Here's a link to the guide: [url "http://niagarariverguides.com/"]http://niagarariverguides.com/[/url]
Doesn't look like too long of a drive from Syracuse.
162 miles - 2 hrs 30 mins.
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I grew up just west of Syracuse,in Rochester. Western New York is an awesome place for fishing addicts. I spent most of my youth fishing from a boat on the finger lakes; specifically, hemlock, canadice, Honeoye, and Conesus Lakes. For the timeframe you described, I would highly recommend you do a little research on the Pulaski River, just north of Oneida Lake. I have no personal experience on the river since I left for the military in 2006 and only started fly fishing a few years ago, but I have seen quite a few pictures of massive lake run brown trout taken while running up river during the fall.
You could also look into doing some smallmouth fishing on Cayuga, depending on your access to a boat, but I have heard rumors of an early winter in the Northeast.
Either way you go about it, please let us know what you end up doing and take lots of pictures!
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I grew up in upstate NY and ran a guide service before moving west.
You are going to be in NY at a great time to fish. The fish will have the feed bag on.
If you like the trout and salmon, then you should head up to Pulaski. It is the main river that Lake Ontario salmon use to migrate to the spawn. It is the river that NY has constructed the hatchery on so that the fish can swim right to it.
You will find all of the kinds of fishing you like to do right there and that time of year the whole town is about fishing and fishing. There are many guides, most of the best have been booked for months now for the time frame you will be there, both in the lake and on the river. That is not to say that the guides who are not booked are not good, just that the best are reserved well in advance.
It will be combat fishing, if you want solitude, that won't be happening, but with over 1,000,000 salmon entering the river between Sept. 1 and Oct. 31 there are plenty of fish to go around. You won't be shoulder to shoulder, but well within casting distance of other fishers.
Oneida lake is a warm water fishery, great perch and walleye if you want them, but most any guide in the area will be up on the big lake going for the big fish.
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