OntarioFlyGuy

The guide should have re-scheduled your trip if it was Mon or Tues this week when you went. With the high winds this past weekend, the Eastern basin of Lake Erie was churned up and muddy. The result is a muddy Niagara River, and with poor visibility comes difficult fishing.

 

Here is an aerial view of the Eastern Basin and the muddy plume of water dumping into Lake Ontario (top right corner of photo). The file is from November 12th, early on in that big wind storm. It would have been significantly worse come Monday!

 

 

Best of luck in the future, don't give up on the River so easy though, it's truly world class! (when the conditions allow!)

We'll try it again but going solo next time.

Very impressed with the satellite image you attached.

What website do you get the satellite images from?

Have you considered going with NiagaraFishingAdventures. I hear they really know their stuff.

Thanks for the suggestion but I think we'll just go solo the next time.

60 guys crowding the whirlpool this morning can't all be wrong!

Yes there are steelhead, browns, lake trout, as well as a multitude of other species in the Niagara.

Not hooking up even once? It happens, but rarely.

Thanks for the feedback. We were fishing from a boat which supposedly gives access to the more inaccessible hot spots in the river.

Think that next time we'll just try shore fishing instead and save the guide fee.

After seeing a fishing show about the great Steelhead fishing on the Niagara River my wife and I decided to pay for a guided trip there.

Although our guide was friendly and seemed knowledable, unfortunately after fishing for 7 hrs we didn't hook a single Steelhead.

Makes me think twice about hiring a guide in the future.

Just wondering if the fishing shows exaggerate the excellence of some of these 'hot spots' or maybe we're just unlucky?

Has anyone else fished the Niagara river for Steelhead and had any success?