port dalhousie

[west lake charlie]

Any adivce for spring fishing out of port dalhousie on lake O?

What wind is best and any lure combos that pay off this time of year?

Thanks for all your input

[marth11]

port d is abnormally low this year and the trout bite is slow as well, you might get lucky on spoons and medium diving crankbaits, you'll catch trout and pike on those

[canadadude]

To be honest with you not many people if any have been out in the past week. The hurricane winds on the weekend and a steady East/ Northeast wind has been keeping most dudes on shore.

 

To answer your questions east and northeast winds over 20km/h are pretty much a no-go down here expect 4'+ chop,it usually takes the lake a day or so to settle aswell.Those winds are coming right down the lake and build up waves quick,however they can pile up some warmer water and fishing can be good once the wind starts coming in from the south/southwest. A strong Northwest can also make for difficult conditions aswell as north and fishing is tough in these winds aswell.

 

As for baits spoons,spoons,spoons and spin doctor/fly combos and did I mention spoons hehehehe.Use them off the riggers or wire/dippsey or braid/dippsey combos, 5 colour leadcore is a good ticket aswell right now.

[canadadude]

Just talked to a charter in St Catharines and he's been on a good school of coho off the niagara river this week, not big fish but tasty eaters and lots of action.Anything floresent red is good small dodgers red, pixie spoons red and such are working. When you get on them doubles and triples are the normal these are coho so when you hit them you get lots, there hitting the spoons in the prop wash aswell.

[west lake charlie]

Just talked to a charter in St Catharines and he's been on a good school of coho off the niagara river this week, not big fish but tasty eaters and lots of action.Anything floresent red is good small dodgers red, pixie spoons red and such are working. When you get on them doubles and triples are the normal these are coho so when you hit them you get lots, there hitting the spoons in the prop wash aswell.

[west lake charlie]

wow thanks for all the help!

[fishdawg]

wow thanks for all the help!

 

been a tough few weeks

winds havent been favorable for the small-mid sized boats... water temps keeep getting blown around and not allowing things to "set up" for long

 

canadadude has offered some good advice tho

[pikeguy]

I grew up in port weller as kids we would fish of the rocks from the canal lake side that is and we would catch fish from there lol. Kids we were so i dont remember what they were. But there is a boat lunch over there. It was never busy