LOTSA 2025 Salmon School

[Niagara Fishing Show]

The Greater Niagara Fishing Expo coming up this February 13-16, 2025 will again host the highly acclaimed LOTSA (Lake Ontario Trout & Salmon Association) Salmon School.

The School will offer those Lake Ontario anglers who love catching Kings, the opportunity to continue to improve their skills in advance of the 2025 season. For the past 14 years, LOTSA has offered this event which has sold out every year. Many attendees come back year after year because they understand that increasing their skills each year gives them the best chance to be more successful catching Kings the upcoming year.  Even though the School is over 3 months away, over 50 % of the seats are already sold!  

There is no other education source that provides anything close to this opportunity!  For those that attended in 2024, the value of the “Captains Bag” that each attendee received with the instructors “go to” baits alone exceeded the ticket price for the School!  Not to mention the over $6,000 in door prizes that attendees left with in addition to the food stations and drinks on Friday, Hot Buffet on Saturday, Four day pass to the Greater Niagara Fishing Expo to see and buy from the top Exhibitors of Lake Ontario gear and a free LOTSA membership! All in a comfortable facility on a weekend in February surrounded by anglers who have the same passion for fishing Kings that you do!

This is a unique “Custom” offering which is specifically built to cover the Salmon Fishing questions and topics that were submitted by each attendee when they registered. It is not an “off the shelf” offering that may or may not cover what each attendee requires. The instructors will use this input plus add what they think is most important to create a custom offering just for the 2025 School. The value of this can be seen in some of the catches by our 2024 Salmon School attendees who caught the 2024 Grand Prize Salmon in both the Spring and Summer LOC Derbies along with the first place Summer LOC Derby Salmon!  

Capt. Pete Alex (Lake Ontario west end and north shore), Capt. Rob Westcott (Lake Ontario central & west ends) and Capt. Casey Prisco (Lake Ontario east & west ends) are the instructors for the 2025 School. New for this year will be a guest Instructor (Captain Roy Letcher). Roy will provide a presentation on his specialty and what he is well known around the lake for, catching some of the biggest Kings caught in the lake year after year. The school again will be targeted for the experienced Lake Ontario Salmon Angler. Pete, Rob and Casey will provide a thorough walkthrough of each of their most important skills including the mental component Before, During and After their time on the water; along with the specific tools and techniques they utilize to make them consistently successful chasing Kings. The focus will be on the 3 main (open lake) Lake Ontario Salmon fishing periods (May, June/July, and August) and dive into the more technical aspects for each of these months relating to location, the "right" water, deep-water King tactics, locating and catching offshore Kings and on fishing "meat" among many other tactics. A significant amount of time will be spent on how each of them maximize the use of their Electronics to consistently be successful. Included throughout the day will be detailed video footage that will facilitate the learning process.

Click here for more details and to register LOTSA Salmon School | Greater Niagara Fishing Expo