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Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes that provide a border between Canada and United States. It is the 14th largest lake in the world. Lake Ontario is 193 miles long and 53 miles wide, with 726 miles of shoreline. Its average depth is 283 feet, and its maximum depth is over 800 feet. The main inlet is the Niagara River which is the outlet for Lake Erie. The only outlet for Lake Ontario is the St. Lawrence River that leads to the Atlantic Ocean.
A Lake Ontario fishing charter trip may result with an encounter of the following species of fish brown trout, coho salmon, lake trout, rainbow trout, king salmon, atlantic salmon, walleye, bass, and perch. Early spring is the best time to fish for hungry trout and salmon. After a long cold hard winter trout, salmon, bass, and walleye will be looking to feed ravenously. The baitfish will be seeking warmer water and will move in closer to the shoreline. Running stickbaits off planner boards in the spring is deadly method to target these hungry fish. Casting stickbaits from shore in the early spring is also a very productive method as well.
The key to great spring fishing is to find the stained water along the shoreline. Using planner boards run brightly colored stickbaits in orange, red, yellow and pink color combinations into the darker water, and on the clear side run darker colored lures in black, silver, green, and blue. Also try different size plugs to match the size of the baitfish they may me feeding on. Sometimes it may be necessary to add a small split shot a few feet in front of the stickbait to get the plug down if the stained water carries out to water a depth of more than 15 feet deep. You may also run a spoon or stickbait on flat line behind the boat as well. Fish may be taken with down riggers set 2 to 6 feet deep with a long lead say 30 to 60 feet back. When using down riggers in close pay attention to the water depth so you don't hang them up on the bottom.
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