June Fishing In NY

  The main event this month is the fact that Bass season opens up later this month, and that is a long awaited occasion for most anglers. NY State has bass in almost all its waters. Some are more plentiful with Largemouth other have mostly Smallmouth, but both species are ranked highly by NY fisherman.

  Recent aquatic invaders like the zebra mussel and the round gobies have altered the food chain drastically. The smallmouth bass however have reacted in kind by finding an exploiting the round gobies as a food supply. Just for the record let it be known that it is against the law to possess or use gobies as bait in NY State.

  Lake Erie, Lake Onatrio, and the Niagara River have had exceptional bass fishing the the last few years with some of the heaviest fish ever. I would predict that the new NY State record smallmouth bass will be caught from this region sometime in the very near future. If you want to be famous book a smallmouth trip with a good guide and take a shot at 15 minutes of fame. One thing is for sure you will have a fantastic time and most likely catch the biggest bass of your life.

  The date was June 19. 2007 when Jim Fisher was fishing Lake Erie and competing in the Southtowns Walleye Tournament. He was fishing in an area just outside of the Buffalo Harbor around the Departure Buoy. The bait of choice was a black and copper spinner worm combo. That was the winning combination that got the attention of this fantastic 7 pound walleye.

  The Southtowns Walleye Association of WNY was started by a handful of anglers who wanted to save the walleye from over harvesting by commercial fishermen in the New York State waters of Lake Erie. As a result of their efforts gill netting was banned in the New York waters of Lake Erie

  In June of 2007 Scott Enist was fishing on Lake Erie with Captain Tim Braun of Brauns Outdoors. This was Scotts biggest bass to date and it weighed in at just under 7 pounds. He is looking forward to a return visit this summer and may even catch a bigger bass this year.

 Captain Tim Braun offers fantastic fishing for Smallmouth Bass on Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and the Niagara River. Regardless of your level of experience Captain Tim will try to teach you new fishing techniques to catch more and bigger smallmouth bass. With his guidance you will be able to learn how to locate fish in all conditions.

The date was June 29, 2006 when Carl H. Heckman from Farmingdale, New York, caught this 12 pound Weakfish aboard the open boat FISHFINDER fishing out of Captree State Park. The fish was caught on light spinning tackle using white Bass Assasins. on an evening trip 5pm to 9 pm.

The weakfish can be found from Nova Scotia to northern Florida. Weakfish can grow to 3 feet in length and close to 20 pounds. Weakfish feed mostly on herring, sand lance, silversides, croaker, spot, scup, killifishes, assorted shrimp, squid, crabs, worms, and clams.

The current state record weakfish was caught by Dennis Rooney, of Seaford, NY on October 11, 1984. This incredible fish weighed 19.2 pounds. Weakfish are starting to make a come back and are being caught more often by recreational fisherman.

   Pictured here is Gordon Bennett from Elmira NY. This is a photo of a hybrid striped bass caught from the Chemung River in June 0f 2001.The fish pictured is 7.5 lbs and 22.5 inches long. It took nearly 20 minutes to land this fish. I was using and a ultra light St. Croix rod. This was one of 6 that I had caught all year. It was released and could be caught again this year.This may not be one of the biggest hybrid bass ever caught, but very few people will ever catch one out of the Chemung River.

  The trout and salmon fishing in Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes remains fantastic, but they have moved farther off shore and deeper down trying to find the right temperature. At this time of the year the fish can picky and can move drasticaly around in the lake.