St. Lawrence

[Steady Eddy]

Evening all. I was hoping a few of you could give me your opinion on shore fishing the St. Lawrence River. I'm wondering if it gets as much pressure from shore anglers as the Ottawa River ?

Steady.

[nips]

There's not too much shore fishing pressure on the "larry" due to the fact that there's not too many good spots from shore unless your fishing for carp. The walleye are usually out deep. The long sault parkway has a few spots where bass can be caught off of shore as well. What species do you plan to target?

[Steady Eddy]

Probably be targeting mostly pike and bass, although I am not picky. I have no problems keeping a bench warm and waiting for a carp hit. I assume I would have to drive a day or 2 if I hoped to see a salmon ?

[nips]

well you never know, i know a guy that caught a salmon by iroqois but that was crap luck, kingston mills and further west towards the big lake for salmon

[Wabler]

I've heard rumours of browns in the Morrisburg stretch of the Larry. Maybe not much of stretch with stocking in the tribs on the NY side.

Any truth to that?

[bardern]

I've heard rumours of browns in the Morrisburg stretch of the Larry. Maybe not much of stretch with stocking in the tribs on the NY side.

Any truth to that?

I have fished that stretch for many years and I personnally have never nor heard of anyone catching a Brown. But like Nip said there have been incidental trout catches in the Morrisburg area. Over the years I have caught quite a few steelhead, small Kings and a couple of lakers but these were, like I said, incidental while I was fishing for bass, pike or walleye. There is supposed to be a small run of steelheads up the Hoasic but hardly enought to call it a fishery, the creek is too slow moving and warm to support much of a spawn.

For shore-line pike you might try the south facing bays on the Long Sault Parkway early in the season. But to be truthful the pike fishery on the St. Lawrence is a shadow of what is was 20 years ago.

[DropShotr]

I assume I would have to drive a day or 2 if I hoped to see a salmon ?

Your probably right about that.

There isn't a salmon within 200 miles of the eastern shore of Lake Ontario this early.

In the summer they will show in the eastern reaches of Lake Ontario and start to stage by the rivers in August. By the middle of September the run is in full swing. When the time is right a river like the Salmon River is alive............and just to witness it defys description.

I know of some creeks in the Brockville area that get the odd salmon, but it's just that, the odd one.
I agree with bardern, I've personally never herd of browns in this area and the other trout/salmon just "took the wrong turn at Albuquerque"

Who knows what the future will bring with the introduction of the Atlantic Salmon.


DS

[i got worms]

lots of incidentals over the years. i hooked a nice 6lb laker on a white bucktail near johnstown a few years back, saw a huge dead chinook wash-up on shore while goose hunting in morrisburg about ten years ago and my buddy lost a steelhead through the ice on the larry. every few years you'll see a photo in the newspaper of somebody with a big salmon hauled out of the larry. i guess some fish like to roam more than others.

Who knows what the future will bring with the introduction of the Atlantic Salmon.

it would actually be the re-introduction of atlantic salmon. they were native to the larry before construction of the locks and damns slowed the flow and silted up their spawning areas. i knew the mnr has been stocking a few of the lake ont tribs with atlantics but i have not heard of any attempt being made for the st. lawrence. i don't imagine they'd be very successfull today as the neccessary spawning grounds are still long gone...

[Astro-Mike]

Barden: got a nice pick of a brown caught out front of the monument at upper Canada village last spring.

as for shore fishing out of Morrisburg. you can catch some pike from the park at Mariatown.

for eyes in Morrisburg go down to the plant at the end of Augusta St. spent many a evening having some pints and fishing with friends there..

M

[DropShotr]

it would actually be the re-introduction of atlantic salmon.

Yea, I knew that too...........my bad.

I've herd of the incidental catches on the St. Lawrence over the years, and it does seem as though thay are becoming more numerous. How many times have we herd of salmon running up Buells and Jones creeks.
Over time the salmon and trout are slowly increasing their territory. I believe it would be fair to draw the same conclusions about the Atlantics. I realize this all years and years down the road, in all honesty probably a fishery of grandchildren of our grandchildren.

I've seen a monster of a sturgeon breach several times in the same area pf the St. Lawrence the last few years.

I've never caught a trout/salmon in the river....yet

Maybe I'll throw the downrigger in the boat and do some deeper trolling for walleye and see what I catch.

DS

[bardern]

[quote="Astro-Mike"]Barden: got a nice pick of a brown caught out front of the monument at upper Canada village last spring.

jeez and I did well to catch a couple of hammer handles there last year.

[Astro-Mike]

yeah me as well.

a good place to try in that area early spring is between the breakwater and the beach at crysler park.

as well drift out front of the park in Mariatown.

you going to hit the morrisburg pike tourney again this year?

M

[jab67ca]

I have had some nice catches (Pike,Bass and Pickerel)by the 2 bridges on the Thousand Islands Pkwy just east of Gananoque. This would be a great place to drop in a canoe. There is a small cove and it opens up into a nice size inlet.

[bardern]

yeah me as well.

a good place to try in that area early spring is between the breakwater and the beach at crysler park.

as well drift out front of the park in Mariatown.

you going to hit the morrisburg pike tourney again this year?

M

yeah I plan to be there Mike.