tips on catching salmon
Ways to catch salmon vary from using downriggers to flatlineing.Lake ontario is by far the best place in the world to catch salmon.Were both chinnok and coho salmon world records have been caught.The best time to catch salmon on lake ontario is beginning of july to september and things really heat up in late augest and early september when the king and coho salmon mass in front of rivers for there spawn run down them.Ways to catch them in july are on downriggers and dipsey divers.Using doenriggers and should use large spoons.like pirate magnum size,northern king,etc.You shoud have a fishhawk or some other kind of tempature probe because the fish are in the tremocline.thats a layer of water that tempature changes constantly.Usally they are in 54 to 58 degrees of water.When you locate the right tempature put down the lures at the right depth.Dipsey divers are good when you use them becuase not all salmon stick toghter and you can get the wary ones that way becuase they sometimes are easily spook by downrigger balls.When augest comes you should start using dodgers and squids and start using cutbait.Cutbait is a peice of dead baitfish thats is put in a cutbait head or holder and then you have a line connected to a flasher and you put it down to the depth were the fish are at and the cutbait and flasher attracts the fish.Dodgers and sqiuds work the same way accept that the sqiud is a fake bait.When youfish for salmon youshould go a lillte faster then you do for trout.Around
2.0 to 2.5 miles and even faster sometimes.When the salmon get in there spawning stage they mass largely in front of rivers but most salmon migate to the eastern basin of lake ontario.Like around mexico bay,oswego and nine mile plant.This is were some of the best fishing for salmon is in the world.These times are usually around the middle of augest intel late september.All depending on weather conidtions.When you fish for these salmon youshould use cutbait rigs.I usally run two off the riggers and two on the dipseys.When you find a hot color stick with it for that day intel it doesn't produce anymore.When fishing this time of year you should use strong monoflucent line.20 to 30lb test is good.
