Like the Buffalo Bills’ run defense Monday night, things don’t look good in the Niagara River due to the high winds that blew through Western New York. The water is shot, but things could improve by the weekend, if not before. More wind is expected Saturday. Just prior to the windstorm, some good fishing was going on in the lower Niagara River for trout, with a mixed bag of other species. The fishing segment of “Meateater” is called “B Side” and Joe Cermele came to town with Jimmy Fee with “On the Water” magazine to fish a few days the tail end of last week. He also does a YouTube podcast called “Bent.” On the Niagara Bar, they caught roughly 18 fish that included lake trout, brown trout, whitefish and walleye. Top baits were Swim-n-shiner swimbaits from Strike King, as well as jigging spoons. In the river, they caught smallmouth bass using the same baits. They also caught steelhead and lake trout on the Artpark drift using MagLips off three-way rigs. The media duo was fishing with Capt. Frank Campbell of Lewiston. On another day, they hit Devil’s Hole hard with MagLips and caught a half-dozen steelhead to complete a show with decent weather conditions and a good mixed bag of fish. Check out themeateater.com/fish. Tommy Ortolano of Lake Effect Bait and Tackle in Tonawanda reports good catches of lake trout at Artpark on chartreuse beads and Chuck Booker chartreuse spinners from shore. Mike Rzucidlo of Niagara Falls hit the gorge shoreline in the lower river and managed to connect on three lake trout on No. 5 spinners with green tape on Sunday. Lisa Drabczyk of Creek Road Bait and Tackle in Lewiston confirmed that the shore action has been good, and those casters will be the first to connect following these turbid conditions. Beads also will work. Kwikfish and MagLips are working for boat drifters, along with beads. The planned installation of the Lake Erie-Niagara River ice boom is slated to begin Dec. 10.
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