Who's Eating Who?...

This is a generic representation of the food web showing the main pathways. Food (energy) moves in the direction of the arrows. As shown in the food web, salmon and lake trout eat smaller fish such as alewife. In turn, humans are one of the main consumers of salmon and lake trout. To catch one of these delicious fish using a lure that mimics one of their prey is ideal, especially in the spring.

April Showers Bring May's Fish

By the month of April, most of the trout have made their way back into the depths of Lake Ontario. However some of the trout are still making their way back into the lake. With the spring sun warming the temperature of the water, other species of fish enter Lake Ontario's tributaries. While late steelhead and brown trout are leaving the rivers for the lake, small mouth bass and large mouth bass are entering the rivers to spawn. This is one of the most exciting times of the year to fish Lake Ontario's rivers.

Winter Comes

Except for last year, usually the rivers that flow into Lake Ontario freeze over by early December. Once the rivers freeze over the trout are trapped in the shallow water. By early March most of the ice is melted and out of the rivers and the trout go on a feeding frendzie. This is usually the time to catch the most and largest of the fish.

Early Fall Salmon Run

From late August until late October the steelhead and brown trout of Lake Ontario stage at the mouths of Lake Ontario's tributaries. The trout follow the salmon out of the great lake into the tributary rivers to feed on their eggs after they spawn.