1000 Islands NY Fishing Report

[Gerry Zagorski]

Just got back on Sunday from a 4 day trip up to the 1000 Islands. For those of you not familiar with the area, it's 100 miles north of Syracuse on the Canadian border where Lake Ontario forms a delta that feeds into the St Lawrence River. The delta is dotted with over 1000 Islands and the water is crystal clear because of Zebra muscles. Easily 50 foot visibility.

Our group of 7 met up first thing Wednesday morning 5/23, loaded up the boats with all our provisions and ran over to the 100 year old home we rented on Grindstone Island that serves as our base of operations. Nice place with a big kitchen, old soft beds and a wrap around porch on the St Lawrence River with a view that is fitting of a post card.

Once we got settled in we split up on the boats and started fishing. Your are not allowed to fish for Smallies this time of year in the Great Lakes areas, but as many of you know, the St Lawrence is practically polluted with them and you can't avoid them while fishing for Pike.

Best trip we had for the 27 years we've been going up. The weather was perfect and the fishing was lights out every day. Pike, Smallies, a few Large Mouth and even a Gar all carefully released. Most fish caught on Panther Martin spinners, a few on Meps and in one of the back bays the guys had a blast one late afternoon throwing surface baits like Hula Poppers. I saw a Musky swim by that was the size of my leg

Ate, drank, fished and laughed too much. A great way to get away from it all and spend some quality time with great friends.

[Wilson]

I'll be heading to Alexandria Bay in a couple of weeks. Glad to hear the PM's where working, cause I have a ton of them
Was there any special pattern (gold- silver) that was better then others?

[bunker dunker]

Glad Ya Had A Great Trip.gotta Love Those Smallies.

[kcritch]

Way Jealous....Looks like an awesome trip.

Thanks for sharing.

[AndyS]

Nice !!

[Art Berkman]

Good Stuff !!!

[Lard Almighty]

Sounds like you had a great time. I've been meaning to look into fishing the 1000 Islands myself.

Love that last pic. Redneck tour bus!

[Gerry Zagorski]

Wilson the Panther Martin spinner with a gold blade, black body with yellow dots size 9 is the ticket. The only lure you'll need. Reel it just slow enough to keep it off the bottom and you'll be all smiles all day.

If you want more specifics pm me your phone number and we can talk.

[Gerry Zagorski]

Lard that redneck tour bus was awesome. The guy Herb who rented us the house offered us a narrated tour of the island and since its an island and you need to bring things over on a barge, things on the island lets just say are used way past their normal life expectancy

Any way, the island is steep in history hand very colorful people. Only 7 year round residents on the island and Herb introduced us to them all and narrated the whole way. Very cool and a real treat.

Sounds like a great trip......I need to get up there w/ the wife for a 3 day weekend to relax from work and fish this summer.....thanks for the report