Lake Huron Rivers

[Float_On]

Does anyone know if the Nine Mile River gets a run of salmon?

It's my main stomping ground for rainbow in the fall, but I've never fished it early enough for salmon.

If so, would they travel as far up as the bows?

 

[LogJam]

Does anyone know if the Nine Mile River gets a run of salmon?

It's my main stomping ground for rainbow in the fall, but I've never fished it early enough for salmon.

If so, would they travel as far up as the bows?

they may have some trouble with the ladder in port albert, im sure more then a few will be near the mouth...
maitland should pick up soon.... if its there not running yet.
i hope

 

[Float_On]

they may have some trouble with the ladder in port albert, im sure more then a few will be near the mouth...
maitland should pick up soon.... if its there not running yet.
i hope

I did see some carcases last fall that could have been spent salmon, too decayed to tell for sure though...

Can salmon not use the ladder as easily?

 

[staffman]

The nine mile gets a run of both coho and chinook in the fall. Most fishermen cast or still fish at the mouth of the river. When there is enough water they will run up the river and if the fish ladder is working they can get upstream. If you go I would try the lake first , but they tend to move off shore by 9 AM unless it is overcast. The same lures that work on lake Ontario will work at Port Albert and the crowds aren't as bad.

 

[Float_On]

The nine mile gets a run of both coho and chinook in the fall. Most fishermen cast or still fish at the mouth of the river. When there is enough water they will run up the river and if the fish ladder is working they can get upstream. If you go I would try the lake first , but they tend to move off shore by 9 AM unless it is overcast. The same lures that work on lake Ontario will work at Port Albert and the crowds aren't as bad.

Why would the ladder not be working? Water too low?

With this cold front right now you'd think the steelies should be making it up early...we just need lots of rain.

I've never fished the mouth, not much for crowds. Just like to know if I could potentially get out on the stream for salmon before the bows crawl up.

I'm not really located well enough to hit GTA tribs for salmon, but can get to Huron in a jiffy.

Thanks for the info

 

[staffman]

The fish ladder at Port Albert can become clogged with logs and other crap and unless someone cleans it out fish cannot make it up the ladder. A friend of mine who has a cottage there is usually the guy that cleans out the ladder. Generally more attention is paid to the ladder in the spring when the trout are running and want to get upstream to spawn. The MNR do not care if Salmon want upstream to spawn ,because they do not believe that there is any natural reproduction generated by them. I do not know if this is true or not , but the nine mile river has better summer temperatures than most of the other tribs.

 

[kabes]

Fished Owen Sound from 5:00 - 9:00 this morning ... pretty tough day. They were jumping around but wouldn't hit anything ... only seen one caught.
Need some more rain for another run.

 

[Originalfive]

Been to meaford on friday morning, fishes were jumping like crazy at the harbour. Landed one nice silver chin.

Thornbury at the mouth in the early morning is good. We caught two steelies and I hooked onto a big salmon but it got away. Seen a few other guys take at least 3 steelies.