Steelhead in the Salmon river

[Noon]

The past few years my brother has been fly fishing the salmon river in the fall and sending me pics that of fish I only dream about catching on the fly. He is not an ice fisherman (yet  ) but I am looking to make a trip back east to visit and would love to get after some of these big fish on the hardwater. If anyone could point me towards a thread that has information regarding landing some big fish through the ice it would be greatly appreciated. Living in Montana, where everything freezes, I do not know if Lake Ontario gets fishable ice near the Salmon river outlet, if the Salmon River Reservoir is fishable and holds any of the big fish, or where else I might look into going. I started to look at the fishing reports and conditions threads for NY but there are so many threads I did not even know how to start.

Any and all input, from locations, time of year, special gear, or otherwise is much appreciated.

Stay safe everyone and I hope you can start getting onto the ice soon. I'm headed up to some mountain lakes for my first ice of the season this weekend.

[swampking89]

I've caught steelies ice fishing on Henderson harbor fishing for crappies and sunnies!! Felt like a pannie bite until all my line went screaming off my reel!! Also caught steelies and browns in a marina on the Oswego river( Admiral Woolsey's I think) again jigging for perch and line just goes screaming!!

[fly_rodder]

There aren't any salmon or steelhead in the reservoir (lower or upper).  There's a dam there with no ladder or pathway for the fish.  I know there are walleye and various trout species in the upper res, but I'm not sure about ice fishing since the water level fluctuates. 

[bigal409]

If you want to get steelhead in the winter why not just fish the salmon river? The fish are in the river all winter. We do quite well catching them with a fly rod.

[Chowdaire]

I've done the morning on the ice on Oneida and the afternoon wading in the river a few times. Fresh walleyes and perch followed by some screaming drags makes for a nice day.