ice on olcot

[theone]

anybody been out to olcot. hoping the ice was safe

[TCFIREBOUNCER]

i would not  trust the ice on olcott harbor if my life depended on it ! you have a warm water flow coming down that creek constantly from the burt dam , any ice on that harbor will be unsafe right now

[theone]

thanks, i've never been and just heard a little something about it

[slabspanker]

i have been curious about the water SOUTH of the dam. it must have fish and the water is slow moving there...

[haugwincher]

i have been curious about the water SOUTH of the dam. it must have fish and the water is slow moving there...

Tons of crappies wouldn,t eat them though, put a couple hundred in a pond behind my dads house 10yrs ago theyre 13 to 16in. now!

[burtbomberz]

stay out of the channel and you should be okay...check as you go..don't go if there is any kind of warming/thaw.  You could tie a rope to docks if unsure .  Dont go past the launches. Lots of fish above the damn, but I agree, wouldn't eat anything above the damn, and only a perch below

[Irish Jigger]

Whats up with the water above the dam that you wouldn't eat fish from there? Lake ontario is the worst of the worst and according to the biologists I work with it's only the fish with long lifespans or bottom feeders you have to worry about, panfish supposedly dont live long enough to build up toxins like the trout, walleye, and other large fish.

[burtbomberz]

above the damn is the worst of the worst of the worst!  Two chemical plants on the creek back in the day.  as a local have heard stories of testing being done and the deep areas corroding equipement.  most of the truly nasty areas are behind the damns probably covered by sediment.  Eat'em if you want, but the reason lake ontario is so bad is because of creeks like this.  I think the advisery is to eat NO fish from this creek, though I will eat fish from the lake...in moderation, and only panfish.

[lpv89]

Love fishing the open water above the damn.

anything from gills around 10" to bass to 6 pounds 

ive even pulled eyes out of there!

[burtbomberz]

Its great up there because most of the locals know to throw them back...but ist is very good fishing for sport.  I've heard of trout being caught there too...anything in the canal/river can make its way to there...i am waiting to catch a musky or a a tiger musky one of these days.

[slabspanker]

HERE IS HOW TO FISH FOR FOOD IN OLCOTT:TELL THE WIFE YER GOING FISHING, PACK YOUR GEAR PICK UP YER BUDDY ETC. LEAVE THE GEAR IN YER VEHICLE AND WALK TO MARINER'S LANDING FOR SOME GOOD FOOD & DRINKS.

[burtbomberz]

The timeout is nice too for bar food, and at least your looking at the harbor , so in a away you are not lying!

[lpv89]

HAHA.. ya

up above that damn its freaky.

i had a monster bass on about 3 years ago.

no lie. i really though i had a lockness monster he snapped me off at the boat.


it may have been a state record. words can not explain how big this LG mouth was.

  best lure up top there has to be a shad rap size 7 in shad color

[burtbomberz]

Caught quite a few big ones up there.  Last year I caught one while in my float tube and the thing pulled me all over before i got him in.  I do real well early in the season by the bridge area with big brown tube jigs thrown under the trees right up on the bank.  I caught a couple on shad raps and rattle traps, and spinner baits too.  Lots of pike and huge crappie there too.  Its always hard throwing those back.

[jumbo1970]

IT REALLY SUCKS FISHING THERE WHEN YOUR POUNDING 12-14 INCH CALICO`S AND THERE GLOWING FROM THE CHEMICALS..NUCLEAR FISH FRY    WOULDN`T TRUST THE ICE

[burtbomberz]

went down to the harbor today..looks like someone was on the ice but it looked a little funky..big cracks then refroze.  As a person who has ice fished the harbor I don't think that I would go out yet.