Any angler who caught a few Lake Trout tipping the scales in the fifteen to sixteen pound range, would call it a good day on the water. Those pale in comparison to the monster the same charter fishing group landed on Lake Ontario out of Henderson Harbor.
Earlier this week, three Pennsylvania men booked a trip aboard Milky Way Charters guided by Captain Scott Durant. One of the angler trio was Frank Dziczek who was fishing on Lake Ontario for the first time, more than likely not to be his last. During their excursion the men managed to land nine Lake Trout with four of them weighing around fifteen to sixteen pounds. The days catch however, was a humongous thirty-six pound laker.
HENDERSON HARBOR â A nearly 40-pound trout that was caught this week knocked on the state recordâs door, but more importantly it gave Henderson Harbor more notoriety as a premier fishing spot in the north country.
Capt. Scott W. Durant has been a fishing guide in Henderson Harbor for more than 33 years, and the biggest catch heâs witnessed occurred in his Milky Way Fishing Charters boat on Tuesday.
One of his clients landed a 36-pound lake trout at around 7:30 a.m. after having left Henchen Marina. It was the clientâs first time on Lake Ontario. The fish was caught between the Stony Point Lighthouse and Sandy Pond, where the water is between 150 and 160 feet deep.
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Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report – May 20, 2021
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Finnan Murphy of Pittsford won the spring LOC Derby with this 26-pound, 10-ounce Niagara Bar king salmon. He caught it the last morning of the contest. Young 12-year-old Finnan Murphy of Pittsford was on cloud 9 last Sunday, May 16, the final day of the Lake Ontario Counties (LOC) Spring Trout and Salmon Derby. At 9:30 a.m., he hooked up with the biggest salmon of his young life while fishing out of Wilson, with Capt. Kip Mammano of RochesterSportfishing.com, Finnan’s father Shane, and two other father-son couples as part of an annual trip on this Great Lake. Thirty minutes later, they netted the winning 26-pound, 10-ounce salmon. Murphy won the Grand Prize, a check for $15,000! He beat out 76-year-old Walt Zebker of Grand Island with a 25-pound, 12-ounce king he reeled in fishing with Capt. Mike Mongan of Grand Island on the Niagara Bar. No matter how old you are, you still have a chance at catching a