August 2025 Fishing Reports
Summer and warm weather remain upon us, with a refreshing break in the humidity levels. The forecast for this week is for temperatures to continue warming, accompanied by some increased humidity levels. There’s no significant rain or storms forecast, except for a slight chance of rain showers over the Niagara Frontier around mid-week. The summer has been relatively dry, and Lake levels are beginning to show a quicker drop toward the seasonal fall low. Anglers are out and about with good to moderate levels of trolling and rec traffic out of Point Breeze.
A couple of days of E winds at the end of last week had most guys back searching offshore. They were generally successful for the past weekend – still into mixed bag chances of Kings, cohos and steelhead. The cohos are getting bigger, with a handful of catches reportedly around the 20-pound mark. Then there are the guys still working the sometimes cold inside water, finding some browns and Atlantics to round out the mixed bag chances. The inside water looks to be setting back up again, and there are only light E or SE winds in the near-term forecast.
Some hawg salmon are being landed by both charters and rec anglers! Check out both big fish below for what the potential is to be hooked up for anglers fishing out of the Oak. Capt. Bob S. from Sunrise II charters says, “I’ve been fishing the mid water around the 25 – 27 lines or 200 – 450 fow and working NW and SE. Mainly spoons for me, a black magic being the best 40 to 85 ft down. Earlier it was a combo of spoons and flashers 55 – 100 ft down with a 200 mag diver with a green bam.”
One rec boat did a half-day excursion with nice rainbow and coho action for the early morning, all on spoons. Then later in the morning, they got into some teenage Kings that fought real hard and bigger, lazy, matures on meat off the riggers. They were over 350 fow on a NW troll set up 75 ft down. Coming back in later, they found good-looking temps around 175 fow. Mark and Teresa are a team who say, “We love fishing the Oak!”
