The action on the Niagara is a shade slower than all of us expected.
The river itself has seen a resurgence of sorts in the last few years. The goby explosion has helped with that.
Back in the day this was primarily a largemouth fishery. Today smallmouth are more prevalent. And from reports its been exceptional at times.
We will likely see some of that this week. Today, though, we are under mostly cloudy skies.
With the depths we’ve seen (20- to 40-feet) that could be hampering the bite. Sun positions the fish on the ledges, humps and other cover. Powroznik for the most part is drifting, short distances, but all the same a drift.
The sun will break out in the next couple days and some of these weights will likely shoot up.
Right now it seems like a grind. Powroznik just hooked up with keeper No. 3. During the fight the 2-pound plus smallmouth jumped about 3-feet in the air and shook the lure.
On days like this, lost fish like that are key. Of course that helps Krieger more than it hurts Powroznik.