Pike or Trout?

[CabesaRoja]

Hey everybody!

I haven't posted anything in quite a long time, but I've been lurking around still lol. The fishing up here in the ADKs is done until ice-in, the cold shut the fish off about a month ago and I haven't been able to mark anything on my fishfinder to save my life let alone hook something.

I'll be coming this coming weekend, as well as later for Thanksgiving. With getting skunked constantly up here, I want to try and get some fish back home to satisfy my fishing itch.

Here's my question: What's biting? I mainly want to fish for either pike or trout, but I'm afraid that it may be too late in the season to go for pike, but I also don't know if the trout have started biting consistently since the fall stocking. What do you guys think would be more productive right now?

Thanks in advance for your help! Hope your lines are staying tight as the open water season is coming to a close!

[AndyS]

I say stick with the trout during the colder water/weather. I have seen great reports for trout right through the winter here. You can always hit the beach for some striped bass action also.

[Chrisper4694]

Any thing can be caught right now! This week I had pike, rainbows, lake trout, smallies, largies, brids, yellow perch, white perch, crappie, gills. Anything you want! MAKE them bite!

[gypsy]

Nothing biting in the Adirondacks?? Your fishing the wrong place, Lake Trout and Landlocked Salmon are biting big right now, I am heading up this weekend for some trolling and fly casting

[CabesaRoja]

Nothing biting in the Adirondacks?? Your fishing the wrong place, Lake Trout and Landlocked Salmon are biting big right now, I am heading up this weekend for some trolling and fly casting

Yeah, I haven't tried for them at all nor have I gone out on any lakes that hold good numbers of them. I also don't feel like I'd have enough experience to be able to catch them going out on my own. Maybe I'll try jigging spoons off the bottom as my one last open water trip up here just to give it a try anyways.

And everyone else, thanks for the advice! I may try one trip for pike on the Passaic this weekend, and when I come back for Thanksgiving I'll make a few trips to the Ramapo for some 'bows. Tight lines!

[Skunk City]

Lots of leaves floating down the Big P, I haven't done the Pike thing once this fall because of this. I'd imagine with live bait it'd be doable, but I hate picking leaves off every cast. Same problem on the trout streams I've fished.

[Chrisper4694]

i had no problem with the leaves last week, you should go check it out again. I was weaving the spinner bait through what little leaves were there floating down.