Atlantics in the Great lakes
The Great Lakes do contain fishable populations of Atlantic Salmon. They are not widespread, like the Pacific salmon, but they are in the Lakes and can be caught. Last week, my friend, Dr. Garry Sack, travelled to the massive St. Mary’s River that connects Lake Superior to Lake Huron and caught his first Atlantic Salmon on a fly. What a great thrill to hook and land Salmo salar on a river of this magnitude. Both Garry and the fish are smiling at this feat.
Another fishable population exists in Lake Ontario and runs up the Salmon River in New York. This river was named for the Atlantic Salmon, by the way, and not for the Pacific Salmon for which it has become so well known.
Garry hoisting his first-ever Atlantic Salmon from the St. Mary’s River.