They eventually relocated to Sodus Bay several years later. He nurtured his love of fishing in Lake Ontario in 1986 when his grandparents would visit Upstate to camp and fish. He bought his own lake boat and has been fishing the waters of Lake Ontario ever since.įirst Mate Andy Bliss, 43, also a downstater who grew up in Nyack, just north of New York City, caught his first fish - a snapper - in the Hudson River when he was 2. A stretch of life between the ages of 26-32 also saw him get experience in the fishing industry by working summers in the Alaskan salmon fisheries before settling back full-time in the Oswego area in 1989-90. When he was 23 he moved to the Oswego-Pulaski area to work the river and lake fishing seasons. So, he looked north to Lake Ontario as salmon and trout fishing was beginning to boom in the Central New York region. When he finally got his driver’s license and was ready to do more fishing on the Jersey Shore, the stripers fishing dried up. By the time he and his family moved back down to West Central, New Jersey, when he was 14 years old, fishing in the rural streams, reservoirs and ocean became a big part of his life. He moved upstate to Moravia in the Finger Lakes region on the southern end of Owasco Lake when he was 4. He has been fishing for as long as he can remember. Though they have been together as captain and first mate of one of Lake Ontario’s premier charter fishing boats, Cold Steel Sportfishing Charter, their experience as fishermen on the smallest of the Great Lakes became a calling from an early age for both.Ĭaptain Tom Burke, 58, was born in Brooklyn, where his father and uncle owned a marina. Tom Burke and Andy Bliss have been fishing Lake Ontario off the shores of Oswego together for nearly a quarter of a century. Tom Burke and First Mate Andy Bliss brings good, old memories - and 30 pounds of fresh fishīy Tom and Jerry Caraccioli Jerry (left) and Tom Caraccioli were guests of Cold Steel Sportfishing Charter and reeled in 11 king salmon, of which four ended up on their dinner table. A fishing trip on Lake Ontario with Capt.
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