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Niagara Chrome

Captains & Crew

The crew on the water with you

When you book with us, you're not renting a boat — you're fishing alongside proven local anglers who genuinely want you to have the best day out there. Here's who you'll be out with.

Captain Jesse Swayze with two salmon beside the Niagara Chrome boat

Jesse Swayze

Captain · TinCan Sportfishing

Bronte · Grimsby · Port Dalhousie

Five years of salmon-derby fishing experience and a St. Catharines Game & Fish member, Jesse is a proven tournament angler with a wall full of derby results — and just as happy putting a first-timer on their best fish ever.

Tournament results

  • 2022 SCGFA Members Challenge — 2nd Place Salmon (29.02 lb)
  • 2022 SCGFA Memorial Salmon Slam — biggest fish overall & 2nd overall (29.02 lbs)
  • 2023 SCGFA Memorial Salmon Slam — 1st overall & biggest fish (20.68 lbs; 100.26 lbs total)
  • 2023 SCGFA Members Challenge — 3rd Salmon (24.32 lbs), 2nd Rainbow Trout (11.54 lbs)
  • SCGFA 3x3 Derby — 2nd Place overall main event
  • SCGFA 3x3 Derby — 1st high-performance division, 2nd overall main event
  • 2024 Salmon Dance — 3rd overall (42.40 lbs total)
  • 2024 SCGFA Memorial Salmon Slam — 3rd overall (75.88 lbs total)
  • 2025 3x3 Derby — 2nd overall main event (48.34 lbs)
  • 2025 SCGFA Memorial Salmon Slam — 3rd overall (106.88 lbs total)
  • 2025 Veterans Derby — 1st overall 'King of the Vets' (21.65 lbs) & 2nd biggest lake trout (34", 17 lbs)
  • 2025 Great Ontario Salmon Derby — Week 7, 14th place (28.78 lbs)
  • SCGFA Fall Derby — 2nd place (28.78 lbs)
  • Ken Fisher Memorial Derby — 1st overall (66.35 lbs)
Captain Nick Pozzobon with a Niagara River trout

Nick Pozzobon

Captain · Red Baron Outdoors

Lower Niagara River · Port Dalhousie

Over a decade of trout fishing on the lower Niagara River and Port Dalhousie. An active member of the St. Catharines Game & Fish Association and Bassmasters St. Catharines for over five years, and a competitive bass-tournament angler.

Proud members

Affiliations & memberships

We hold ourselves to the standards of the associations we belong to.

  • Ontario Sportfishing Guides Association

Local knowledge you can't fake

Between us we've spent decades reading these waters in every season. Whether it's your first time holding a rod or you're chasing a personal best, you'll have a captain in your corner the whole day.

  • Hands-on coaching all day — every experience level welcome
  • Tournament-proven tactics for targeting big fish
  • We know where they're biting, season by season
  • Your catch filleted and ready for the table
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