For the most part, we are coming off a stellar year in 2024 on both of New York’s Great Lakes – Erie and Ontario. What happens in 2025 and beyond is anyone’s guess, but there are some things that we can do to help ensure a better future moving forward.
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It was a winter that didn’t want to let go … and a spring that didn’t want grab hold and give us some decent weather. Finally, Easter weekend, the ice (finally) departed Lake Erie in the eastern basin of the lake off of Buffalo, N.Y.
Now the waters can begin to warm, and the spring fishing can explode. Well, kind of.
Bill Hilts, Jr.: New York’s Lake Erie perch action heating up Read More »
New York’s Great Lakes are a success story in every sense of the word – my favorite bodies of water for nearly seven decades. I grew up on these waters and watched them grow into world class fisheries along the way.
Some of them needed a little help from fish managers, while others simply needed a nudge from Mother Nature. They have come a long way.
Von Ryan’s Express was a 1965 World War II adventure film starring Frank Sinatra. He played Colonel Joseph Ryan, and I was captivated by the film for several reasons.
One, it was the first film that I ever saw in the theatre. Second, it was the opening day of New York’s inland trout season, and it started raining so hard that this was our backup plan. I was 9 years old, and I still remember it like it was yesterday. Opening days have that kind of an impression on you, filling your memory banks of years gone by.
Jethro Gibbs in the hit television show NCIS stated time and time again rule number 39: There are no coincidences. For Capt. Lucas Falkner of Greece (Rochester), N.Y., he may have taken that a bit further with a belief in divine intervention.
The result was a new New York State typical crossbow buck Falkner connected with on the final day of the Southern Zone early archery and crossbow season in Steuben County.
New York hunter takes a record buck while grieving the death of his mother Read More »
The stage is set. You are feeling lucky as you are out fishing in Lake Ontario in early May off Wilson, N.Y. Fishing has been very good for king salmon and the spring Lake Ontario Counties Salmon and Trout Derby is going on. One big fish is all it takes for a $15,000 check.
“Fish on” as the downrigger releases and the line starts screaming out of the reel. However, something is wrong. The drag is not acting as it should as it stops and starts sporadically.
Bill Hilts, Jr.: Reel maintenance is important for fishing success Read More »
I worry about what the future holds for the outdoors and natural resources that are protected by hunters, fishermen and trappers year after year. As my generation gets older, will there be new blood infused into the stewardship necessary to protect, enhance and conserve the forests and waters of our great country?
It seems that whenever I question that, someone comes along that renews my faith in today’s youth movement. Logan Noon, a 15-year-old freshman at Newfane Central High School in New York, is an amazing kid. He started fishing at the age of 2. Like a snowball rolling north from the escarpment, his fishing passion has grown with each passing year.
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
Ernie Calandrelli of Lewiston, N.Y., truly believes he is one of the luckiest people on the planet. I would agree with him. He is one of the first people I ever wrote about when I began my freelance writing career with the Niagara Falls Gazette back in 1980. I still remember the column like it was yesterday, a piece on Calandrelli and his good friend, Paul Butski, of Niagara Falls.
The actual temperature was in the mid-teens and the wind chill took it into the single digits. It was cold!
I found myself on the back patio, despite the frigid temperatures, grilling a venison burger that was stuffed with blue cheese in the middle over a bed of hot coals. It had been a week or two since I grilled due to the weather conditions, and I refused to cook a burger inside. It wouldn’t take too long.
Bill Hilts, Jr.: Sometimes the cold just comes with an outdoor adventure Read More »
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