Don Lehman

Todd William loves to fish New York’s Salmon River fall salmon and trout runs, but living in Vermont makes it tough to keep up with conditions, river changes and other important developments that greatly affect the fishing.
Knowing where to access the Salmon River and other Lake Ontario tributaries, water levels and which species are moving upstream and other factors that change rapidly are key to success during the fall tributary runs.

Rob Fiorentino, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Region 5 Fisheries Manager, spent a couple of days in mid-May at a dude ranch in the southern Adirondacks, trying to show highway workers how best to take care of the trout-filled streams that run underneath their roads.

The Schroon River is one of the most popular and productive trout streams in the southern Adirondacks, with its populations of stocked and wild trout and Atlantic salmon drawing anglers from around the Northeast.
Anglers who fish the Schroon recently received good news when New York State awarded funding that will provide better access to the river while also helping to protect water quality.