Don Lehman

The Schroon River, a tributary of the Hudson River in the southern Adirondacks, has long offered solid trout fishing, with the occasional landlocked Atlantic salmon appearing in the river from Schroon Lake.
In early May this year though, the Schroon River began yielding big salmon after big salmon, numerous fish approaching 8 pounds, drawing anglers from around the Northeast for what had become an unusual fishing opportunity. That opportunity came courtesy of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service fish hatcheries in Vermont.

Are wild lake trout that have become more prevalent in New York’s Lake Champlain better able to escape predation by sea lamprey? Some anglers and fisheries experts think that is the case, and with lake trout stocking on Champlain coming to an end after this year, lamprey wound rates will be closely watched to see if it can be confirmed.
Charter Boat Captain Mick Maynard, who operates Lake Champlain Fishing Charters in Chazy, has fished Champlain for the better part of five decades, and said he has noticed fewer lamprey wounds on wild lakers than stocked fish.

An outbreak of “whirling disease” in a New York State trout hatchery in Cattaraugus County will result in about 30% fewer brook trout being stocked from state hatcheries across New York this year.
The March outbreak of the parasitic disease at the Randolph hatchery came as the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation was preparing to start stocking for the spring trout season.