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Steve Piatt: Planning – and shooting – for success this hunting season

Featured, Features, Hunting, National Hunting, New York / Steve Piatt

It happens every year, usually when the calendar turns to August. I suddenly realize I haven’t done nearly enough fishing this summer; that both the dogs and I need to get in shape for the hunting season; and it’s time to shoot something – rifle, crossbow, shotgun – as often as possible over the next couple months.
Summer tends to blitz its way into fall around here, and while this year did, in fact, involve some Lake Erie walleye, Lake Ontario salmon, and plenty of camping, I’m embarrassed to say that we haven’t hit the Susquehanna River for smallmouth even though it’s a half-mile away.

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Fort Pond: Freshwater fun in saltwater country of New York’s Suffolk County

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York / Steve Piatt

When an angler thinks of Long Island, it’s easy to envision schools of stripers in a feeding frenzy, or fishing for summer flounder, bluefish, blackfish, or porgies. It’s a salt thing, right? Not necessarily.

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New York’s multi-use Deer Creek Marsh WMA provides access along Lake Ontario

Hunting, Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York / Steve Piatt

Deer Creek Marsh Wildlife Management Area in Oswego County is one of those state-owned tracts that offer a lot more than just wildlife.
Sure, the 1,771-acre parcel is popular with hunters, especially with waterfowlers, given its proximity to Lake Ontario, as well as with pheasant hunters, since it receives several rounds of stocked birds from the state’s Reynolds Game Farm.

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Steve Piatt: A rare outing where we actually had to fish for our limit of Lake Erie walleyes

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This was going to be easy.
The hard part – getting on the sometimes-surly Lake Erie – was over. Terry Catlin, of Chemung, N.Y.; my brother-in-law Don Stannard, visiting from Florida; and I were greeted by calm, almost flat conditions on the big lake that’s capable of keeping you shorebound, drinking coffee at Tim Horton’s while watching 5-foot and bigger waves crashing over the breakwall.

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New York’s decorated turkey caller, Paul Butski, poised for Legends of the Outdoors induction

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, New York, News / Steve Piatt

A hunting legend from New York State is set to be inducted into the Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame this month.
Paul Butski, generally regarded as one of the finest competition turkey callers in history, will receive the honor Saturday, Aug. 8.

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Steve Piatt: Will New York DEC’s new pheasant stocking plan fly?

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It’s no surprise that New York hunters have been most interested and most vocal about the upcoming changes to the state’s deer-hunting regulations, especially the “earn-a-second-buck” plan.
Deer and deer hunting, quite simply, drive hunter interest – and hunter satisfaction or dissatisfaction – pretty much across the country. But I’m just as interested, and perhaps moreso, in DEC’s newly-released pheasant management plan and the state’s proposal to use the birds as a tool in boosting the ranks of hunters, especially younger hunters.

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With the Woodstock crowd gone, quiet fishing opportunity is plentiful at White Lake in Sullivan County, N.Y.

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York / Steve Piatt

If you wanted to fish Sullivan County’s White Lake in mid-August of 1969, you might have had a difficult time getting to the 280-acre water.
That’s when an estimated 400,000-500,000 people descended upon the Town of Bethel, where White Lake is located, for the four-day Woodstock musical festival that brought legendary artists to Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm and became an historic event. These days, the quiet has returned to the hamlet of White Lake.

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Steve Piatt: Suffering through a fishing slump? Just keep fishing

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, New York / Steve Piatt

It’s not unusual – disappointing, yes – when a long-awaited trip simply doesn’t produce the kind of fishing you had hoped. It happens, more often than we admit, but you typically accept it with a shrug of the shoulders and move on to the next outing.
That was the case in late May when I headed to one of my favorite central Pennsylvania trout streams (Kettle Creek) for two nights of tent camping at a state park, with designs on hitting the Green Drake hatch and casting to scores of rising, cooperative trout.

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Snyder’s Lake a fine Rensselaer County bass fishery in New York

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York / Steve Piatt

You’ve heard the expression, “big things come in small packages.”
That might be applicable to Snyder’s Lake. Or maybe we could modify the phrase, stopping short of “big” and altering it to “solid.”

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Steve Piatt: Planning – and shooting – for success this hunting season

Fort Pond: Freshwater fun in saltwater country of New York’s Suffolk County

New York’s multi-use Deer Creek Marsh WMA provides access along Lake Ontario

Steve Piatt: A rare outing where we actually had to fish for our limit of Lake Erie walleyes

New York’s decorated turkey caller, Paul Butski, poised for Legends of the Outdoors induction

Steve Piatt: Will New York DEC’s new pheasant stocking plan fly?

With the Woodstock crowd gone, quiet fishing opportunity is plentiful at White Lake in Sullivan County, N.Y.

Steve Piatt: Suffering through a fishing slump? Just keep fishing

Snyder’s Lake a fine Rensselaer County bass fishery in New York

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