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Steve Piatt: The anticipation, excitement of Opening Day never dissipates

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Pennsylvania /

Opening Day takes on a variety of meanings for sportsmen, but one common denominator is the anticipation and optimism that comes with it, whether we’re talking deer, bear, trout, walleye or pheasants.
Or spring gobblers. By the time the regular spring turkey season arrives, my wife, Paula, and I are bubbling with excitement, even after decades of pursuing longbeards.

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Steve Piatt: Unpacking the New York DEC’s deer dilemma

4 Comments / Discussions, Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, New York, Opinion /

Colonel Nathan Jessup – played by Jack Nicholson in the movie “A Few Good Men” – had it right when he defiantly stated on the witness stand, “You want us on that wall! You need us on that wall!”
He just didn’t know he was talking about deer hunters in New York State.

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Steve Piatt: Early wakeups, late nights, and gobblers just part of the spring routine

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Pennsylvania /

There’s a certain rhythm to spring gobbler season in our household, and even our two Labrador retrievers join in, dutifully jogging out to their backyard kennel in the morning darkness, apparently able to distinguish between our camouflaged Remington shotguns and the Browning Citori 20 gauges that send them into a dancing, whining celebration, knowing a pheasant hunt awaits.

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Want to apply for a big-game hunt in the Northeast? Here’s what to know

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Scott Comfort was logging in online to check the results of the annual Maine moose permit drawing last year when he got the news from a friend who beat him to the technological punch.
“An old customer of mine messaged me and said, ‘I see you got drawn,’” said Comfort, of Big Flats, N.Y., who was one of the lucky lottery winners after 15 years of applying for a coveted tag. “I knew the results are posted online at about 6 p.m., and I check every year.”
That was just the beginning of Comfort’s luck.

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New York’s Eastport Pine Barrens State Forest – a slice of Suffolk County

Hunting, Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York /

It might be surprising, to those who don’t live on Long Island to know there’s more than just some outstanding saltwater fishing at New York State’s easternmost locale.
There is some fine hunting available as well, if you do a little homework and jump through a couple regulatory hoops to gain access to state parcels where it’s allowed.

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Steve Piatt: Time for a rematch with the West Branch of the Delaware River

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

It wouldn’t be accurate to say I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the West Branch of the Delaware River because I’ve never really loved it.
That’s more of an indictment of my fly-fishing ability than it is the river itself, which has a well-earned reputation as arguably the best trout water east of the Mississippi. But “best” doesn’t equate to easy, and so many times I’ve stomped off the water after a frustrating evening casting to scores of rising fish, none of them rising to my flies.

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‘The Pool’ an overlooked Central Park fishing gem in New York City

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York /

“The Pool is one of the lesser-fished waters of Central Park, despite offering fishing access along most of its shoreline,” DEC Region 2 Fisheries Manager Melissa Cohen wrote in a 2022 report detailing a survey of the water. “Central Park Lake and the Harlem Meer receive most of the park’s fishing pressure.

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