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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 /

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.

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

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

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

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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Steve Piatt: Hatching a plan on Pennsylvania’s Kettle Creek

Featured, Features, Fishing, National Fishing, Pennsylvania /

Sometimes, especially when it involves a fishing trip, things don’t turn out the way you planned.
I can accept that, but admittedly was disappointed when a two-night camping trip tight to Kettle Creek, with designs on hitting the green drake hatch and fishing to rising trout was doused, literally, by heavy rains ahead of my Memorial Day visit. They left the popular stream running bank-full, made for difficult wading and nearly impossible fishing, and kept most anglers home.

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Steve Piatt: In what seems like the blink of an eye, hunting mentees become the mentors

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

Back in 2004, I took a 12-year-old kid on New York State’s first ever youth turkey hunt on a bitterly cold morning in the Adirondacks, with a temp that bottomed out at 18 degrees.
Still, we hunted. And after calling in a fisher on our first setup, we eventually located a pair of jakes that cooperated, and Jake Hooper had his first bird, in his excitement leaving his hunting license in the woods and not telling me about it until a week later.

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Record crappies, but changing times at Duck Lake in New York’s Cayuga County

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York /

There is more than one Duck Lake in New York State, but Cayuga County’s version stepped to the forefront back in 1998 when an angler caught a black crappie that established a new state record.
It was Kenneth Kierst whose 3-pound, 12-ounce black crappie caught the attention of anglers and DEC record keepers, and his mark stood for many years.

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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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