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Young anglers from New York qualify for High School National Championships in 2025

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A foursome of young anglers from the Southern Tier won Bassmaster New York State Junior and High School Classic titles last month on Onondaga Lake.
Horseheads High School students Beckett Kraft and Grant Edwards ran off with the high school division title, while Sullivan Kraft and Jude Pfiefer took the junior division crown. The victories qualified the anglers to compete in the Bassmaster Junior and High School National Championships next year.

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Henry’s Hollow, a hunting and trapping option in New York’s Suffolk County

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

Suffolk County is best known for its saltwater fishing opportunities, and rightly so. But sportsmen and women also have some fine hunting out on Long Island, thanks to some quality tracts of state-owned land.

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Something’s bruin’ in Southwestern New York’s South Valley State Forest

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

Black bears in New York State don’t always get a lot of attention from hunters. In fact, most of the harvest comes from whitetail hunters who encounter a bruin while pursuing deer and take advantage of the opportunity.
That said, there is a growing number of sportsmen and women interested in focusing on bear hunting, and as the biggest of the state’s big-game animals continues to expand its range, more opportunities are arising to take a black bear in the fall.

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Steve Piatt: It’s good to have a friend with a fishing boat

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Terry Catlin was my friend even before I knew he owned a great fishing boat.
Actually, he owns two. But before that we were traveling turkey hunters, laughing and joking our way through a Kansas adventure that included a couple of Rio Grande longbeards as well as a middle-of-the-night knock on our hotel door from a Springfield, Missouri, police officer wondering why we had left open the door of our rental car – with our guns still safely cased inside.

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New York’s Hall Island State Forest sits tight to a fishing hot-spot

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York / Steve Piatt

Hall Island State Forest in Oswego County offers everything you might expect in a 2,079-acre tract: hunting, trapping, snowmobiling, bird watching, hiking, and camping possibilities. But there’s more.
The parcel in the Town of Redfield is located tight to the southern shore of the Salmon River Reservoir (also known as the Redfield Reservoir), a popular fishing spot that includes a naturally reproducing walleye fishery.

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Here’s how to build a steady dog for the duck blind

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Chances are pretty good, if you’ve done a lot of upland bird or waterfowl hunting, you’ve seen a great hunting dog in action.
Chances also are pretty good you’ve seen an out-of-control canine that has ruined your hunt and led to some embarrassment for the dog’s owner. In the field, it’s simply a wasted day of hunting.
In the duck blind, it’s a flat-out safety issue that can’t be tolerated. And it’s not the dog’s fault.

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Steve Piatt: Soaring temperatures force an audible in plan to fish New York’s Ausable River

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

On paper, this trip was going to be special. Back to the Adirondacks, and back to the West Branch of the Ausable River, which I proudly called my home water during our 16 years up there.
Two days of fishing, plying my favorite stretches of the river, nymph fishing the pocket water and, perhaps in the evening, switching to dry flies – maybe even Green Drake or Coffin Fly patterns in sizes easy for me to see on the water.
It would be just like old times, like reconnecting with an old friend, picking up the conversation just as we left it years ago.

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Keuka Lake in New York’s Steuben and Yates counties offers lakers, smallmouths, and more

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York / Steve Piatt

Keuka Lake probably wouldn’t be considered the hottest of the Finger Lakes angling destinations. That title these days belongs to, arguably, nearby Cayuga Lake. But the unique, Y-shaped water that straddles Yates and Steuben counties shouldn’t be overlooked, especially if you’re targeting lake trout or smallmouth bass.

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Steve Piatt: Old age adds to the appreciation felt for the turkey woods

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Spring gobbler season is, quite literally, a painful reminder that I’m now the same age as old people.
Yet I still hunt, and my pre-season scouting runs essentially turn May Madness into a two-month or longer effort, rising each morning without benefit or need of an alarm clock, the passion still firmly intact even if the body is not. In the sports jargon of today, I would be described daily as a “game time decision,” dealing with a “lower body injury” that will at some point be addressed, but not until after the season.

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Young anglers from New York qualify for High School National Championships in 2025

Henry’s Hollow, a hunting and trapping option in New York’s Suffolk County

Something’s bruin’ in Southwestern New York’s South Valley State Forest

Steve Piatt: It’s good to have a friend with a fishing boat

New York’s Hall Island State Forest sits tight to a fishing hot-spot

Here’s how to build a steady dog for the duck blind

Steve Piatt: Soaring temperatures force an audible in plan to fish New York’s Ausable River

Keuka Lake in New York’s Steuben and Yates counties offers lakers, smallmouths, and more

Steve Piatt: Old age adds to the appreciation felt for the turkey woods

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