Steve Piatt

It should come as no surprise that Limestone Creek in Central New York gets a lot of angling attention.
Geography alone pretty much assures that.
Located primarily in Onondaga County with just of sliver winding into Madison County, the creek that has its roots as an outflow of the DeRuyter Reservoir flows through several areas that could be considered metropolitan, including Fayetteville and Manlius just east of Syracuse.

Wharton Creek winds its way 33 miles through Otsego County, passing through the townships of Richfield, Exeter, Burlington, Edmeston, and Pittsfield before emptying into the Unadilla River at the village of New Berlin.
Trout anglers, however, typically focus on the 20-mile stretch, which receives annual stockings of trout, a stretch between the mouth of the river upstream to Burlington Flats.

You can do your own guesswork as to why the Genesee River is one of the most popular waters in DEC’s Region 9 of western New York.

Is it because it’s heavily stocked by the state, with more than 24,000 yearling trout planted every year, including over 2,700 hefty two-year-old fish? Is it because the river offers plenty of fishing access in the form of nearly 18 miles of Public Fishing Rights along its winding route from the Pennsylvania border northward?