Steve Piatt

Long Island is best known for its outstanding saltwater fishing. From striped bass to bluefish to summer flounder and other species, chances are pretty good there’s always something to target: inshore or offshore.
So, it’s perhaps a bit of a surprise to many anglers that some superb trout fishing can be had out on the island, in the freshwater, and within all the hustle and bustle of the heavily populated Suffolk County.

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.