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Steve Piatt: A Newfoundland moose, after all

Featured, Features, Hunting, National Hunting, New York /

Gary was perfectly fine with not bringing home a moose on our Newfoundland hunt last month. It was that good of a hunt, that good of an adventure, from the arduous trip itself to the daily trudging across the spectacular landscape to the endless glassing in an effort to find a bull.
It had been, in fact, a great week, one that actually stretched into two with travel to the island and then back home, lengthy drives parlayed with ferry crossings for me and flights from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Deer Lake, Newfoundland, and back for Gary as he avoided his customary motion sickness.

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New York DEC hits cheese factory with $475,000 fine for polluting Ischua Creek

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, National Fishing, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, News /

A major wastewater discharge from the Great Lakes Cheese plant in August that caused a widespread fish kill in Ischua Creek was seemingly the worst since the facility began operations in late 2024.
But it wasn’t the first. Records from the Environmental Protection Agency show the company self-reported numerous violations of its wastewater permit as early as December 2024, almost immediately after the Cattaraugus County facility began its cheese-making operations.

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Steve Piatt: Even where there’s lots of moose, there still isn’t many

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

An old Newfoundland moose-hunting guide said it best, and in simple fashion so typical of these hard-working folks, when talking about the potential for success on any hunt:
“Even where there’s a lot of them, there ain’t many of ’em.” He was right, but that’s a tough sell to a visiting hunter full of optimism.

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Steve Piatt: Autumn’s arrival means a season of change for Pennsylvania, New York hunters

Featured, Hunting, Hunting, National Hunting, New York, Opinion, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

I’m a forward-thinking sportsman, so I’m always looking forward to an upcoming hunting season. That’s especially true this year since I’m getting an early start by accompanying a buddy on his Newfoundland moose hunt.

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Fall turkey hunting is worth stepping down from the deer stand for

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Most turkey hunters consider it a springtime game, when the longbeards are thundering on the roost and you’re calling them into shotgun range. Over the years an entire legion of obsessed gobbler pursuers has grown, some so consumed by the birds they would rather hunt them than whitetails.
But turkey hunting can be a fall game as well, with most states offering fall seasons of varying lengths, although some have been trimmed in recent years due to a downturn in turkey numbers.

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Balsam Lake Mountain features big-woods hunting and fishing in southeast New York

Hunting, Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York /

Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest gets a lot of attention from a variety of outdoor enthusiasts – campers, hikers, backpackers, cross-country skiers, canoeists, and hunters, anglers, and trappers.
But at about 13,500 acres, there’s plenty of room for everyone in this Catskills region parcel that has a well-deserved name – wild.

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Steve Piatt: How good was the fishing? The hands tell the story

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

Undertake any weeklong fishing trip and you’ll undoubtedly return home with plenty of pictures. After all, you’re fishing all week, every day. You should be able to catch fish in a bathtub on that schedule. But photos aside, there is a better barometer, a better yardstick, a better glimpse of how good the fishing may have been during the week. Just look at your hands.

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Steve Piatt: Golf and trapshooting — a different range, a different game

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

My golfing days ended about 20 years ago when I decided to put the sticks aside and spend more time fishing and training our Labrador retrievers, or at least trying to get control of them.
What I liked most about golf was the process of improving, spending time at the range not beating balls but practicing with a purpose. These days, I still spend time at the range. But it’s instead the trap range, trying desperately to develop the kind of shotgunning form that will serve me well on pheasants, grouse, and woodcock this fall.

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