Yes, the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area in western New York is big, at 5,774 acres.
But that tells just a part of the story. The WMA is actually part of a sprawling state and federal habitat complex.
Tonawanda WMA a wet and wild spot for waterfowl hunting Read More »
I have a healthy respect for timber rattlesnakes, but only because they scare the hell out of me. And, oh yeah, they can kill you, too.
Yes, I know that in many cases a rattler won’t inject its venom when it bites, but that doesn’t matter. I’d likely die of a heart attack anyway. That said, despite those fears, I still have a fascination for rattlesnakes.
Steve Piatt: A fear, but fascination, with rattlesnakes Read More »
I’m a numbers guy, from batting averages to golf handicaps to goals and assists. So, when the New York DEC finally releases its highly detailed whitetail harvest report for the past season, I dive into the numbers with interest.
I’ll give the state’s deer team credit: it’s a comprehensive report like few others across the country. That said, I wish the DEC would offer up a boiled-down preliminary report on the deer kill ahead of the final release.
Steve Piatt: Numbers that jumped out from the 2024 deer harvest report in New York Read More »
There was a time when the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to Cazenovia Lake for one simple reason: there wasn’t much public access to the Madison County water.
But things have changed a lot over the past decade-plus, and those improvements in access prompted the DEC to actively manage the 1,164-acre lake known these days as a quality warmwater fishery that attracts a fair amount of angling attention.
Cazenovia Lake a Central New York warm-water hot-spot Read More »
Cutting short our spring gobbler season by a few days has become a standard routine for wife, Paula, and me, albeit one that always leads to concerns I’ll encounter a strutting longbeard with a fly-rod in my hand instead of my Remington 870.
It has happened before. Coming off Schrader Creek one beautiful late-May morning in Pennsylvania – comfortably within legal shooting hours – I rounded a bend in the old railroad grade that parallels the stream tight to the Bradford-Sullivan county line to the sight of a gobbler, in full strut, downright glowing in the sun.
Steve Piatt: Sometimes, it’s best to turn the attention from turkeys to trout Read More »
A heavy – well, not too heavy, because you don’t want to compete with all those insects – Green Drake hatch is probably the dream of just about every fly fisherman around late May to mid-June in New York. But to be honest, it’s pretty much a hit-and-miss thing. And we do a lot more missing than hitting.
That’s why when you get word of a Green Drake hatch – any kind, from a few to a moderate and even sporadically heavy hatch – fly-fishers tend to drop what they’re doing and head to the water, always optimistic.
Steve Piatt: A magical evening on New York’s Ausable River Read More »
It’s clearly not the best known trout water in the Catskills region, which is exactly why a visit to the Batavia Kill might be in order.
Angling pressure will likely be lighter on the Batavia Kill, including fewer folks than those plying the waters of Schoharie Creek, to which the Batavia Kill feeds.
Batavia Kill a Catskills trout stream worth a visit in New York’s Greene County Read More »
Callicoon Creek’s North Branch is, in many ways, two trout streams in one. And these days New York DEC fishing regulations support that, designating separate stretches and stocking only one area of the Sullivan County water.
Anglers have the option of pursuing either wild or stocked trout, and in some stretches both, with the 10.7-mile-long tributary to Callicoon Creek offering five miles of fishing access through the state’s Public Fishing Rights program.
His name was Mike.
He lived around Harrisburg in downstate Pennsylvania. Worked at the Nestle’s water plant in that area. That’s about all I knew about him. Well, that’s not entirely correct.
I knew that, like me, he was a serious turkey hunter. And we were hunting the same farm, at least for the first week of Pennsylvania’s spring gobbler season, when Mike would take some vacation time and come up to pursue longbeards with the same intensity as myself.
Steve Piatt: A little competition in the turkey woods doesn’t have to ruin an experience Read More »
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