In a previous edition of New York Outdoor News, we looked at ice fishing waters in the northern (Adirondack) region of New York.
Now, here’s a few from around the rest of the Empire State.
Ice fishing New York: Here are five waters to target Read More »
For a moment, this silver-sided crappie glistened like the cold winter sun and the early morning reflection on the ice.
Fresh from the frozen lake, the crappie was a feather in my cap. It was that much of a joy to catch. Crappies aren’t an easy take on the ice and this first-of-the-morning – a plump 14-incher no less – required a trick that fishermen would call a “finesse tactic.”
Savvy techniques for catching crappies on the ice Read More »
Every deer hunter wants that wide-beam eight-pointer or better; bear hunters dream of topping the 500-pound mark, and bass fishermen only post on Facebook when their largemouth exceeds 5 pounds – well, maybe 4 because those fish are good, too.
But honestly, the majority of harvested deer in Pennsylvania have only six points, or are does; a bear of 300 pounds is a fine accomplishment, and the vast number of largemouths caught and released in Pennsylvania don’t even weigh in at 3 pounds. Indeed, most largemouths in Keystone public waters are scaled at 1½ to 2½ pounds. They don’t draw whistles at tournaments, but they’re still fun to catch and their availability in numbers makes up what they lack in weight.
I sipped my hot tea and stared at the inexpensive sonar bracketed to the stern. One hand was on the 12-volt tiller but I wasn’t touching a rod.
My partner had his line in the water, a jig with a 2-inch bio-plastic minnow. My favorite light jigging rod was lying untouched in the boat’s corner because I wasn’t feeling it yet. Neither, I thought, were the crappies.
Crappies off the bottom: For fall fishing, let your sonar be your guide Read More »
There’s something about a streamer strike. You’re attentively striping line to give the fly action, making it appear like a fleeing fish, when, suddenly, there’s unremitting tension. The fly-line tightens and either lifts with a jumping evasion or pulls back with a deep hauling tow.
There is nothing delicate about either means of attempted escape. With the water temperature cooling, we’re into what I think of as the second streamer season – the first was mid-spring. Trout now are willing to chase, which they weren’t when their world was warmer.
Trout in autumn means it’s second streamer season Read More »
The cow mooed, the pig squealed, the horse whinnied, the rooster crowed, and the green tractor let out a cough that would worry any doctor or mechanic.
I smiled. Making my way from the dusty one track where I’d parked my truck, and passing the two-story Dutch barn, I shimmied under the bottom strand of electric fence and walked to the edge of the oval pond. There I laid two rods and a tackle bag in the high grass next to a dehydrated cow pie. I felt so much tension disappear like smoke over my head.
If you’re a kid, or a kid at heart, I hope that sometime in your life you can fish a fertile farm pond and enjoy the simplest, purist fishing you’re ever going to do.
Farm pond mastery: Late summer is perfect time to tempt fish in small waters Read More »
It was too darn hot to fish during the day.
So we waited and waited. Sitting under the shade of an aging sycamore, with the boat already launched and pulled back up to shore, we dozed until the sun was close to setting.
No matter, we knew the fish we were after bit better at night. That fish, the invasive but tenacious flathead catfish – and by the way, the only fish that ever, anywhere, snapped a rod I was using – has become a popular target in every part of Pennsylvania with a “warm” river.
Focus on flatheads: Big fish are waiting in Pennsylvania’s warm-water rivers Read More »
God, what a racket.
As the sleek Amtrak Acela came along from the south side of the bridge, the mechanical uproar grew and grew and grew. The train appeared out of the thin distance at the bridge’s far end, roared up in speed and expansion as only a train can, then, as we sat in the narrow boat, passed over us like something fleeing a war zone.
Bridge bass: Savvy tips for hot spots on every river Read More »
It was a scorchingly hot day – by noon it was nearly 100 degrees – as we dropped a relatively new lure made of zinc alloy to Champlain’s beefy lake trout. And the drop was by no means shallow. The area we fished showed depths of 80 to 100 feet, little wonder why we needed 7⁄8-ounce lures to reach bottom before the sun went down.
Gliding for summer lake trout on New York’s Lake Champlain Read More »
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