
Dan Ladd: New York’s lifetime license holders should have plastic card
This reader went to his local Department of Motor Vehicles to update his driver’s license with the intent of adding an icon showing proof he has a lifetime hunting license.

This reader went to his local Department of Motor Vehicles to update his driver’s license with the intent of adding an icon showing proof he has a lifetime hunting license.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Police Officers late in 2025 issued several tickets for the illegal harvest and selling of striped bass.
According to a DEC report, in Nov. 2025, ECOs

One of the last three county-operated fish hatcheries in New York received welcome news recently in the form of $231,680 in federal grant funds to improve the hatchery’s ability to raise trout and serve as

Panfish are on the move. Here’s where to catch them and what to use.

The first of several state-wide free fishing days in New York will take place Saturday, Feb. 14, and Sunday, Feb.15, during President’s Day weekend.

Two ice anglers died on Sunday, Jan. 18, when a snowmobile they were riding fell through the ice on Chaumont Pond, which is connected to the Oswegatchie River in the Town of Cifton, in St.

Egg sacs are the ticket for brown trout here.

With long, light, and subtle presentations of small jigs or bait, the residing steelhead here will turn on and off for some hook-up action.

The Lake Erie tributaries offered some favorable fishing conditions and fair steelhead catches through last weekend.
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