
New York Fishing Report – August 22, 2025
Fishing success on the west end of Lake Erie has been very good over the past week, with anglers fishing over a wide area ranging from 100-500 feet deep.

Fishing success on the west end of Lake Erie has been very good over the past week, with anglers fishing over a wide area ranging from 100-500 feet deep.

I recently came across an old YouTube video posted July 12, 2009, that records my interview of Dean Meckes, of Clayton, describing how he won the New York State Bass Federation tournament out of Ogdensburg

The 19th edition of the World Black Bass Championships is slated for Sept. 4-6, in South Africa, and Team USA coach and legendary professional bass angler Kevin VanDam recently announced his six-man team to represent

Here we are in the late summer open-lake trolling season, and big kings are being netted both offshore and near shore.

The oldest known lake trout in the Great Lakes, 62 years old at the time of capture, recently was documented by researchers at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Marquette Fisheries Research Station.

The long-anticipated opening of a new Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World retail store came to fruition with the store’s grand opening held July 30.
The new 70,000 square-foot store, which employs approximately 140 people,

Western New Yorker Bailey Eigbrett, of Cheektowaga, won the Bassmaster Kayak Series event at Lake Champlain, and thus has qualified for the 2026 Bassmaster Kayak National Championship, in Knoxville, Tenn.
Eigbrett claimed the victory

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
That Yogi Berra quote was most appropriate for this year’s Summer Lake Ontario Counties Trout and Salmon Derby that concluded July 27. In the end, it was Larry

Walleye fishing on Lake Erie is still phenomenal no matter what port you launch out of.
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