
New York Fishing Report – August 29-September 5, 2025
The perch bite is on here, so try small jigs, small bright colored spinners, or throwing gold colored blade baits.

The perch bite is on here, so try small jigs, small bright colored spinners, or throwing gold colored blade baits.

On Aug. 6, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board met to finalize the latest draft of Addendum III to Amendment 7 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped

We all know what an absolute blessing New York shares in its Great Lakes resources. Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and the Niagara River is the angling trilogy that is second to none in the world

For the past weekend, most boaters headed offshore looking for scattered salmon and stable conditions. What they generally found was a really good steelhead bite.

Aiming to rebuild the struggling striped bass population, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission recently released a proposed update to the striped bass fishery plan for public comment.
The update, known as Addendum III,

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.
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