Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – July 1, 2025
Site Staff
July 1, 2025
Slowly but surely, all that cold spring water is getting milder, and hopefully that will mean more consistent action for the summer ahead.
Fishing
Dan Ladd: Remembering New York’s Hadlock Dam failure 20 years later
Dan Ladd
June 28, 2025
The very first article I had published in New York Outdoor News was during the summer of 2005, the paper’s first year. It was a news story about the dam breach of Hadlock Pond, a
New York Fishing Report – June 27, 2025
Site Staff
June 27, 2025
Lake Ontario trollers off Niagara County continue to report that coho are plentiful and still biting well.
Chasing New York’s smallmouth bass record? Your odds might be better than ever
George Fiorille
June 27, 2025
The odds of catching a state record smallmouth bass across the Northeast and Midwest have greatly improved the past couple of decades. These state records have been broken numerous times in recent years. There’s a
Federal funding cuts threaten popular Dunkirk Buoy program used by New York’s boaters, anglers
Bill Hilts Jr.
June 26, 2025
Earlier this year, the fishing and research community that utilizes Lake Erie was made aware that funding may be in jeopardy for the Dunkirk Buoy in New York, a valuable public resource.
Proposed federal
New York DEC acquires Onondaga Lake Visitor Center in Syracuse
Staff Report
June 25, 2025
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced the property transfer of the Onondaga Lake Visitor Center, in Syracuse, (Onondaga County) from Honeywell International, Inc., to New York State.
The Center, which
Commentary: TRCP opposes sale of public lands in Senate budget reconciliation proposal
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
June 25, 2025
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership expressed serious concern June 11 with a provision in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s reconciliation proposal that would mandate the sale of public lands in Alaska, Arizona, California,
Saint Lawrence River produces New York record 4.1-pound fallfish
Staff Report
June 25, 2025
For the second time this freshwater fishing season, a new state record fish has been caught in New York.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced that Alex Pidhorodeckyj, of Peekskill,
When is water too warm for the safety of muskies?
Steve Heiting
June 25, 2025
Without a doubt, muskie anglers are among the most conservation-minded of all fishermen. Release is a priority and doing what’s best for the fishery is always considered.
But that doesn’t mean they always agree.
