
Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – May 13, 2025
The lake trout bite has been solid, with good action in 70-120 feet of water.

The lake trout bite has been solid, with good action in 70-120 feet of water.

For the prestigious Stanley Spisiak Memorial Conservationist of the Year Award, General Motors Tonawanda was recognized for its water conservation practices in the Niagara River. At one point, the facility was drawing upward of 26

Lockport, N.Y. — The Niagara County Federation of Conservation Clubs held its annual conservation awards banquet on Saturday, April 12, at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Lockport to honor the top conservationists for 2024. Here are

Joe Rist, owner of Trout Town Flies, in Roscoe, in the Catskills is the 2025 New York Outdoors News Person of the Year.
The accolades and anecdotes shared by Rist’s colleagues are not just

DEC’s annual Lake Ontario Fishing Boat Survey is under way and has been conducted annually since 1985 to track New York’s world class fishery, which attracts anglers from dozens of states and several countries each

Are wild lake trout that have become more prevalent in New York’s Lake Champlain better able to escape predation by sea lamprey? Some anglers and fisheries experts think that is the case, and with lake

Inshore brown trout fishing is off to a good start on this famed fishery.

According to one charter captain here, the “deep bite was lake trout for good action all day.”

Lake Ontario Harbors and low ends of tributaries are good spots for a variety warmwater species.
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