Lake Profile

There was a time when the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to Cazenovia Lake for one simple reason: there wasn’t much public access to the Madison

Is it Lake Harris, or Harris Lake? That depends on whom you ask about the 300-acre multi-species fishery in Newcomb, Essex County. Even the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation mixes things up when

It’s clearly not the best known trout water in the Catskills region, which is exactly why a visit to the Batavia Kill might be in order.
Angling pressure will likely be lighter on the

Callicoon Creek’s North Branch is, in many ways, two trout streams in one. And these days New York DEC fishing regulations support that, designating separate stretches and stocking only one area of the Sullivan County

It’s actually labeled a kettlehole lake, the product of melting chunks of partially buried glacial ice a long, long, long, time ago. There is no inlet or outlet to its 30 acres, an acreage which

It’s not easy being a rainbow or brown trout in Owasco Lake.
It’s been that way for about 20 years now, as Owasco’s lake trout and walleye populations soared and those fish had a

Like the Catskills, there is some fantastic stream fishing to be had in the Adirondacks, in just about any part of the 6-million acre Adirondack Park. In the eastern Adirondacks, the Schroon River serves up

And the water quality and temperature – the lake has a maximum depth of 40 feet – allow some of the trout that survive the early-season fishing pressure to hold over. Reports of catching browns