Lake Profile

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

For starters, it’s one of the smallest of the 11 Finger Lakes at 1,800 acres. Honeoye Lake is just slightly smaller, and nearby Canadice Lake is the smallest at a mere 649 acres.
But

Tucked away in the southeast corner of St. Lawrence County, N.Y., lies a beckoning fishing and paddling destination that is sometimes overlooked. If it didn’t have an Adirondack Wild Forest in its name, some might

It’s probably no surprise that Bear Lake is often overlooked as a quality angling destination in Chautauqua County.
After all, at the other end of the county is the massive (13,156-acre), hourglass-shaped Chautauqua Lake,

It’s rare to talk about Waneta Lake without also mentioning Lamoka Lake, since the two are strikingly similar and connected by a canal of less than a mile that flows through the state-owned Waneta-Lamoka Wildlife

To some, the Whitney Point Reservoir is perhaps best known for an annual event that hasn’t really been annual at all in recent years.
In fact, it’s called the “Almost Annual” Crappie Derby, an