New York Fishing Report – January 24-31, 2025
Site Staff
January 24, 2025
North end is proving to be effective for panfish here. Try using spikes, wax worms, or cut minnows.
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Bill Hilts, Jr.: Sometimes the cold just comes with an outdoor adventure
Bill Hilts Jr.
January 23, 2025
The actual temperature was in the mid-teens and the wind chill took it into the single digits. It was cold!
I found myself on the back patio, despite the frigid temperatures, grilling a
Oak Duke: A missed opportunity right as a New York deer season slips away
Oak Duke
January 23, 2025
It was going to be a textbook hunt on the final day of the 2024 New York State firearms deer season. My confidence was peaking. I’ve filled my share of tags on the last day
Backyard and Beyond: Look, listen for owls
Val Cunningham
January 22, 2025
Owls can be easier to spot in wintertime: great horned owls start hooting and nesting while we’re still in winter’s grip, and barred owls aren’t far behind. And an elusive screech owl may turn up
Changes greet hunters at Long Island’s Ridge Hunter Check Station
Tim Huss
January 22, 2025
Most veteran hunters on Long Island are familiar with the Ridge Hunter Check Station.
Located on the Ridge Pine Barrens State Forest and Maintenance Center on Randalls Road, for more than 60 years New
Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – January 21, 2025
Site Staff
January 21, 2025
Some local anglers are hitting the ice for panfish or pike or walleyes.
New York’s Sullivan County sportsmen’s club adjusts after state’s ban on coyote hunting contests
Jeff Murray
January 21, 2025
Ever since New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed S.4099/A.2917 in December 2023 – an amendment to the state’s environmental conservation law that “makes certain hunting contests, competitions, tournaments, and derbies that allow for the take
ASMFC looking ahead following December striped bass meeting
Charles Witek III
January 21, 2025
As coverage in the Jan. 10 edition of New York Outdoor News reported, The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board met on Dec. 16 to decide whether to reduce 2025 striped
Waneta Lake offers a realistic shot at a big muskie in New York’s Schuyler County
Steve Piatt
January 20, 2025
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
