New York Fishing Report – May 3-17, 2024
Site Staff
May 3, 2024
Night fishing is most productive during the early season along Lake Erie’s nearshore reefs and shoals.
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2024 New York Great Lakes Preview: How good can the fishing be on Lake Erie?
Bill Hilts Jr.
May 3, 2024
“It’s getting better all the time!”
If the Beatles were still around today, they may have written a song about Lake Erie and its tremendous fishery that emphasized how good it is … and
When is it time to be mobile for toms, and when is it best to stay put?
Joel Nelson
May 3, 2024
No doubt you’ve been a part of that’ll-never-work type of maneuvers in the turkey woods that end up paying dividends. Maybe it was a 20-yard reposition on some birds working around you. Or perhaps a
The latest strategies for controlling (or at least surviving) biting insects afield
Tim Lesmeister
May 3, 2024
It was last July and I was hiking on Stockton Island (Apostle Islands National Lakeshore) with my wife and Joan, a friend of ours. After criss-crossing through the forest on the well-worn trails, we returned
Calling bird to bird can change your turkey-hunting fortunes, which means knowing gobbler calls
Mark Strand
May 2, 2024
It’s been many years since turkey-hunting legend Ray Eye blew my mind by saying that, of all the spring gobblers he calls in, maybe 60% come to investigate the sounds of another gobbler – this
So, you want to kill a spring gobbler? Here’s what you need to know as a beginner
Dan Ladd
May 2, 2024
If there’s one common trait I hear from new or would-be turkey hunters, it is that they know little about it and are often unsure where to begin the learning process. If you fit this
Nature Smart: The now too-rare prairie chickens
Stan Tekiela
May 1, 2024
Awaking at o’-dark:30 to capture images of wildlife is standard operating procedure in my field.
During the past 40 years, I’ve dragged myself out of bed early thousands of times. So, last week when
Backyard and Beyond: Gray squirrel defends its nest from hawk
Val Cunningham
May 1, 2024
The last thing a mother gray squirrel wants to see is a red-tailed hawk landing near her nest, intent on feasting on her babies. Nick D’Addio caught the action as a big hawk menaced a
Federal rule would make conservation equal to industry on U.S. lands
Associated Press
May 1, 2024
The Biden administration on April 18 finalized a new rule for public land management that’s meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing, and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties.
