New York Fishing Report – March 12-19, 2021
This week’s snowmelt and high water is the likely primer for the spring steelhead run.
This week’s snowmelt and high water is the likely primer for the spring steelhead run.
It’s known for its wilderness aesthetics and a fishery of bluegills, black crappies, smallmouth bass, walleyes, and muskellunge.
Some lakes still have decent ice, some are becoming open. Where anglers are catching what.
In New York’s fish and game world, March 15 is a big day as it marks the closing of fishing seasons for walleyes, northern pike, tiger muskellunge and pickerel.
Today’s faces of fishing look like
all of us.
A lake’s ability to produce trophy native game fish will deteriorate if ciscoes disappear; the fatty forage is an important part of a big fish’s diet.
By Joe SheadContributing Writer As I set the flag under the spindle of our second tip-up, I noticed that the flag of our first tip-up was waving at us in the chilly November air.
Many anglers targeting other game fish catch pike incidentally on a wide array of lures and baited walleye jigs. Muskie on the other hand, are known to be very difficult to rise for a strike.
The muskie follow is a huge part of the sport’s dialogue for sure, and one of sportfishing’s most unique phenomena. However, it can also become a key strategy once you understand how to capitalize on
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