
New York Fishing Report – March 11, 2021
If you have the opportunity to fish a trout pond just after it opens up, it could be magical, so have your gear ready for April 1.

If you have the opportunity to fish a trout pond just after it opens up, it could be magical, so have your gear ready for April 1.

Long Island isn’t just the best opportunity to do so off New York shores, but is as good as any along the northern Atlantic coast.

Ice is still good, at least on this lake. A look at ice conditions in other parts of the state, too, as ice fishing winds down.

Three tactics to hook the trench fish, and the first is actually the best.

With warming temperatures and progressively longer days, it is again time to be extra vigilant about ice safety. The region’s main ice sheets (inland waters), currently around 10 to 14 inches should last a while,

The spring runs of rainbow trout and sometimes the fall runs of brown trout offer some of the best seasonal trout fishing in New York state, DEC says.

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.

The program aims to collect data from fishing trips on all of New York’s Finger Lakes and selected Lake Ontario embayments of DEC Regions 7 and 8.

There are times when I’m downright proud to be a sportsman and this day was surely one of them.
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