fishing

RANDOLPH — The snowmelt has filled area streams with fresh, cold water — just the way trout like it. Anxious anglers are preparing their fishing gear ...

It seems like trout season will never come when the temperatures hover in the single digits, frigid snow storms beat upon you and the heating bills go...

MANCHESTER, Vt. (TNS) — Before long, fly fishermen and women will descend on theBattenkill River, which starts near here in theGreen Mountainsand conn...

Groaning and straining under an armful of wood, I just managed to hook a finder round the door handle and stagger inside. Depositing the wood by the s...

I was leaning on the shovel and breathing hard. The 20-yard, steep driveway had me puffing. It seems I don’t have a lot of gas in the tank on occasion...

When you are an author, your opinions are often under a microscope. Everything you write is unalterably there in black and white to be dissected, minu...

LAKE GEORGE (TNS) — Anglers from across the country will visit Lake George this weekend to participate in a series of kayak bass fishing tournaments. ...

Three days of casting for muskies in a bouncing boat takes it out of you. Out on the wide waters you don’t realize how much energy your body burns mak...

It wasn’t the type of day you’d expect to catch a single fish. A hot, bright sun beamed down from a cloudless sky and the humidity was terrible. Still...

The first of two Fish-for-Free days is scheduled for Sunday, May 24, statewide across Pennsylvania. According to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commis...

ROCHESTER (TNS) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says three Upstate New York regions can begin reopening this Friday after weeks of a coronavirus shutdown. The Moh...

I have spent all my life trying to become a better trout fisherman. This has become a perpetual quest, I guess, a study and a pursuit I dearly love, o...

SMETHPORT, Pa. — Dave Tenny and I worked together at Control Chief and Dave is an avid outdoorsman and a great guy. He also is quite a wit and I was o...

How times change — and so quickly. Who would have thought the entire country would be forced to confront a deadly disease and essentially shut down to...

Wednesday’s the first day of trout season. I certainly hope this fills you with bubbling excitement and a thrill of anticipation and I’ll tell you why...

Trout season is still weeks away. We have been extremely fortunate in the weather department so far, but March has been snowy in recent years. With th...

When I went to school, and for years after, I’d have a reoccurring dream in which I’d go to class and discover, to my horror, an important paper hadn’...

The fishing is free this weekend, the first of several Free Fishing Weekends planned in New York state in 2020. Residents don’t need a license to fish...