ichthyology

It was hot; the sun beamed down with a vengeance from a clear blue sky and the mercury hovered in the low 90s, although a breeze was blowing and kept ...

ALBANY — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos says that fishing for trout and salmon in Lake Ontario has ...

The DEC reports that Lake Ontario chinook salmon fishing quality in 2017 was the highest recorded in more than 30 years. DEC surveyed Lake Ontario boa...

New York state recorded its best walleye fishing on Lake Erie in 2017 in nearly 30 years, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservat...

With a brand new year looming, it has been traditional in our society to set some goals, make a resolution or two. Generally this process involves a l...

SPRINGVILLE — The $7 million Scoby Dam project is designed not only to improve the safety of the Cattaraugus Creek dam by lowering it 25 feet, but to ...

The big pike first followed my spinner in, only inches behind, but he never took. My wife and I threw every piece of hardware we had at this fish, and...

When the days are blistering hot and you’re busy staying cool or doing other things, the opportunity to escape the sun and do a little night fishing s...

Whether young or old, every fishermen loves action. True, there may be those occasions when you’d just as soon sit on the bank and kick back fishing f...

When thinking of the many first days of trout season I’ve fished in New York, the old memory begins churning and so many wonderful experiences come to...

Someone shouted my name and I turned. The deadly aimed snowball smacked me squarely in the forehead, exploding like the mini-bomb it was. Since the te...