Opening Day Spring trout fishing on April Fool’s Day was a tradition in my family because it meant a day off from school with Dad’s permission if it fell on a weekday. Forrest Fisher photo Opening day ...

Trout stocking is in full swing. Most streams have already been stocked, with the first round going in somewhere between the last week of March and the second week of April. The only stream in ...

Last week on Facebook there was a list of New York’s 30 best trout streams. I’ve been fortunate to fish many of these waters over the years. So I thought I’d share my most memorable moments on those ...

Western New York is blessed with outstanding fishing resources, starting with the Great Lakes waters of Erie, Ontario and Niagara River. Let’s not forget the tributaries to those lakes, as well as ...

DEEP said the new regulation will protect wild brook trout because most are shorter than nine inches in length. Brook trout ...

The Essex County hatchery raised brook, brown and rainbow trout for stocking in waters around the county since 1928.

SARANAC, N.Y. — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced a new state record for brook trout. Benjamin Ferguson of Lowville, which is in Lewis County, caught a ...

WALPACK — As happens on the first Saturday of April each year, there were more people standing on the banks of the Flatbrook as it flows through town than the population of the entire township. Drawn ...