Has it been awhile since you've gotten a line in the water? Want to get out and do some fishing this weekend? You can do it without a license all across NY.
What a bizarre saga that happened at a fishing tournament in Dunkirk over the weekend. A few thousand dollars and a trip were available to be won during this tournament and one guy was going to extreme lengths to cheap and win the tournament.
With more than 7,500 freshwater lakes, ponds, and reservoirs in New York, there are plenty of places to drop a line. But where is the best place to reel in the big one this season?
Fishing enthusiasts in New York will be happy to learn that this year, there are more salmon in New York and the salmon have been getting bigger over the years.
New York is a big state. Therefore fisheries near Buffalo likely face different challenges than those in Westchester. The Empire State prides itself in regulations but sometimes has to simplify those rules in order to accommodate such a large area of different terrain. The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation made some of those adaptations on Tuesday.