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Jan 25, 2025 | 
outdoornews.com | Craig Raleigh
If you’re considering taking part in some of the best stream fishing of the year, then you’re going to want to pay attention to all of the safety details that come with it. Many anglers don’t put away their fishing gear just because the water has gotten cold, but while dressing warmer and paying more attention to the conditions can go a long way towards salvaging an otherwise cold fishing season, staying safe in the water once the temperatures drop requires a little bit of extra preparation.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
outdoornews.com | Craig Raleigh
Any time you plan to go waterfowl hunting on a larger body of water, you need to do your homework first, and the Hudson River is no exception. The fact is that there are ways and means of duck hunting on the venerable Hudson that are both safe and perfectly legal, but you’re going to need to have all of your facts in order to make sure that your experience is successful. This content is restricted to subscribers of OutdoorNews.com.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
outdoornews.com | Craig Raleigh
The fisher may be a diminutive predator, but don’t let the size fool you. Even with a fairly elaborate trail camera setup around my area of upstate New York, I never get tired of following all the deer, turkeys, and other game animals that make their way past the motion-sensitive lenses. I always get a little excited when a new animal is captured, especially black bears now that I live in Ulster County.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
thefisherman.com | Tom Pagliaroli |Scott Newhall |George Schauer |Craig Raleigh
From bluegills and crappie to yellow and white perch, fall back to panfish. Autumn’s firing-on-all-cylinders counterpart to May fishing – when it comes to the pantastic clan – reveals itself again at the tenth turn of the calendar page as cooling waters, receding vegetation and the still abundant forage spur seasonal change feeding binges.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
thefisherman.com | Scott Newhall |George Schauer |Craig Raleigh
“A very cool extra that can make a day on the stream more memorable.”For trout fishermen there are a variety of highlights that can make a trip especially rewarding. Catching a trophy-sized fish from a given stream is usually the first instance that comes to mind. For others, it’s matching the hatch precisely and getting stubborn fish to rise to a particular fly, maybe even a homemade version.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
thefisherman.com | George Schauer |Craig Raleigh |Scott Newhall
So, what’s all the chatter about chatterbaits? Always looking for that new bait that will give me an edge, I recently looked into the “chatterbait” so I can up my game on the water. While this bait is not a new lure by any means, I believe this one has been kept under wraps by many pros to keep that competitive edge on the tournament trail. There are many brands and hobbyists making bladed jigs, the chatterbait I thought was synonymous with this style jig.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
thefisherman.com | Craig Raleigh |Scott Newhall |George Schauer |Bruce Edward Litton
Fishing summer cold fronts doesn’t have to be an exercise in futility. When low pressure starts to rear its ugly head, many anglers go straight for a good book instead of to their favorite fishing spot. The signs aren’t hard to miss – a notable chill in the air, sometimes followed by bright blue skies, and a small but obvious drop in water temperature. It’s at these times when it seems like the bite is gone, but hold on.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
outdoornews.com | Craig Raleigh
If you’re like me, lucky enough to live in the Catskill Mountain region, you’ve long since become a party to some of the most pristine wilderness trout streams that any angler could enjoy. This content is restricted to subscribers of OutdoorNews.com. If you are already an OutdoorNews.com subscriber, you can log in here. If you are not and would like to read this and all the other great content OutdoorNews.com has to offer, click here.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
outdoornews.com | Craig Raleigh
What are the factors that make a Hudson River striped bass guide good? Once you’ve made the easy choice to do some striped bass fishing on the venerable Hudson River, you may want to consider going with a good guide to get you on the fish. For those who have their own boat and have been fishing the big river for years, it’s a simple matter of getting the license and waiting for the open season, but not everyone can easily do that.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
outdoornews.com | Craig Raleigh
Little gets us trout anglers revved up quite like the opening of trout season in New York. If I stopped to list all of the trout streams, creeks, rivers, and lakes I’ve fished in New York State I’d use up my word count in the first paragraph. Suffice it to say that the spring trout season is one of my favorites, and with thanks to our venerable NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, we’re all lucky enough to be able to enjoy it year-round in many areas now.
