![]() ![]() Sort of a condensed version of Catharine Creek, Naples Creek makes this list by virtue of its all-around excellence. The creek flows into Seneca Lake in Watkins Glen and is closely paralleled by Route 14 for most of its length.Ħ. ![]() Angler behavior used to be a turn-off on “Queen Catharine,” but the observance of stream etiquette has been much improved in recent seasons. Rainbows weighing up to 10 or 12 pounds run all the way to the creek’s headwaters near Pine Valley in Chemung County, and these trout hit worms, minnows, salmon eggs and artificial nymphs. Catharine Creek is number five on my trout top hit list, and famous around the world for its spring rainbow run. The Inlet has approximately 14 miles of public fishing rights along its banks.ĥ. ![]() Owasco Inlet, the deep, rural creek that flows north from Groton through Locke and Moravia in Tompkins and Cayuga counties has a fairly heavy run of rainbows from Owasco Lake in April, followed by some great fishing for brown trout the rest of the season. They go crazy in late May when the sulfur-colored mayflies are hatching.Ĥ. All of the trout that swim in this 15-foot-wide stream are wild. Yet I have caught a couple of 20-inch brown trout in the last couple of years, and plenty of brook trout, too. I say that because the stream flowing under Route 41 in the Cortland County village of Homer has been hurting lately due mainly to drought. Having arrived at stream number three, I feel obliged to whisper to one all that they must try Factory Brook, but with a great deal of caution. It is stuffed with wild and stocked brown trout and provides dry fly anglers with countless chances to take them on the top.ģ. Route 20, but I love the pocket water along Route 13, downstream of Chittenango Falls State Park. It is fished hard by anglers north and south of U.S. Close to Nine Mile in terms of its overall fishing quality is Chittenango Creek, which journeys northward through Madison and Onondaga counties before spilling into Oneida Lake near Bridgeport. These 20-pound brutes swim over the Otisco dam and keep going downstream until something much bigger than they are yells “stop.”Ģ. Nine Mile also holds some impressive tiger muskellunge. TROUT FISHING NEAR ME PLUSMost of the trout caught here are brown trout, including many wild ones that run between 12 and 16 inches, plus a few genuine monsters that should be weighed instead of measured. Stocked with more than 20,000 trout a year, it fishes best between Marcellus Falls and Camillus, in southern Onondaga County. Nine Mile Creek, my chart-topper, is the outlet of Otisco Lake, the easternmost body of water in the Finger Lakes chain. My contribution, “The Finger Lakes Top Ten Trout Streams,” begins with a heavily fished creek that’s within a 15-minute drive from downtown Syracuse.ġ. Just for fun, they might even make lists of the better streams in the Finger Lakes region. Over the years, skilled anglers develop a sense of when the trout will bite, and where. That’s when rainbow trout as thick as fire hydrants fill certain Finger Lakes tributaries on the way to their spawning grounds, and wild brown and brook trout start sipping mayflies from stream surfaces. Yet the fishing (and catching) in these parts is world-class by any standards, especially during the first month or two of New York’s annual trout season. There’s something compulsive about catching a big one and then fudging on the facts afterward. Would you believe that the trout fishing around here is so good that the majority of anglers who frequent them no longer feel the need to exaggerate their catches? N ew York can justly lay claim to having some of the world’s best trout streams flowing within its borders, and at least a couple of those fishing holes are located in the Finger Lakes Region. Excerpted from Trout Streams of Central New York ![]()
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