CHAUMONT, N.Y. – Every winter, the Chaumont-Three Mile Bay area on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario is an ice fishing mecca in Upstate New York. Several thousand ice anglers come here from ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has announced the adoption of several fishing regulation amendments for anglers fishing Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and their tributaries. The new ...

This year’s preliminary results of the Department of Environmental Conservation’s catch rate survey for Chinook salmon on Lake Ontario serve as a reminder of the potential of a properly managed ...

OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — New York is allowing free fishing this summer on Lake Ontario and adjacent rivers recently hit by flooding. Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week announced the state is waiving fishing ...

Anglers especially those targeting trout and salmon -- are seeing nice numbers and swelling sizes of salmonids when fishing Lake Ontario waters. That is the consensus of reports fisheries experts ...

Warm rains and temperatures have triggered fishing activity around Western New York. Trout are being stocked in our inland streams and lakes in preparation for the April 1 opener. Of course, opening ...

The lake lies between the U.S. and Canada, the easternmost of the Great Lakes. The lake is near Niagara Falls, a popular tourist spot. Lake Ontario may be the only Great Lake not bordering Michigan, ...

Harry Cott had fished for salmon and trout on Lake Ontario before and had success. But netting a king salmon — the famed lake’s ultimate prize — had eluded him. That was until Monday. Cott, 47, of ...