Best Fishing in New York

Crappie are scrappy fighters and tasty eating. New York anglers catch crappie in a variety of waters. We’ll show you how, when and especially where to catch them.

If you’d like to go yellow perch fishing in New York, you have plenty of places to catch these tasty fish. However, if you want limits of big perch, we’ll show you the best lakes.

New York is the epicenter of surf fishing for stripers. We show you the best striped bass beaches for shore angling as well as some tips that will help you find and catch more stripers.

Northern pike are an aggressive predator that will smash smaller fish or anything that looks like them. The waters in this article are the best places in New York to fish for them.

Want to catch one of New York’s most ferocious game fish and not afraid to work for it? Try muskie fishing at one of these best rivers and lakes in the Empire State.