Professional Fishing Guide

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When the temperatures drop below freezing and the grey skies and lake-effect snow take hold in Central New York — the desire to get outside starts to shrink! If you are not a skier or snowmobiler, there is not a lot to do for Upstate New Yorkers’ experiencing cabin fever. Looking for a fun way to spend time with friends and family outdoors this Winter? Ice fishing requires no experience. Just your warmest winter apparel and a sense of adventure! Upstate Guide Service leads safe and enjoyable ice fishing trips on the frozen lakes and bays of Upstate New York. All the equipment to comfortablyRead More →

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It’s early January in Upstate New York and the ice fishing season is expected to be very good. Extended below-normal cold temperatures will build thick ice on the lakes and bays. We are overdue for a real winter. It will feel nostalgic when, if, I find myself guiding and fishing in places and locations I’ve been absent the last several winters due to mild weather. The extended forecast does look good…Lived around here long enough to know however that the weather stays consistantly unpredictable. The lack of safe ice for the last several winter seasons has kept the hordes of anglers from maurauding local hotRead More →

Ice Fishing Guide In New York State

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One of my earliest memories of ice fishing is traveling down the middle of Oneida Lake in a late 70’s four door Ford sedan doing about 30 miles per hour. The driver was a guy named Sam Pirano. The front passenger — with a bottle of red wine squeezed between his legs — was a fellow named Walter Lorezel. His glasses were thicker than the bottom of a coke bottle and hung precarious on the bridge of his big red nose like scaffolding falling off a building. My Dad’s ice fishing buddies. I was about 12 years old and sat in the middle of theRead More →

Ice Fishing In Central New York

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It is clear, to all of us here in “The Real Upstate New York” that Mother Nature cannot decide — from one day to the next — if it will be Winter or Spring.  In twenty seasons of guiding ice anglers; This ice fishing season was the most challenging. This winter started with 16 scheduled ice fishing trips on my calendar, but only eight of them were completed. Upstate New York resembled northern New Jersey this winter. Minus the casinos and gold chains. Mild temperatures this winter left most of the lakes around here with unsafe ice. The traditional ice fishing season in central New YorkRead More →

Professional Ice Fishing Guide Service

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On occasion, like so many of us, I turn off my brain and surf through reels on Instagram. You know, like when you are in the waiting room at the dentist or waiting for a flight at the airport. The world of hunting and fishing has found a surreal home in this interesting cyber-land of eye candy. All forms of fishing (and self-proclaimed fishing experts) are alive and well on this social media platform. Ice fishing, in particular, is a current popular topic. While surfing reels today waiting in my car at the grocery store, I watched as a red-bearded 20-something ice angling expert declared;Read More →

Professional Ice Fishing Guide Service

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In the Autumn of 2012, a decade ago, I launched myself into the game of guiding ice anglers. While I have guided ice anglers since 2003, and have been an avid ice fisherman my entire life, it was not until the winter of 2012/2013 that ice fishing became a signifigant part of my guide service. In the Autumn of 2012 the USDA closed the doors of the satellite laboratory where I was employed as an arborist. My day-job was lost. But my guide service was growing. I had been keeping it alive, on the weekends, for years while cutting down trees for the government. TheRead More →

Professional Ice Fishing Guide Service

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In January of this year four guys from Lancaster Pennsylvania met me early in the morning at a boat launch on a frozen bay of the St. Lawrence River.  The ambient air temperature was around 10 degrees and there was an eight to 12  mile per hour west wind, creating wind chill of negative 10 degrees. We were fishing damn near as far north as a person can get in New York State. The open water of the main river was 500 yards or so distant and on the other side of that was Canada. This ice fishing season began as a mild winter. TheRead More →

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A wide variety of lakes provide an assortment of species for the ice angler to target here in Upstate New York. Avid ice anglers have their favorite fish they pursue during the ice season. What species or lake I choose to fish depends upon several factors, but during the short ice fishing season, there is one constant theme…Success, each time I travel out on the ice to fish, is a roll of the dice. With so many lakes with an abundance of fish swimming around in them, you would think the simple equation of drilling a hole and suspending your bait would equate to catching fish.Read More →

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With temperatures falling well below zero in the Adirondacks over the course of the last several weeks…Ice fishing season is here! Many of the big lakes and all of the small ponds throughout the six and a half million acre park are frozen over with five to seven inches of ice. Ice fishing in the Adirondacks is challenging. Early ice (now) is perhaps the best time of the year for fishing. The ice is new and easy to traverse and easy to drill holes through. The fish are adjusting to the new roof over their heads but have not become inactive. Coldwater species like trout,Read More →