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Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report – March 11, 2021 Frank Campbell Air temperatures are scheduled to break the 60 mark today so being outdoors is a must. While it will be cooling back into the 40s by the weekend, spring is just around the corner. March 15 is the final day for walleye, pike, pickerel, and tiger musky action in the state, but there is still plenty of trout fishing to be had here – in both the tributaries and the Niagara River. Our tip of the week comes for Captains Ernie and Nick Calandrelli, who took Kevin Kishel of East Aurora out on Tuesday in the lower Niagara...

Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report – March 4, 2021 Bill Hilts, Jr. The highlight this week is the fishing action in the lower Niagara River this past weekend. In the Roger Tobey Memorial Steelhead Contest hosted by the Niagara River Anglers Association last Saturday, Matt Cipolletti of Lewiston won first place with an 11.62-pound fish he reeled in on a pink egg sac. Matt Cipolletti of Lewiston caught this 11.62-pound steelhead in the lower Niagara River to win the Roger Tobey Memorial Steelhead Contest sponsored by the NRAA. He was fishing with Capt. Ryan O’Neill and it was caug...

Abandoned Dundas Castle In the early 1900s, Ralph Wurts-Dundas bought property in the Catskill Mountains, with plans to convert the lodge into a castle, modeled after Dundas castle in Scotland. He died in 1921 before it was finished. A year later his wife Josephine was committed to a sanitarium, according to Atlas Obscura. Their only daughter, Muriel was also committed years later. No Dundas even lived in the castle. There are several legends surrounding the castle, saying it's cursed. The three heart-shaped ponds are said to fill up with blood on a full moon, and rumors are a ghost roams the...

Abandoned Home for Boys Mike Tyson is said to have learned how to box at Tyron School, a home for trouble boys in Fulton County when he spent time at the 500 acre facility in the 1980s. The detention center which sits in Perth and Johnstown was closed in 2010 and has sat untouched ever since. Tryon Juvenile Detention Center A special bonus close to New York Once upon a time in 1930, in the village of Hamburg, New Jersey, sat a Gingerbread Castle. It was the centerpiece to a theme park that featured fairy tale characters. The park and castle closed in 1978. It re-opened in 1989 but closed aga...

Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report – February 18, 2021 Bill Hilts, Jr. Things are set for the Roger Tobey Memorial Steelhead Contest sponsored by the Niagara River Anglers Association on Feb. 27. Sign up at Creek Road Bait and Tackle in Lewiston or the Lewiston launch ramp the morning of the event. Remember that you must be a member of the NRAA to compete in the contest. Cold temperatures (it was single digits this morning) haven’t kept fishermen from fishing on the water, be it open or frozen. Yes, there is still some open water fishing going on. Capt. Richard Brant of Tonawand...