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Susquehanna River NY DEC
Chenango River NY DEC
Unadilla River NY DEC

You will get the NYS DEC fishing evaluation and access points for any river, lake,creek,pond in the state...

Susquehanna and Chenango are very shallow for the most part, with a few 10-20 holes here and there.. Mostly SMB, but there are Muskie, Pike, Walleyes, big Carp and Channel Cats as well... Guys catch Muskies, but you can fish for a year and never raise one.. Then you'll be fishing for 10 inch SMB, and a 4 footer will grab your 1/16 oz jig, and spool you.. Happened to me a few times.. used tp be a LOT of walleyes here , but they have been decimated in this system, and have become a pretty rare catch.. We fished hard this past year and caught 3 between 2 of us, my grandson and myself.. In the 90's I would regularly catch a dozen in a few hours between 6 and 8 PM on a fall evening... SMB can get very plentiful in Oct and Nov, and catching 25 in 2 hours is no big deal, but a LOT of them are sub 10 inches, and anything above a foot long is a pretty good one.. Spring can be ok as well, but after about early June, the river gets a greenish brown color, and fishing gets real slow unless you want Carp and cats..I live by the river, and to be honest, its not the same as it was .. Something has changed for the worse...Still fish there, still some nice ones, but for me, I fish elsewhere until October when the river clears, and the SMB become active.. There are now Flatheads in this section of the river, and we'll see what effect that has.. Probably not a positive one in a system thats already stressed.. I can turn you onto a hotspot that is loaded with SMB in the fall if you care to PM me.. About 1/2 hour from Binghamton, but a lot nicer area, lots of action as well. The one thing you may notice is that there are very few fishermen along the river these days. There are some decent fish, and decent fishing spots, but those of us that have fished here for many decades know that something has happened to this system that has had a very profound negative impact. bob