Which state has the best ice fishing oppportunities?

[Irish Jigger]

LMBO....well i guess its time for NY to learn to spell also.....last time I checked it was MAINE..and their! and "got to" should be "needs to"...since we are discussing english.

That was the joke dude, the mistakes are taken from previous posts and other threads. Not to quick on the trigger where you're from I guess.

[KissMyBassNH]

 I got a kick out of it. Was that a real newspaper artical?

yeah i cant belive the person actually wrote that in the paper and it never got edited, i think it was some stupid lady and she actually belived him

[Raquettedacker]

I've got to remember that incase I'm ever interviewed. That's great it made the paper..

[howesfc]

Here in NY State we are the gateway for all the exotic invasive species of fish!

[Neversink Jimmy]

Ladies and gentlemen- I present to you, the Round Goby...  Enjoy.

[coldbum]

There are over 2,300 lakes and ponds, 200 lakes of at least one square mile in area, 1,500 miles of rivers, 30,000 miles of brooks and streams in the Adirondacks.  Whats that old saying? I love NY!

[CHICKENFOOT]

Did anyone say New Jersey ..just kidding  the only good fishing is done on private lakes and you have to know some one!! even Greenwood and Hopatcong have very little public access  and you guys north and west of us are very lucky...

[pooley]

new york has plenty enough ice up north, and little enough down here to challenge any tastes.

With more than 7,500 lakes and ponds, 50,000 miles of rivers and streams, and hundreds of miles of coastline, New York State has some of the finest fishing in the country.

[northernnyice]

LMBO....well i guess its time for NY to learn to spell also.....last time I checked it was MAINE..and their! and "got to" should be "needs to"...since we are discussing english.

i think he was making a sarcastic point bud...to make him look worse

[ICEMAN73]

WNY

[Raquettedacker]

Adirondacks....

[Fishn'Rod]

 I think that the ice fishing opportunities in Maine and NY are pretty similar, though perch and panfishing is taken a lot more seriously in NY. 

[Raquettedacker]

Welcome to the site mainer in ny..

[bucketbass]

Not saying we have the best, but this is a few of what we have to fish for.

Native brook trout
Lake trout/togue
Salmon
Brown Trout
Rainbow trout
Splake
Blueback trout

LM bass
SM bass
Pike
Pickerel
Muskie
Stripped bass

White/ yellow perch
Sunfish/panfish
Crappie
Horn pout
Eel

Various chubs
Suckers
and a bunch of other junk/baitfish.

+ all the salt water fish which i'm not good at naming.
And i'm sure I forgot a few

Oneida and ontario have just about all these species you have listed.and thats only two of our lakes...oneida alone has over 50 species...sorry maine folk other than your lobsters we got it to....there are a bunch of different strainsof brookies also native sure are mostly from NY waters

[dk_kon]

  I love Ny ( .... well the ice fishing at least)

[dabprod]

I'm glad that I live in NY for its fishing opportunities and for many other reasons, but I won't pretend that it has the best fishing of any state or province. OVERALL, how can any place compete with what Alaska or most of Canada has to offer.

A lot of lakes does not great fishing make. NY has millions of people harvesting fish from its waters. Most of the ponds and lakes in what should have the best fishing, the Adirondacks, have been wiped out by acid rain. The pictures posted on here tell the story. The guys posting 30# pike pics from Manitoba don't understand what all the fuss is about, yet a 20# pike from NY is pretty big news. I have never heard of a Canadian paying to take a freshwater fishing trip in the US, but all hardcore American fishermen seem to have a Canada trip on their TO DO list. That's all you need to know.

Well said defuller, I never thought of it that way before, but how many sporting camps have you seen on the Hudson River booked up with Canadian fishermen