Each year the DEC stocks these waters with over 20,000 brown and rainbow trout. Contact us for a complete listing of stocked waters or follow the stocking links in the box above. Those anglers desiring premier trout fishing opportunities in a beautiful setting should plan a visit to either Connetquot or Caleb Smith State Park Preserves. These waters are intensively managed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation as fly fishing parks and provide outstanding fishing for both stocked and sea-run brook, brown, rainbow and tiger trout. Fish over 8 lbs. are not uncommon from these waters.
Fishing is by reservation only.
Warmwater anglers can also find excellent fishing opportunities for many popular game and panfish species, including largemouth and smallmouth bass, chain pickerel, bluegill, yellow perch and black crappie. An extended growing season, along with an increasing catch and release ethic among our anglers, permit many of these fish to grow to trophy sizes. Unlike other areas of the state, an extended bass season stretching into mid-March provides anglers in Nassau and Suffolk counties the opportunity to fish during mild weather periods common during the late winter and early spring. On Long Island anglers may now also fish for walleye in either Lake Ronkonkoma or Fort Pond. These superb gamefish were introduced into these waters beginning in 1994 in an attempt to control an overabundant white and yellow perch population.