To help you Find Places: Use Apps and Google Maps
HuntFishNY is a free DEC app that you can download onto your cell phone that will show all DEC access locations and public fishing rights in the entire of New York State. It will also provide mapping showing you exactly where you are located. Highly recommended. Most of the access sites are for Trout but other species may be available.
TroutRoutes is another app with an annual subscription fee (about $60) that works in the entire United States. https://troutroutes.com/
Susquehanna River:
Goudey Station Johnson City Side – Park in William Hill Park (access from Main Street turning down Camden Street and then right on Elbon Street. Walk diagonally toward river upstream to ward Goudey Station. Wade across Little Coconut Creek and then across riffle to island. Good bass fishing. 42.110689, -75.979315
Goudey Station Vestal Side – Drive from Old Vestal Road down Gates Road to end (or Commerce road to end and then left). Park across from pumping station. Walk in downstream direction and step over wire. Walk bank downstream and follow trail (will walk under old iron RR bridge) until it comes out below the falls. Good fishing there especially if baitfish are in. Fish below the falls. 42.110689, -75.979315
Campville Access – Park in parking lot on Vestal side at Campville Bridge (next to Route 17 West on ramp). 42.067542, -76.144375 Fish upstream or downstream. Can also follow trail in woods from parking lot and walk downstream to end of islands. Fishes best beyond the last island fished while standing on the last island sandbar casting toward the Route 17 side bank. The latter is a relatively long trek.) 42.073057, -76.150629
Under Route 17 Bridge in Vestal. Take Old Vestal Road to Pearl Street. Park just east of Oak Street on side of road. 42.098106, -76.025615 Follow trail toward river. Climb over flood control embankment and fish the pilings near the bridge. Go only when water flow is low.
River Road access on Johnson City Side – Take River Road off E. Main Street but park at corner of Argon Road. 42.108314, -76.011542 Walk toward river on River Road and take trail on right hand side just before the sharp left turn. 42.107416, -76.010905 Numerous places to fish. Downstream you will be opposite Murphy Island. Most places have high bank and edge wade access is situational. Watch out for mud flats. There is a solid sand bar just below the downstream end of Murphy Island. 42.104372, -76.012558 River road is a popular catfish area for hardware fishermen. Area has some deep water and can produce musky/pike and walleye. Bring mosquito repellant if you go there.
Back of Home Depot – Johnson City. Park in Home Depot (back lot) 42.115665, -75.982492 and go over flood control berm. Can be difficult for fly rod due to riverside brush. Access spotty.
Chenango River
Otsiningo Park – Enter Otsiningo Park and go to the last parking area near the river just before the road starts to loop back. You can fish anywhere along the river. One of the best spots is to walk up the walking trail (effectively upstream). Trail will move away from river, go up a small hill, and then back down. You will see a corrugated metal fence rail on the right side of the trail. When you reach the end of the rail, there is a footpath down the bank to the river. Fishing here can be good for bass and fall fish. Streamers and sometimes dries work. You can wade fish from here all the way back to your car. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1291284,-75.9022848,1215m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
Port Crane – Intersection of Route 369 and Ballyhack Road. Walk along stream until it enters the river. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1660611,-75.8337149,16.67z?entry=ttu
Near Katelville Road – Take Route 88 exiting onto Route 12A. Turn left and cross bridge. Turn left inot lot opposite Katelville Road. Take left dirt road down to parking next to the river. Check to make sure access allowed as lot is a business. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1666491,-75.8734131,335m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
Tioughnioga River
Whitney Point – Downstream of bridge on village side. Basically across from Aeillo’s Restaurant) near Intersection of East Main (the Bridge road) and Route 11. There is a pull off before you get to the bridge on the right hand side (driving north) on Route 11. You can take it and drive down the bank and park on the edge of the river. Streamers work best here. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3285882,-75.965551,336m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
Owego Creek
East branch – https://extapps.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/r7ebrowegpfr.pdf
West Branch – There are 2.6 miles of PFR along the West Branch of Owego Creek. There are three official PFR parking areas, and anglers also use unofficial pulloffs along the stream. County forest land bordering the river just north of Speedsville is another access point. https://extapps.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/r7wbowepfr.pdf
Park Settlement Road off Route 38 in Owego where road corosses bridge over West Branch Owego Creek. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Park+Settlement+Rd,+New+York/@42.1537682,-76.2659681,1350m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89da906edfaf0399:0x453f22f145204299!8m2!3d42.1651495!4d-76.259383!16s%2Fg%2F1tvymsf2?entry=ttu
Talcot Street Bridge over West Branch Owego Creek in Owego https://www.google.com/maps/place/Talcott+St,+New+York+13827/@42.1105873,-76.2762353,1571m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89da99fe8a718489:0xd16f79c674a7ec18!8m2!3d42.1107653!4d-76.2732407!16s%2Fg%2F1tm2bnzb?entry=ttu
Route 17C just past Canal Street in Owego https://www.google.com/maps/place/Canal+St,+Owego,+NY+13827/@42.0966853,-76.2751054,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89da99e044f2de1b:0x37c614cb3082477!8m2!3d42.0963315!4d-76.2727975!16s%2Fg%2F1t_wqbs1?entry=ttu
End of Canal Street in Owego (Boat launch area) – same link as above.
Additional notes below from Anthony Palombaro
The Lackawanna has been very warm so I will save that for fall, but fishing has been decent on the WB at the water treatment plant in Deposit, the park in Deposit and further down so maybe we set up a day or evening there? Thoughts?
I would suggest the Chenango either at Otsiningo Park or the park at Hillcrest or enter at the DEC access in Chenango Forks where you get in at the mouth of the Tioughnioga and fish or walk down to where it meets the Chenango… about a quarter mile. This is just upstream and on the opposite bank from Chenango Valley State Park where I have also entered the Chenango. Last spot to consider entering the Chenango is from the McGirks parking lot. In low water there is a lot of wadable water and I’ve had good smallie days and evenings there. There is a DEC access just across the road from the McGirks entrance but I have found it difficult sometimes to walk under the bridge upstream to the spots I like. They do play golf near the parking lot so parker beware:)
Certainly, Greenwood or Nanticoke lake could be good beginner spots if he’s not wading but I haven’t been there in a while so I would leave this for others to validate.
As for the Susquehanna, I have gone in at the park mentioned above that is behind the Home Depot, and in lower or medium water I have entered through the Grippen Park boat access or the DEC access in Apalachin.
Ifyou have a boat and a PA license, there is a boat access at Quaker Lake and the lake has been fully stocked with trout for years. There are good bass fishing spots for wading on the East Branch of Wyalusing Creek just west of Lawton and in the spring, they stock the north branch, Gaylord Creek and the East Branch but they get fished out fast and become bass water this time of year. This is the same for Salt Springs Park and Snake Creek down by me but at this point they are pretty well fished out and do not really hold bass.
