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Allegheny River
Location: A river rising in north-central Pennsylvania and flowing about 523 km (325 mi) northwest into New York then southwest into Pennsylvania again, where it joins the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River.

Arthur Kill (tidal strait)
is a tidal strait separating Staten Island from mainland New Jersey, USA. Throughout history, it has also been known as Staten Island Sound.

Au Sable River
The Au Sable River Association (ASRA) is a non-profit, membership-based organization, created in August of 1998 through a grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program. The association was originally created to implement recommendations found in the Au Sable River Study of 1991.

Basher Kill
The Basha Kill lies in the valley between the Shawangunks and the Catskills, flowing south from about Summitville to join the Neversink below the wetlands, and on to the Delaware River.

Battenkill
The Batten Kill has its origins in the Green and Taconic Mountains of Vermont. The watershed area of about 450 square miles lies within nineteen towns of New York and Vermont. The river begins in forested headwaters and flows through towns, farms, fields, and forests, turning west to enter New York and join the Hudson.

Beaverkill River
The Beaverkill River is located in the South Central part of New York State. One of the most famous rivers in the Northeast, it flows almost 44 miles through the Catskill Mountains until it joins the East Branch of the Delaware.

Beaver River
One-fifth of the Beaver River is located in Brown's Tract, Herkimer County, NY. Brown's Tract was named for John Brown of Providence, RI, who acquired nearly 200,000 acres of land in upstate NY in 1798 in a wilderness eventually referred to as the Adirondack Mountains.

Boquet River
The Boquet River, located in Northeastern New York, is not known for its trout population, but for its Atlantic Salmon runs. Flowing into Lake Champlain, and with the construction of the fish ladder in Willsboro, these acrobatic salmon can migrate up the Boquet some 12 miles to the falls at Wadhams. This fishery gives anglers the opportunity to catch landlocked Atlantic Salmon as large as 10 pounds.

Boreas River
The Boreas River is located in the central region of the Adirondack State Park. It does not contain any major waterfalls, but has several exquisite little cascades. An easy, flat trail leads along it for a little over a mile.

Bronx Kill (tidal strait)
Bronx Kill is a narrow strait in New York City delineating the southernmost extent of The Bronx and separating it from Randall's Island. It connects the Harlem River to the East River. The Triborough Bridge's Bronx span crosses from the toll booths at Randall's Island atop the kill into the Bronx.

Bronx River
The Bronx River, approximately 24 miles (38 km) long, flows through southeast New York in the United States. Its Native American name was the Aquahung before the arrival of European colonists, like Jonas Bronck, for whom the Bronx and its river are named, in 1639. It rises in the Kensico Reservoir, in Westchester County north of New York City. It flows south past White Plains, then south-southwest through the northern suburbs, passing Edgemont, Tuckahoe, Eastchester, Westchester County, New York, and Bronxville. It divides Yonkers from Mount Vernon, and flows into the northern end of The Bronx, southward through Bronx Park and through urbanized areas of the Bronx. It empties into the East River, a tidal strait connected to Long Island Sound, between the Soundview and Hunts Point neighborhoods.

Buffalo River
The Buffalo River watershed encompasses approximately 445 square miles and and drains portions of Buffalo and Wyoming counties in western New York state, including three major subwatersheds: Cayuga, Buffalo, and Cazenovia Creeks. The Buffalo River is a tributary to Lake Erie and discharges to a Federal navigation channel at Buffalo Harbor in Buffalo, New York.

Byram River
The Byram River is a river, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long, in southeast New York and southwestern Connecticut in the United States. The river has an elevation of 750 feet (228 m) at its headwaters at Byram Lake in Westchester County, New York, and flows in a southward direction, crossing the New York-Connecticut border and eventually reaching sea level at Port Chester Harbor, where it empties into the Long Island Sound. The lower portion of the river is paralleled by the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut and eventually forms the westernmost portion of the New York-Connecticut border.

Canisteo River
The Canisteo River is a tributary of the Tioga River, approximately 55 mi (90 km) long, in western New York in the United States. It drains a dissected plateau, a portion of the northern Allegheny Plateau southwest of the Finger Lakes region, in the northwestern reach of the watershed of the Susquehanna River.

Catatonk Creek
Catatonk Creek begins in Spencer Lake and travels south to Spencer, east to Candor, then southeast until it joins the Owego Creek just north of Owego. It is navigable from Spencer to Candor, but we don’t recommend this section. Paddling is impeded by low bridges, dams, low water and barbed wire fences crossing the waterway.

Catherine Creek
Catharine Creek is a roughly 15 mile (24 km) long stream that flows through Chemung and Schuyler counties in New York state. It was named after Catharine Montour. Catharine Creek rises atop a ridge in the Town of Veteran in Chemung County. It flows south to an area known locally as the Holding Point in Horseheads. It then flows back to the north, mostly alongside Route 14, through the communities of Pine Valley, Millport, Montour Falls, and Watkins Glen.

Catskill Creek
From the time of the first Native-Americans, the juncture of the Hudson River and Catskill Creek was an important geographical inroad westward.

Cattaraugus Creek
Cattaraugus Creek is a stream, approximately 68 miles (109 km) long, in western New York in the United States. The creek drains a wooded rural portion of western New York southwest of Buffalo into Lake Erie. In its lower course it flows primarily through the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca tribe. The word "Cattaraugus" means "foul-smelling river bank." This name is a result of the natural gas that oozes from the river mud.

Cayuga Creek
Cayuga Creek is a small river in Western New York, USA. The creek enters Buffalo Creek in the northwest corner of the Town of West Seneca just upstream from the New York State Thruway crossing. At that point, Buffalo Creek becomes the Buffalo River and flows into Lake Erie from Buffalo, New York. The creek is named after the Cayuga tribe, one of the constituent members of the Iroquois.

Cayuta Creek
Cayuta Creek (Kay-YOO-tuh) is a tributary of the North Branch of the Susquehanna River that flows through Schuyler, Chemung and Tioga counties in New York state, and Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It is approximately 40 miles (64 km) long, rising at Cayuta Lake, sometimes locally referred to as Little Lake, near Alpine in the Town of Catherine, in eastern Schuyler County.

Chadakoin River
Chadakoin River: Jamestown to Falconer; Submitted by David Smith and Gary Lawson: October, 2004.
Put-in: Behind the old Ames building, off Harrison Street in Jamestown. We then moved the drop-off vehicle to the Big Lots parking lot across the street, where it would be safer. Take-out: The county-maintained launch point in Levant, just beyond the Falconer expressway exit.
Time: 2 hours.

Chateaugay River

Chaumont River

Chemung River

Chenango River

Clyde River

Cohocton River

Cold River

Connetquot River

Cross River

Croton River

Cowanesque River

Deer River

Delaware River

East Branch Delaware River
The East Branch Delaware River, approximately 75 miles (120 km) long in the U.S. state of New York, is one of two branches, along with the West Branch, that join to form the Delaware River. It flows through a mountainous area on the southwestern edge of the Catskill Mountains.
It rises in eastern Delaware County near the hamlet of Grand Gorge and flows initially SSW, through Roxbury, then WSW through Margaretville, forming part of the northern boundary of Catskill Park. East of Downsville it is impounded to form the 15 miles (24 km) Pepacton Reservoir. It receives the Beaverkill River from the southeast at East Branch. It joins the West Branch at Hancock, on the border with Pennsylvania, to form the Delaware. The river is a popular destination for fly fishing for brown trout.

East River (tidal strait)

Ellicott Creek

Fishkill Creek

Flint Creek

Fresh Kills

Genesee River

Grass River

Great Chazy River
The Great Chazy is a lazy river that runs from Chazy Lake to Lake Champlain. Most of the river is broken up by shallow rapids that make it impossible to boat in. However, the last 6 miler of the river (from Champlain to the mouth in Coopersville) make for a wonderful and beautiful paddling experience.

Hackensack River

Harlem River (tidal strait)

Hoosic River

Hudson River

Hutchinson River

Indian River

Jessup River

Kayderosseras Creek

Kill Van Kull (tidal strait)

Kisco River

Kunjamuk River

Little Au Sable River

Little Chazy River

Little River

Little Salmon River

Mad River

Mahwah River

Marble River

Mettawee River

Miami River

Mianus River

Mohawk River

Mongaup River

Moose River

Neversink River
The Neversink's main flow begins just south of the border between Ulster and Sullivan counties, where the east and west branches of the river join near the hamlet of Claryville. Both begin on the slopes of Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskills. The west branch is joined by several major tributaries, such as Biscuit Brook and Pigeon Creek at Frost Valley YMCA in the town of Shandaken, Ulster County. In its upper course it is a rocky and wild stream, ideal for trout fishing although most of the land around it is privately owned. Not far downriver from the confluence in Neversink, it is impounded to form the Neversink Reservoir. It is connected by a 5-mile (8 km) water tunnel to Rondout Reservoir, and subsequently to the Delaware Aqueduct. The Neversink Reservoir resulted in the displacement of many locals as several towns along the river were flooded to make the reservoir.

Niagara River

Nissequogue River

North River (lower Hudson River)

Oak Orchard River

Oatka Creek

Oneida River

Oswegatchie River

Oswego River

Otselic River

Owego Creek
A stream that flows southward through the west side of the town and is joined by the Catatonk Creek before it enters the Susquehanna River.

Peconic River
is a river in Long Island's Suffolk County, New York in the United States. The river is located in the eastern end of Long Island. The Peconic River flows into Flanders Bay which in turn connects to Peconic Bay east of Riverhead. The river originates in bogs and wetlands in central Long Island near the Brookhaven National Laboratory and flows eastward to the Peconic Bay. It is the longest river on Long Island and is almost entirely within the Central Long Island Pine Barrens which was set up in 1993 to protect its relative wilderness standing. It is fresh water until about the center of Riverhead where it becomes an estuary. The river is slow-moving, making it ideal for canoeists. It forms the border between Brookhaven and Riverhead towns as well as the border between Riverhead and Southampton (town), New York.

Perch River

Poultney River

Ramapo River
The Ramapo River is a tributary of the Pompton River, approximately 30 mi (48 km) long, in southern New York and northern New Jersey in the United States. It rises in a mountainous area of central Orange County, New York, near Monroe and flows southeast to Harriman, then south into western Rockland County, then into northern Bergen County, New Jersey. In New Jersey, it flows SSW, along the east side of the ridge of the Ramapo Mountains. It flows into Potash Lake in Oakland and officially ends at Pompton Lake in Pompton Lakes. The river is a popular destination for fly fishing of trout. The New York State Thruway follows the valley of the river in Orange County.

Raquette River
The Raquette River, sometimes spelled Racquette, originates at Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. The river passes through many natural and man made lakes to its final destination at Akwesasne on the Saint Lawrence River. Unique to a river of its size, the Raquette flows north. The river is a popular destination for canoeing and kayaking. It is also the source of 27 hydroelectric plants operated by Brookfield Power, which at capacity can produce up to 181 megawatts of power. It is the second longest river in the state of New York behind the Hudson River.

Richmond Creek (Staten Island)

Rondout Creek

Sacandaga River

Saint Lawrence River

Saint Regis River

Salmon River

Saranac River

Saw Mill River

Schoharie Creek
Schoharie Creek in New York, USA flows from the foot of Indian Head in the Catskill Mountains to the Mohawk River. It is twice impounded north of Prattsville to create New York City's Schoharie Reservoir and the Blenheim-Gilboa Power Project.

Schroon River

Seneca River

Silvermine River

Stone Hill River

Susquehanna River
The Susquehanna River (originally "Sasquesahanough" per the 1612 John Smith map) is a river located in the northeastern United States. At approximately 444 mi (715 km) long, it is the longest river on the American east coast and the 16th longest in the United States. The Susquehanna forms from two main branches, with the North Branch, which rises in upstate New York often regarded as an extension of the main branch. The shorter West Branch, which rises in western Pennsylvania, is sometimes regarded as the principal tributary, joining the North Branch near Northumberland in central Pennsylvania. The river drains 27,500 square miles (71,225 km²), covering nearly half of the land area of Pennsylvania and portions of New York and Maryland. The drainage basin includes portions of the Allegheny Plateau region of the Appalachian Mountains, cutting through water gaps in the lateral mountain ridges in a broad zigzag course to flow across the rural heartland of southeastern Pennsylvania and northeastern Maryland. The river empties into the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay, the ria of the Susquehanna, providing half of the freshwater inflow for the entire Chesapeake Bay.

Swamp River

Tenmile River, tributary of Delaware River

Tenmile River, tributary of Housatonic River

Tioga River

Tioughnioga River

Titicus River

Tonawanda Creek

Trout River

Unadilla River
The Unadilla River in New York State flows from south of Utica to the Village of Sidney where it flows into the Susquehanna River, which eventually empties into the Chesapeake Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the length of the Unadilla forms the western border of Otsego County and the eastern borders of Chenango and Madison Counties. This border made up a significant portion of the Fort Stanwix Treaty Line of 1768.

Waccabuc River

Wallkill River

Walloomsac River

Wampus River

Wappinger Creek

West Branch Delaware River
approximately 90 mi (144 km) long in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania, is one of the two branches, along with the East Branch, that join to form the Delaware River. Along most of its course, it flows through a mountainous area of New York in the northern Catskill Mountains. It rises in Schoharie County, New York and flows generally southwest, entering Delaware County and flowing past Stamford and Delhi. In southwestern Delaware County it flows in an increasingly winding course through the mountains, generally southwest. At Stilesville it is impounded to form the Cannonsville Reservoir. At Deposit, on the border between Broome and Delaware counties, it turns sharply to the southeast and is paralleled by New York State Route 17. It joins the East Branch at Hancock to form the Delaware. For the lower 6 mi (10 km) it forms part of the boundary between New York and Pennsylvania. The river is considered one of the best fly fishing trout streams in the United States, based on its cold water springs and deep pools. The trout population in this river is naturally reproducing, but during the warm months stocked trout from smaller and warmer tributaries will seek sanctuary in its cool water.

List of rivers from Wikipedia

Constitution Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary

Indian Brook Road

Garrison, NY 10524

For a unique glimpse of nature, visit the vast 200-acre wildlife sanctuary operated by the National Audubon Society. Canoe the marsh or enjoy it from the boardwalk or Visitors' Center. Open daily.

Green Chimneys Farm and Wildlife Conservation Center: Putnam Lake Rd.; Brewster NY 10509; 845.279.2995 ext 202; Self-guided tours daily, farm tours for school groups and organizations, traveling petting zoo, horseback riding lessons and many special events throughout the year. Summer day camps include horseback riding, boating, ropes course, farm visits, nature crafts, fishing, archery and swimming instruction.

Guide To Stream Trout Fishing on New York City Watershed Property in Putnam County: Trout anglers will find many fine fishing opportunities on stream segments downstream of nine New York City Reservoirs. Combined, these nine stream segments offer over 13 miles of publicly accessible trout water. In most cases, brown trout are the most common species, while in others, rainbow and sometimes even an occasional brook trout provide diversity. In recognition of the high quality habitat and excellent thermal regimes present in some of these tailwaters, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation manages three of the best under "Artificial Lures Only" regulations. In two cases, these are coupled with high size limits and low daily limits. In another, we have employed a "No Kill"regulation. On all three of the streams the goal is to give trout additional protection, compared to the regular statewide regulations, in an effort to keep more fish in the stream and to allow more to reach larger sizes. Where natural spawning is especially significant, the trout season runs from April 1 to September 30; others have longer seasons.

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