Activities and events for lovers of nature.
Humphrey is a town in Cattaraugus County and named after politician Charles Humphrey. Humphrey is an interior town in the eastern half of the county, northeast of the City of Salamanca.
Gowanda is a town and village that is in Cattaraugus County and Erie County.
Gowanda was settled in 1810 by Turner Aldrich and incorporated as Gowanda in 1848. The name "Gowanda" came from the Seneca Indian phrase of "a valley among the hills" or "under the cliffs."
This is designed as a guide to anglers in locating the higher quality stocked and un-stocked trout streams in western NY. It is not intended as a list of all the wild trout streams, nor all the streams where trout are stocked. Lists of all stocked streams are available from this office.
Western New York has a number of streams that offer high duality lake-run steelhead fishing from November through March.