Fishing, Bait, Elmira, Corning, Watkins Glen

Southern Tier Fishing
Bait, Tackle, & Fly Shops
Recommended dealers located from Bath to Elmira-Corning to Ithaca to Vestal. Please email me if you feel I should include others

"The Bait Shop", located on 170 Lenox Avenue in Horseheads (off Grand Central Avenue). Live bait of all kinds. Hours of operation are 6 AM to 7 PM. From Route 17/86 in Horseheads, turn south on Grand Central; Lenox is on the left about a half-mile down. 607-732-3292

Nickle Creek Bait & Tackle Shop, 141 E. Gridley Place, Elmira, NY (Southside). Formerly Swarthout's, this bait & tackle store has been serving Elmira area fishermen since 1988, and has a large selection of plastics as well as live baits. 607-734-9233.

Hook, Line and Sinker Bait Shop, 900 West State Street, Ithaca NY 14850. Has live minnows, worms, leeches, crayfish, salted minnows, egg sacs, and sawbellies, plus last minute items such as buckets, nets, hooks, sinkers, line, aerators, spinners, bobbers etc. In the winter they stock spikes, mousies and wax worms for ice fishing. Open all year, 7 days a week and every holiday except for Christmas. (607) 256-1879

Seneca Marine Bait & Tackle, 501 East 4th Street, Watkins Glen, NY. Has every variety of live minnow you'll need for fishing the lakes. Good selection of lures & tackle, including best damn smelting nets around! Always has the scoop on what's hot on the lake. Used fishing boats for sale, too. 607-535-6690.

Wright's Sporting Goods, 95 Ellistown Road, Waverly. Has coin-operated bait vending machines with 24 hour availability. No joke! Say hi to Steve for me. 607-565-9533.

Pinewood Flies, 185 Pine Valley Road, Pine Valley, NY. Operated by Ray Gradner, this local business offers fly tying materials, fly fishing equipment, and instruction. 607-739-4348

Timber Creek Sportsman Shop, One Pumphouse Rd, Vestal, New York 13850. The Southern Tier's only full line Orvis dealer, specializing in fly fishing and fly tying supplies, as well as Beretta shotguns. (607) 754-9112

Dick's Fly Shop, Lockhart Street, Athens Township, PA. 1-570-888-0667. No other information available.

Hesselson's, 163 East 14^th Street, Elmira Heights, NY. Spinning and fly fishing tackle, NY licenses, locally owned. 607-733-4665

Badger Creek Fly Tying, 622 W. Dryden Road, Freeville, NY, 13068. Located just northeast of Ithaca, this fly shop has a large selection of tying materials. Mike Hogue, proprieter, 607-347-4946.

Dick's, Consumer Square Plaza, Big Flats, NY. A regional sporting goods chain with a large selection of rods and reels, waders, lures, and clothing. NY Licenses. Modest fly-fishing and fly-tying section. 607-796-5100.

K-Mart, WalMart, Sears, all have semi-respectable fishing sections; occasionally some decent bargins. WalMart sells New York State fishing licenses.