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Merwin: Odd Fishing Spots
By John Merwin
A bass grows in Brooklyn, to paraphrase an old book title. Or so I hear. I’ve just packed a little tackle for a weekend trip to New York City. There, in the heart of Brooklyn, is Prospect Park Lake. It’s a 43-acre pond that New York biologists say has one of the highest densities of largemouths per acre in the state.
My leaving the country for the city is unusual, but it’s a family visit and I’m being a good sport. Sneaking a little fishing in seems to me to be a perfectly legitimate pay-off. And I’m intrigued by the idea of catching fish in an unusual place.
I’ve fished other odd places. One of Colorado’s best tailwaters--the Blue River-- runs through a shopping center in Silverthorne, and there’s a nice pool with big fish right behind the 7-11 store. Walkways nearby let you look down on football-shaped rainbows that get fat on Mysis shrimp washing out of the upstream reservoir. Needless to say, these fish are very difficult to fool.
Falling Spring Run in Pennsylvania comes to mind, too, a charming little spring creek that glides past suburban lawns and under a major highway. Early one morning I stepped out of my adjacent motel room after being woken by the passing of big trucks. With just a few steps I was looking at where the creek spilled though a culvert and saw the darting shapes of trout as they spooked into the shadows.
So maybe Brooklyn bass aren’t so odd after all. We’ll see....
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Brooklyn's Prospect Park Lake is a great place for catch-and-release fishing. For more than 60 years budding young anglers have been enjoying the annual Macy's Fishing Contest each summer.
See the Park's web site for some info on the contest
http://www.prospectpark.org/calendar/event/fishingcontest
and info on fishing
http://www.prospectpark.org/visit/activities/fishing
Enjoy!
I don't know how odd it is but growing up in FL you could go to any body of water and catch fish, including apartment comexes and malls
Just spotted some smallmouth in a small river by the dog park.
I could have never imagined a 43 acre pond in Brooklyn. Good luck John. I hope you catch a bunch.
As for strange fishing spots. I waded out to this small island off the coast of Florida with my fly rod one day. I had never been to this place before but I could see people on the island from shore and I guessed they waded to get there. I waded out across the open stretch of shallow water to the island. Well, lets just say they were all dudes and none of them were wearing clothes. I quickly waded back.
The Twin Cities has great urban fishing for muskie, northern, walleye, bass and panfish. It is not the most idyllic scenery but great fishing is great fishing.
I caught my biggest smallmouth out of the Potomac just south of DC. The bank was littered with trash but the bass were biting.
Have fun in Brooklyn, fishing is definitely good payback for being a good sport.
I hooked my first trout on a fly rod less that 20 feet from a McDonald's parking lot. The Androscoggin River in Gorham, NH.
There is an awesome brook trout stream behind a hotel in Summerville, WV.
Here in Washington, NC we are about 2 1/2 months away from Tarpon rolling up the river. Saw several big schools of them last year right of the docks where I catch crappie every April. I thought people were messing with me when I first moved here until I saw them for myself.
I'm not much of a racing fan, but when my family got tickets for the Indianapolis 500 lawn seats I of course went and took my fishing pole. I was fishing in one of the ponds on the golf course in the infield of the track, and doing quite well catching sizable warmouth when security informed me that there was no fishing on the premises. I spent the rest of the day bored, watching the race.
I know all aboutb the odd places... not to brag or anything but almost every body of water that is something more than just a large puddle holds some kind of fish down here. It is crazy... guess lucky too. But I am enjoying it. Good luck fishing in New York!
Hey chuckles,
When I lived in Minnesota, my dad had a business "bonding" trip when he worked at the Target HQ. He got to plan the trip, and it had to be close to the office building, so he chose fishing in the Mississippi right there in Minneapolis! He found a guide and pulled some strings to get me there with him. We caught a mess of nice Walleye right there in downtown, especially under 35W :/ glad I wasn't under that bridge at the wrong time.
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Brooklyn's Prospect Park Lake is a great place for catch-and-release fishing. For more than 60 years budding young anglers have been enjoying the annual Macy's Fishing Contest each summer.
See the Park's web site for some info on the contest
http://www.prospectpark.org/calendar/event/fishingcontest
and info on fishing
http://www.prospectpark.org/visit/activities/fishing
Enjoy!
I don't know how odd it is but growing up in FL you could go to any body of water and catch fish, including apartment comexes and malls
Just spotted some smallmouth in a small river by the dog park.
I could have never imagined a 43 acre pond in Brooklyn. Good luck John. I hope you catch a bunch.
As for strange fishing spots. I waded out to this small island off the coast of Florida with my fly rod one day. I had never been to this place before but I could see people on the island from shore and I guessed they waded to get there. I waded out across the open stretch of shallow water to the island. Well, lets just say they were all dudes and none of them were wearing clothes. I quickly waded back.
The Twin Cities has great urban fishing for muskie, northern, walleye, bass and panfish. It is not the most idyllic scenery but great fishing is great fishing.
I caught my biggest smallmouth out of the Potomac just south of DC. The bank was littered with trash but the bass were biting.
Have fun in Brooklyn, fishing is definitely good payback for being a good sport.
I hooked my first trout on a fly rod less that 20 feet from a McDonald's parking lot. The Androscoggin River in Gorham, NH.
There is an awesome brook trout stream behind a hotel in Summerville, WV.
Here in Washington, NC we are about 2 1/2 months away from Tarpon rolling up the river. Saw several big schools of them last year right of the docks where I catch crappie every April. I thought people were messing with me when I first moved here until I saw them for myself.
I'm not much of a racing fan, but when my family got tickets for the Indianapolis 500 lawn seats I of course went and took my fishing pole. I was fishing in one of the ponds on the golf course in the infield of the track, and doing quite well catching sizable warmouth when security informed me that there was no fishing on the premises. I spent the rest of the day bored, watching the race.
I know all aboutb the odd places... not to brag or anything but almost every body of water that is something more than just a large puddle holds some kind of fish down here. It is crazy... guess lucky too. But I am enjoying it. Good luck fishing in New York!
Hey chuckles,
When I lived in Minnesota, my dad had a business "bonding" trip when he worked at the Target HQ. He got to plan the trip, and it had to be close to the office building, so he chose fishing in the Mississippi right there in Minneapolis! He found a guide and pulled some strings to get me there with him. We caught a mess of nice Walleye right there in downtown, especially under 35W :/ glad I wasn't under that bridge at the wrong time.
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