I met up with Tim Emery of Fishexplorer.com. Here’s the photographic documentation.
The micro slab.
CP Signage
Tim works the shoreline.
Tim shows off some micro slabbage.
Yours truly, CP regular Bill H., and Tim at water's edge.
Bill's 2wt Crappie.
Sighted but not documented: Several worthy largemouth bass and koi.
Bill’s last name Henry. He came out to the Ramapo and fished with me last year. Real nice guy. Looks like you guys had a good time.
*is Henry
Thought he said “Henderson.” Edited to “H” until I get it cleared up.
You can email him at REDACTED.
I believe you. Took out his email though so he doesn’t get spammed
oops, good idea.
nice work gents. gotta love the brown life.
Central Park badassness!
Wow, fishing in Central Park I had no clue one could do that??? Such tiny fish yo got there.
Hey, nice recognition for a good urban locale. We used to fish “The Lake” in CP all the time in the early 90′s and caught mostly little panfish like you show here. We never saw anything too big and wondered if they just never grew that well in there. Late one summer an algae bloom killed off everything in there and the display was awesome. There were largemouth in the 3-4lb range and thousands of fish floating. Definitely some biggies if you can find them. Also a green heron hatched a chick who was learning to hunt off our favorite fishing rock. This attracted some of the sharp NYC audubon crowd and quickly became a news item. The Times honored the birders’ request to keep the location of this unusual resident secret in their article. Sadly, they included in the article a pic that had an incriminating sign along the Park Drive and the next night there was a gaggle of binocular-toting folks crowding out our favorite hole.
I did wonder if posting this was hot spotting because, like you said, anyone can look at a building or sign in the background and figure out where it is in CP. But almost everyone who lives in nyc and owns a fly rod has given it a shot there.
And there are actually some sort of secret spots in the city proper that I wouldn’t post.
definitely wasn’t suggesting that you had sold out anyone fishing in the park – the lake and harlem meer are wide open – just good memories. and truthfully, there was just as much of this:
http://fishingjones.com/2009/04/10/train-beers-good-friday/
going on when we used to fish there. ok, more.
on the other hand, the heron was a classic inadvertent hotspotting.
Didn’t think you were, but made me consider the fine line between posting stuff I like and ruining stuff I like.