Nice clint!!! Ive freed up some time finally and hit douglaston this evening with my son. Managed to hook two steelies on a pink worm. Let my son try to reel in the first and he lost it. The second one was a brief hook up. My son managed a small mouth on a rapala and i caught a chub. Quite a few fish were doing aerial assaults chasing the salmon smolts in which two of them were clearly atlantics... wish i had the fly rod and some streamers as i probably wouldve done better, but a good time was had....relaxxing for sure. Apparently the morning bite has been the best. Maybe before they close on may 14th i'll get a chance. Im hoping for a cooler rain evenet to spice things up a little and maybe make one last hurrah for the steelhead season... tight lines guys and happy summer!!!

You got it Godfrey point, first time launching from there so it was an experiment .   Will post up some pics tomorrow if they came out

 


The eye was just under 16  but the Bass were HOGS  one almost 20 and the other almost 21

Clint, awesome bass... id say the girth is even more impressive than the lengths....

Those are very nice Bass,don't see them that size around here too often.

Nice Clint, that side of the lake is pretty rocky on the bottom good for smallies. I fish straight out in front of godfrey more days than not. I was in that area on opening day in 17' of water trolling worm harnesses, the three rod thing is pretty nice, two guys six rods, sweet!

Nice smallies Clint.  Some of the reservoirs in the area have them, some getting up to seven pounds, waldo's too.  Need a row boat to fish those impoundments since no motors allowed, electric or gas.  The other draw back is that you have to leave the boat at that particular body of water, no transporting from reservoir to reservoir.  There are over a dozen such reservoirs in Westchester and Putnam counties so you can go broke if you put a boat on each one.  The way to go is to purchase confiscated boats at auction.  Every year the DEP/NYC auctions off boats that they have removed because their registration with the agency has expired.     

Gerry,that policy with keeping your boat on a particular water and not being able to move it to another is UNREAL! Is that something Obama dreamed up to spread the wealth?

Jack-It has always been that way for as long as I can remember with the NYC Reservoir system.  Once you find a reservoir you would like to fish you have to find an area to place the boat as some reservoirs are at capacity.  Once you find an open spot you must bring your boat to a DEP Maintenance area had have it pressure washed before you can store it at the location/reservoir you chose.  The boat has to remain at the same fishing area for the remainder of the season.  If you remove it before seasons end to take on vacation you have to repeat the process. 
In 2004 I bid on and won three two boat lots with the intention of putting five of the six boats on the reservoir and register the last to use wherever I so chose.  The lots consisted of three jon boats (12-14' Grumman & Starcraft) and three semi v-hull (12-14' Grumman & Starcraft).  What I found out after the fact was the boats were being auctioned as salvage without clear title and bill of sale.  After a couple of years of trying to find ways to get the boats properly registered I gave up.  All the above boats had HIN's (Hull Identification Numbers) and my concern was that the previous owner would report the boat as stolen thereby making me in possession of stolen property.  I finally sold the boats to a guy who has made a handsome living buying the same boats over and over again at auction from the DEP.  Not worth the hassle as far as I'm concerned.

You may also want to conisider that the NYC reservoirs are some of the last lake size waters around with no zebra mussels, no hyrdrilla, none of the invasive species problems associated with taking boats from one place to another.  It also works to keep the pressure spread around; not everyone can go to Pepacton one weekend, and then Cannonsville the next.  This may be part of why they have such excellant populations of hefty brown trout!
 
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