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We always wonder how the people fishing at various points in the city do, and now we know that there are some huge fish biting off the shores. Reader Ryan Eugene Kelley sent us this anecdote and photographs from his friend, Rodney Calhoun:
Bed Stuy resident Percy, seen here riding a Queens bound G train to Bedford Nostrand, battled his giant 43 lb striped bass all morning. Wilson caught the giant fish behind a school in Far Rockaway using clams for bait. "They're smart you see, all morning they were just sucking the bait, not really striking it you know". But eventually Wilson got the strike he'd been looking for, and now he and his family will be eating striped bass for weeks to come. "I'm gonna fillet it up soon as I get home, then I'm gonna take a nap, that fish wore me out."Awesome! Here's information about fishing in NYC from the Parks department.
Photographs by Rodney Calhoun
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Isn't that guy on Andy Milonakis
This is why I read gothamist.
This is probably the one and only time i will ever say "only in new york"
LOL!
That subway car must have reeked
Fresh fish does not smell and if the AC was cranked as it should be, the fish should be OK.
any fisherman would be proud of that catch. Great pic.
I wonder how many chemicals are in that fish.
"I wonder how many chemicals are in that fish"
Probably just as many as are in you and I.
theres bound to be people on that train stinkier than that fish
As a regular fisherman in the NY sound, there's no way that fish is 43 pounds!! Not even close. Try more like 15 tops.
This is a 38 pounder, and it's twice as big www.wayneswords.com/emAlbumv21/albums/stripebass/2005/danporter38stb.jpg
I caught one that size on Saturday, and it was only 14 pounds. Good fish story though.
it'd better if he was on a crowed 4/5/6 train.
That's a great pic. Cool to see stories like this. Keep it up.
NO way that is a 43 lb fish. But great pic.
lol @ replacing wedding stats. yeah, jen, we get it.
how do you get to far rockaway by subway? sounds fishy to me.
You take the subway to far rockaway, same subway to get to rockaway beach.
You can fish off a bridge there. Where are you from?
Wow, this post ruled.
hear hear. good post. now less weddings and you're closer to NY spirit.
You take the A train to Far Rockaway
I always love how scared people get when they see the train's going right over Jamaica Bay...
"Did you weigh the chain too doc?"
Yeah right! That's a total photoshop job. Fish don't get that big, not even in New York.
there is alot of places you can fish, that the trains take ya in brooklyn.
i wonder what smells worse? this dude with the bass on his back, or the homeless guy in the next car who defecated on himself for the second time today?
Percy's my hero.
That's at least 20 lbs if it's an ounce. It's almost as long as his leg in the photo.
That fish is easily 3 feet long, and coming from me, a long-time largemouth bass fisherman from SC, that fish is indeed in the 30-40 pound range. Also, check out the fish slime on the guy's back....it ain't Photoshopped!
Funny.. I have a picture of a guy holding a frying pan and a stick of butter on the G train later that morning.
I believe fish can get that big off NYC shores - mutated ones!
43 lbs , not even close , might hit 14 or 15 , anyway nice fish
43 lbs is possible... of course, thats IS including all the lead and mercury that was found in the fish.
Um the title should have been how a 12 lb fish is stated as a 43 pounder