My thoughts on Muscoot and Silver Lake

[Riqiv]

Silver Lake was suggested here to me (on my Wampus Pond introductory post) and I thought I’d visit it. I’ve been there twice and haven’t caught but you can see the bass jumping.  I was thinking what a nice place to live…until my second visit. Around 7 PM, after some horse racing on a PA system, a DJ came on and started cursing. I like to fish because it calms me. This wasn’t calming ?

 

So back to Golden’s Bridge train station today. The cove I usually fish had quite a bit of algae in the water and the water was low, so I walked along the shore to where I saw some bait fish.

 

I see this could be promising, so I cast past the weeds and reel in quickly when I reach them so I don’t get stuck. I cast 15° to the right and to the left and then 30° to the right and the left, but still nothing and then work the shore.

 

What do they say about insanity, it’s doing the same thing over and over while getting the same result. So I wasn’t catching there, but I have another spot down the road and I get on my bike and head over there. (You see, the cove is for the afternoon in the sun because it’s shaded, and later in the day I head over to my secondary spot on the Muscoot.)

 

There were kids diving off of the bridge near where I fish, but it wasn’t near as annoying as Silver Lake. Sure enough, around 7:20 PM I pulled up a keeper and then a light rain occurred. My train leaves at 8:20 for New York City so I left happy as a clam.

 

I’m happy even when I don’t catch because it’s so beautiful out by the ressies, but bringing a bass or two home is icing on the cake. Well I’ll be headed back to Wampus this weekend, but this time with friends that have a car, and kayaking in Yonkers for my first time.

 

If I can manage it eventually, I’ll try fishing for stripers in the Hudson near Yonkers. I’ll check with the locals first and later this year taking one of those boat trips out of Brooklyn for stripers.

 

Thanks for listening!