4th of July Fireworks. . .
How the Fireworks Started
(NYC 07 04 2019)
(* Excerpt from Small Fry: The Lure of the Little by ron P. swegman. 2009. The Whitefish Press.)
Fireworks!
Happy Fourth of July.
— rPs 07 04 2019
Posts Tagged Tenkara
Summer Sunnies
Summer Sunnies . . .
Bluegill: the Summer Sunfish — This one lured by a Woolly Bugger tied by Dennis Feliciano.
(NYC 06 2019)
The longest days of the year offer an extended opportunity to “fish local” even after a busy weekday at work in the big New York City.
No excuses. There is always time to tackle with some sunnies around the summer solstice!
— rPs 06 30 2019
Spawning Season
Spawning Season . . .
A Gathering of the Tribes: (bass, bluegill, crappie)
(NYC 05 2019)
Shoals of small bluegill gather just below the surface of the open water as the very long shadow of a largemouth bass passes nearby. A large crappie holds guard over a cleared nest within an opening in the weeds near the bank.
It’s May, when all the fish of the pond are active and in sight: Spawning Season.
What a delight it was to see so much piscatorial action in the good company of Garrett Fallon, publisher of Fallon’s Angler, this month. He was in town on business, but found a few hours of time to go fishing in the center of New York City.
He was not disappointed.
First Fish for Mr. Fallon
(NYC 05 2019)
Tenkara offered a new twist in his seasoned hand, which managed to pluck a feisty bluegill from Central Park’s Harlem Meer after just a few casts.
The golden shiner, so much like the European rudd to which he is well acquainted, also rushed to the artificial fly in the bright morning sun.
Golden Shiner, Golden Sunlight
(NYC 05 2019)
Our little trip ended with the big one. The shaded banks and weedy waters held some very large black crappie, the kind some like to call a slab.
A Slab: black crappie dressed in spawning colors
(NYC 05 2019)
May is spawning season; a great time to fish, alone, or with a fellow angler.
— rPs 05 31 2019
Fishes: Subject and Verb
Fishes: Subject and Verb . . .
The early season evening hatch has been high water.
(04 21 2019)
April opens the trout season in the American northeast with all its attending opportunity for other fishes.
The salt may remain sleepy, somewhat, as creeks and rivers, ponds and lakes, together offer some of the broadest, and best, steady chances for a day of grand slam combinations of fishes.
The still waters, cold, bottom blooming back to life, offer the angler:
Bluegill
Bluegill
(NYC 04 29 2019)
Black Crappie
Black Crappie
(NYC 04 2019)
Golden Shiner
Golden Shiner
(NYC 04 2019)
Largemouth Bass
Largemouth Bass
(NYC 04 29 2019)
The freestones, tinted by spring rain runoff, flow higher, fish deeper:
Redbreast Sunfish
Smallmouth Bass
Trout
Brown Trout
(04 22 2019)
Diversity rules, rich and simple.
April fishes, subject and verb.
— rPs 04 30 2019
Earth Day 49
Earth Day 49 . . .
The author of Philadelphia on the Fly celebrates Earth Day “by the book” . . .
(Planet Earth 04 22 2019)
Earth Day has reached the cusp of a human’s middle age. The planet remains older, larger, and more important than all of us people put together. Let us try, at least try, to be stewards and gardeners and protectors rather than mere users of our one and only green, white, and blue home.
— rPs 04 22 2019
See Bass?
See Bass? . . .
Line on the Water
(NJ 04 2019)
Tenkara rod yamame tethered to a small sparkled shrimp kebari found no willing herring or striper schoolie to tempt. The floating 8-weight line on a reel reached farther into the solunar peak and still found no takers, no curious passes from bass in the deeper water where the current’s piled sand flat dropped off into dark gray.
Water calm, a pass of squall coal gray cloud and on wind holding a spatter of rain. Calm times felt in a zone, fishy, and at that when came the yank, a strong physical stop below the surface. Hot Tail Half and Half, my own fly from a box full of talented friend’s, fooled a fish, too.
One hand managed one shot on the phone fly from the battle middle when eyes saw a dark form sprinting from a puff of sand in two feet of estuary water. See bass, see not a bass, but an early fluke, a fine one flipped off with a smile as flatfish fled.
Sand Trail of a Fluke in Flight
(NJ 04 2019)
Water too cold at 47 degrees Fahrenheit ( 8 Celcius) for the striped bass where I have been to fish The search continues. The season is early.
Fishing is not catching, yet, in or out of net, there is always a view.
(NJ 04 2019)
The saltwater season of 2019 has begun.
— rPs 04 17 2019
Happy (7th) Anniversary
Happy (7th) Anniversary . . .
Ebisu tenkara rod tipped by an Olive Woolly Bugger tied by Urban Angler’s Dennis Feliciano.
(NYC 04 2019)
The best way to celebrate seven (7!) continuous years of tenkara in Manhattan was to fish, photograph, and write all about it.
April, still mostly cold and gray, offers the local season’s most consistent angling for black crappie and the golden shiner, Notemigonus crysoleucas, a hard hitting, fast sprinting fish that in almost every way resembles its European cousin, the Rudd.
My first, and favorite, TUSA Ebisu rod retains it’s fine 5/5 action and good luck. A few overcast afternoon hours spent along the banks of Central Park’s ponds produced the two key species of the season:
Black Crappie
Black Crappie
(NYC 04 2019)
Golden Shiner
Golden Shiner
(NYC 04 2019)
Tenkara continues to take Manhattan seven years on, and counting.
Happy Anniversary, TTM . . .
— rPs 04 09 2019
Postscript: Revisit the first post of TTM by following this link: https://tenkaratakesmanhattan.com/2012/04/09/hello-world/
