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Throgs Neck Bridge NY Area Fishing Information

During the middle of April steady reports of bass catches begin to filter in for western Sound areas in and around the Throgs Neck Bridge, City Island, Pelham Bay Park, Orchard Beach, Rye, Fort Totten and two perennial spring hot spots: Turtle Cove (Bronx) and Little Neck Bay (Queens). During this time sand worms can be deadly as food is just beginning to show up due to rising temperatures will warm before deeper areas. The many piers and access points in these areas provide excellent fishing for weakfish, bass and blues. Of course the charters and party boats will get you to the living room of Blackfish, flounder and fluke and moving schools of bass and blues.

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Fishing Calendar

Depending on the time of year most Party Boats will fish for the following species:
  • April - May: Winter Flounder, Fluke, Weakfish, Black Fish and Striped Bass
  • June - September: Fluke, Bluefish, Striped Bass, Black Fish, Porgies, Sea Bass
  • October-December: Fluke, Blue Fish, Striped Bass, False Albacore and Black Fish
Many Charter Boats will fish for the same species as the Party Boats and will also fish offshore for Sharks from June - September and Tuna during August through early October.

Some Fishing Tips

  • Surf Fishing is good along all the local beaches especially around jetties.
  • Bluefish are fished all over the sound and will chase bunker up any river. Diving birds are a sure sign there are Bluefish in the area. When on the surface throwing surface poppers can’t be beat for excitement! The most popular way to fish for Blues is to anchor your boat chum with ground bunker to attract the fish while dropping back cut bunker. Make sure to use a heavy mono or wire leader since these fish a sharp teeth that will make short order of 10 - 15 lb mono. Night time is great for Bluefish as well.
  • Blackfish is best done by a charter or party boat since you need knowledge and experience to locate and fish wrecks and rock piles. If you’re not in the rocks or on a wreck you’re not going to catch.
  • Fluke fishing is excellent around the Spring Lake Hotel to the south and Elberon and Deal to the north. Drifting a combination of a strip of squid and a kellie is the most popular way to fish.
  • Flounder fishing is best in the April and May time frame. Chumming is a necessity to improve your chances of catching a good number of fish. Anchoring is the usual fare dropping down either blood or sandworms. The bay and the river are popular spots but the bay is very shallow and is limiting during low tide.
  • Striped Bass can be caught by using live bait - primarily bunker or river herring and eels are deadly at night and low light conditions. The world record Striper fell for a big free drifting eel with a 3/0 hook at night.
  • Porgies and Sea Bass are bottom feeders usually willing to eat any kind of squid and clam bits offered. A 1/0 hook and a 1 to 2 ounce bank sinker rigged with a three way swivel could put some tasty fillets on the table for many. Porgies are right up there with Black fish as one of the tastiest fish in the sea!
  • Bonita and False Albacore are in the tuna family and are incredible fighters! Bonita are great table fare but False Albacore are NOT! Incredible on the fly rod!!!!
    Please be responsible and only keep what you
    intend to eat and practice catch and release!
  • Party Boating - Make sure to arrive early and get a good spot on the boat. You want to stay near the bow or the stern this way you can fish comfortably regardless of the direction the boat is drifting.
  • Charter Boats - Book trips early and make sure you have a species in mind and have a back up spices in case the fish don't cooperate. Make sure and discuss it with the captain so they are prepared and are in agreement. In the case of fishing for Tuna, make sure you are aware of the captains rules as far as keeping fish. Some boats, especially when giant Tuna fishing, will keep most of what their charters catch.
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John McNamara, who died Friday at age 91,was an amateur historian whose great obsession of documenting every street and place-name in the Bronx culminated in a 600-page historical guide to the borough, 'History in Asphalt.'

Starting at age 10, McNamara walked every single street in the Bronx, paddled each of its waterways by canoe and kayak, and devoted countless hours in the archives documenting street names and how they changed over the years. 'I can tell you that it's comprehensive,' said Lloyd Ultan, the official Bronx borough historian, who helped McNamara edit down drawers full of index cards into the finished product. The book was published in 1978 by the Bronx County Historical Society, and is now in its third edition, reflecting many changes to street names in the interim.

McNamara was born on East 156th Street in the Melrose section of the Bronx. His family also had a small bungalow at Edgewater, a small community near Throggs Neck, meaning that he had roots in two sections of the borough.

In 'History in Asphalt,' McNamara traced Throggs Neck to John Throckmorton, who founded a small, brief-lived Anabaptist colony there in 1642. 'Neck' means a narrow peninsula, and McNamara documented its succession of names: 'Throgmorton's Neck,' 'Frockes Neck,' and even 'Frog's Neck,' which is what George Washington called it in a journal entry from 1776, the same year the British Redcoats ran Washington out of New York in the first major battle of the Revolutionary War.

McNamara said he became interested in Indian history as a child, when he and his brother were portaging their canoe near Fort Schuyler. McNamara said he was fascinated to learn from the local lighthouse keeper that Siwanoy Indians used to portage their canoes over the same path. As street signs started going up in the early 1920s, Mc-Namara began keeping meticulous notes on place names.

McNamara dropped out of James Monroe High School and during the Depression years of the early 1930s began what would be a lifetime of rambling, riding the rails in empty boxcars. Eventually he would visit every state in the Union excepting Oklahoma.' He always wondered how he missed it,' said Bill Twomey, a longtime friend who co wrote two books about Throgg's Neck history with McNamara.

In Yuma, Ariz., McNamara took time out from traveling to publish a kind of hobo's journal titled 'Sand Dune.'

Back in New York, McNamara found employment with the New York City Housing Authority, where he spent his career as a supervisor in the clerical production department.

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He was a founding member of the Bronx County Historical Society, and beginning in 1956, McNamara wrote a weekly column titled 'The Bronx and History' for the Bronx Press-Review. In the early 1990s, he switched to a biweekly format in the Bronx Times Reporter. A selection of his columns was published as 'McNamara's Old Bronx.'

He continued his place-name research between trips to increasingly exotic spots - the Australian outback, Pago Pago, and a trek in the Alps. Having taught himself Dutch in order to read early New Amsterdam government documents, he found himself able to get by in Afrikaans when he visited South Africa.

In addition to traveling the streets and waters of the Bronx, McNamara claimed to be the first person ever to have bicycled over the Throgs Neck Bridge - in January 1961, before the bridge officially opened. He noted in his newspaper column that the coming of the bridge was accompanied by a new spelling of 'Throgs Neck' - the doubled g being removed for convenience on signage, but often retained in older place names. (Wags have it that the city compensated for the lost g with an additional r when it opened the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964. But that was in Brooklyn, outside of McNamara's purview.)

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McNamara led walking tours and was in demand as a lecturer on Bronx history. He retired for a few years to Florida, but the lure of the Bronx was too strong for him, and he moved back.

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In 1985, Mayor Koch named a small triangle of land in Throgs Neck after him, in honor of 'History in Asphalt.' McNamara duly added his own name to the history of Bronx place names, updated for the third edition.

John McNamara

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Born December 22, 1912, in the Bronx; died October 15 at the Throgs Neck Extended Care Nursing Home; survived by his children, John Jr. and Betty, three granddaughters, and two great-grandsons.