# 55677: Subject: Hutcheson River, New York

Submitted by . (ip 207.237.57.209)

• Fished on 9/20/2006
• Report received: 9/23/2006

Water Temperature: warm
Water Clarity: Pea Soup
Seas: Dead Calm
Weather: Warm and humid, 1:00 pm. 80 at least. Hazy no breeze to speak of
Fishing_for: baby blues
Boat: Shore Fishing
captain: CAptain Microphone

Report:
Thursday 9/21 The day was a warm still day with humid sun on and off I fished the Hutcheson River in Mount Vernon.

The Hutcheson river is navigable from it’s mouth in Eastchester Bay up to about the Sanford Avenue exit of the Hutcheson River Parkway. Further upstream the river is quite small and quite fresh and there is a small lake where the river gets wide at Wilson Woods Park, Mount Vernon.

I tried to gain access to the river right at the Bronx County line under the Boston Post Road bridge. On the Westchester side of the bridge there are 2 scrap yards right on the water. I went down under the bridge, outside one scrap yard there was a man and woman working out of their pick up stripping the copper wire out of lighting fixtures.

I asked if they knew of any fishing down there. No … but I did try to see if I could get to the water.

Under the tall bridge the shore was held back by bulkhead on both sides. The water was green like the Hudson. I think all salt to ¾ tidal backwater. The water was moving downstream at 3 to 5 MPH, I could not get to the water without doing some obvious trespassing. Also the wire strippers might have eyes for the copper in my car. So I headed upstream to the next place where I could get access. This is tough urban shore fishing.

Always in view is the big up and over the river pipeworks behind Modell’s…this place is on the edge of Westchester and the Bronx. I stopped on South Fulton Ave between Edison Avenue and Secor Lane. There is a little bridge.

I have is some thawed squid. I will stop for a short while. So I chum my squid tentacles as I tie on a freshwater size hook. I am on the bridge and I drop my line with the current, it goes under the bridge. The river banks are all concrete around here. I think I will catch nothing, I chum some more eyeballs and check my bait (a wing). Then I changed my bait and fished a while more.

Nothing. Then I wrap it up and go back to work in a sort of warehouse…It was a good day.

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