Urban Fishing
Versus has done it again. I wrote earlier about a new fishing show on Versus that was different from so many other fishing shows. City Limits is another break from the norm.
While I am not a huge Mike Iaconeli fan, I do like his new show. City Limits puts Mike and a local angler on urban waters and challenges them to catch a limit of bass each in 6 hours. The challenge is just for fun and to prove that fishing opportunities are often overlooked in the urban landscape. We all have done it. Driven by a body of water for years without ever seriously considering fishing it because it was in the city limits of some large city, at the end of an airport runway or flanked with concrete for miles in each direction. This show goes out and proves that bass can be caught in downtown Chicago or Washington DC.
While Living in Seattle I spent hours sitting in traffic on the bridges that cross Lake Washington. Although you see tons of pleasure boaters, you rarely saw fishermen on this large lake that separates Seattle form its east side suburbs. Fishermen were only seen for the most part during the two or three day Sockeye salmon season. That is if the Fish and Game allowed a season. Salmon is king in the pacific Northwest and you hear little or nothing about the warmer water species of fish. That is until I was talking with a dive team that was doing underwater surveys for the fish and game. They were video taping the Smallmouth in the lake and recording how many juvenile salmon they would eat in a given time period. Apparently there was concern that those pesky smallmouth might be affecting the salmon runs. Turns out 3 and 4 pound smallies are all over in the lake but they get little or no pressure. I went out several times after that and was able to catch a few of these wonderful fish.
I later discovered the lake was also loaded with jumbo perch. I brought several dozen fillets to a backyard BBQ one day to fry up and share with my friends. Every one was amazed that I had caught and kept fish from the lake. Once they were fried up though they disappeared quickly.
Get out on your local body of water. Even if it is right in the city. It may hold plenty of fish and you don't have to burn up all that gas in your truck driving to some remote lake.
While I am not a huge Mike Iaconeli fan, I do like his new show. City Limits puts Mike and a local angler on urban waters and challenges them to catch a limit of bass each in 6 hours. The challenge is just for fun and to prove that fishing opportunities are often overlooked in the urban landscape. We all have done it. Driven by a body of water for years without ever seriously considering fishing it because it was in the city limits of some large city, at the end of an airport runway or flanked with concrete for miles in each direction. This show goes out and proves that bass can be caught in downtown Chicago or Washington DC.
While Living in Seattle I spent hours sitting in traffic on the bridges that cross Lake Washington. Although you see tons of pleasure boaters, you rarely saw fishermen on this large lake that separates Seattle form its east side suburbs. Fishermen were only seen for the most part during the two or three day Sockeye salmon season. That is if the Fish and Game allowed a season. Salmon is king in the pacific Northwest and you hear little or nothing about the warmer water species of fish. That is until I was talking with a dive team that was doing underwater surveys for the fish and game. They were video taping the Smallmouth in the lake and recording how many juvenile salmon they would eat in a given time period. Apparently there was concern that those pesky smallmouth might be affecting the salmon runs. Turns out 3 and 4 pound smallies are all over in the lake but they get little or no pressure. I went out several times after that and was able to catch a few of these wonderful fish.
I later discovered the lake was also loaded with jumbo perch. I brought several dozen fillets to a backyard BBQ one day to fry up and share with my friends. Every one was amazed that I had caught and kept fish from the lake. Once they were fried up though they disappeared quickly.
Get out on your local body of water. Even if it is right in the city. It may hold plenty of fish and you don't have to burn up all that gas in your truck driving to some remote lake.
The concept of the show is cool, but I am not a fan of how its edited and put together. Ike is a cartoon of himself these days
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