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Originally Posted by whiplash
I've fished the canal for over 35 years and have never had a problem . Then again I'm not a small guy. Like anywhere else you leave something laying around and somebody will snag it, go light and keep your stuff with you. Small incidents tend to get blown out of proportion on the internet. Like walking anywhere else -act like a victim and you will become one.
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Could not have said it better...
I did an internship in NY with a film production company a couple summers ago and I found a honey hole near the confluence of the East & Harlem River. Caught lots of nice fish, Bass, Blues, even a small Jack one night on the graveyard shift. The spot, however, was as shadetree as it gets, but I was there to catch fish. Lots of bums, addicts & reifer smoking bandana wearing teenagers (some pretty hot spanish girls too), but I never had a problem. I was there to fish and was left alone. In fact, a few of those kids were amazed to see that one could catch 30 inch (I know thats not big for some of you guys) stripers 100 yards from their public housing courtyards. You can't be affraid, for there is tons of structure within casting distance on the East River in some tough neighborhoods.