I live in NY but I do most of my fishing in NJ.But I have tried out one lake in NY(Van Courtlandt park lake) .I threw a cheap,white "no name" brand spinnerbait and I caught 2 nice sized bass in only a few minutes of each other.One of them being my biggest yet,even though it popped off when I was trying to get it with the lure still in its mouth(I hopes it's still OK).And even in Roosevelt Park Lake,I threw a 5 in watermelon senko and caught a nice sized bass I didn't even know was on ! So even though they are not as good as fishing on a bass boat on a lake the size of an ocean.But it's good to try out your local ponds and lakes sometime in the future just to see how the fishing is.And I look foward to going to some more lakes in NY and NJ in the future especially in the spawn.

I think in the past, fishing in Central Park has been talked about on the NY forum.