Golf Digest You can read between the lines here too, but the sharks aren't bull. How 'bout that National Golf Course?
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Bedminster Pond by Bike
Bedminster Pond, August 2017
(He wanted to drain the swamp.)
And the open water--as stated in my August 2017 blog post "Lush Closure on Famous Bedminster Pond"--is an illusion. Only some 15 feet of it exist there, inches deep.
Different thought-levels for different folks.
But I was especially moved to write the present post out of a feeling of deep affinity for that pond. Recently, you've probably read a lot of my words about the closure of parking there, making fishing the pond just after sundown all but impossible. It can be done with a bicycle. The Bedminster Hike & Bike Trail.
We're all aware of love for places, and the many ways such love is lost, though we do fight back when they're taken from us. I wrote an angry "Letter to the Editor," Bernardsville News. And various blog posts.
Interestingly, it was the year before, March, when--having finished a fishing stint there--it came over me as I walked to my car that I might be done fishing the pond. That was before I knew anything about parking closures coming.
But I was ahead of the game in the 2017 blog post, too, and I'll leave you a link to it. (The first half or so is difficult to read.) Especially read the second half between the lines. The post ends on the word "closure."
River Bass
The One
Have been very busy since 2017. The trout book is pretty much done. So now I need a website with a domain I own. Build that myself. Have been published recently in Tail fly fishing magazine, The Drake, and The New Jersey Monthly. Even more importantly, I'm always getting published in The Fisherman. And New Jersey Federated Sportsmen's News finally has a new editor. I've already sent him an article. There you can find some of the best from anywhere in the world.