For her OnlyFins column, the journalist Esther Wang has entered New York’s only freshwater-fishing tournament, talked to fishermen hauled into court by the state, and researched the surprising local political significance of striped bass.
. “They’re not, you know, the most-read stories,” Wang said, of her fishing pieces. “The nice thing about Hell Gate is that we don’t need to care about all of the things that all of us have been taught to care about as journalists, especially at digital news sites: page views, ‘uniques,’ ‘critical’ metrics like that.” The site, which is owned by its employees, has a few thousand subscribers who pay at least $6.
Good fishing spots are carefully guarded by those who fish them, whether you’re in the Catskills or below the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. When I pressed Wang for details on where she’d been fishing for striped bass in Brooklyn, she refused to tell me. Quite a number of grizzled city fishermen have taken Wang into their confidence, and in exchange she accepts the social code they expect her to follow.
Bill accompanied Wang as she moved to another fishing spot on the lake, along a walking path. “I feel bad that I haven’t even got a nibble,” she told me. She switched her lure, from the jiggly worm to a “more fishy” option, which she pulled from a tackle box in her sling pack. The sun was beginning to go down. A little girl paused to peer at Wang for a few moments before running to catch up with her parents. Couples in rented paddle boats drifted slowly through the water.
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