Can anyone recommend a collection site?

[eric]

Can anyone recommend a good collection site, possibly queens or western long island? I can drive further out if I have to. I don't have a boat, I'm looking for a place accessable by land. If anyone wants to go with me I have plenty of room in my car. I'm located in long island city.

 

[EDDIE MTI]

hi eric.............check out beach 8 st. in rockaway....only thing this info is 30 years old.....sorry...it use to be very good....eddie

 

[JLAudio]

Can anyone recommend a good collection site, possibly queens or western long island? I can drive further out if I have to. I don't have a boat, I'm looking for a place accessable by land. If anyone wants to go with me I have plenty of room in my car. I'm located in long island city.

Hey eric im in flushing and was contemplating area around fort totten, figured their has to be som elife in those jettys

 

[NYPDFrogman]

Hey eric im in flushing and was contemplating area around fort totten, figured their has to be som elife in those jettys

best bet is the south shore

beach 8th street in rockaway
manhattan beach reef in brooklyn

foot of bay parkway in brooklyn you can do a beach entry and about 30 yards off the sea wall is a rock pile that is teaming with tropicals this time of the year

 

[e.muehlbauer]

Plumb beach in Brooklyn should be OK....in my grad school days we did collecting trips in Shinnecock...got great stuff...grunts, butterfly fish, trunk fish, bigeyes. The north shore is not that good...not as many tropicals make it there..a week after we would seine in Shinnecock we would seine in New Suffolk on the north fork, never once got an exotic or straggler. However, there have been plenty of lizard fish in the sound in recent years, so there may be some tropicals, but south shore you are almost guaranteed.

 

[eric]

Thanks guys. I was looking for a place with tidal pools so I could catch small inverts. I checked out fort totten, seems like a good spot to set a killie trap in the water but not much in the way of tidal pools or places to wade in the water except for one small beach at the very western end of the park. There seems to be a few good spots by the whitestone bridge, including a very nice park with grasses growing from the water. Unfortunately the only chance I had to go was at high tide so I couldn't do much collecting. Tomorrow I'm going to the beach on fire island, won't have a chance to do any proper collecting but I will be able to throw my killie trap in the water so I'll see if I get anything interesting.