Personal Watercraft Insurance, On Rockaway Reef, Taking Dinner to Go, on the Point of a Spear
New York’s waters are a magnet for fishermen, who gather on piers or go out on party boats and, with a camaraderie fueled by beer and cigarettes, wait expectantly for a tug on the line. But the men aboard the Spearboat disdain the rod and reel, preferring to prowl 40 feet beneath the water’s surface, using their own lungs and rubber-band-powered spear guns. Eschewing the traditional rod and reel, spear fishermen dive about 40 feet under brown-green water to capture bass, porgies and triggerfish.
