Ryan Joens-Poulton

Fishing on Diverting Reservoir

One of my favorite fishing memories was in 2019, when we were upstate for Mother’s Day.

We managed an early start, about 5am, with all of our supplies and a lunch from DeCiccos.

We rowed all the way north on Diverting Reservoir, up to the East Branch of the Croton River. We were out for about 5 hours, caught a range of smallmouth and largemouth bass, passed under the bridge littered with swallow nests - had the entire morning to ourselves.

In the home movie edit later that year, I scored this section with a Blaze Foley song, Moonlight. Whenever I hear this song, I think of this morning and how happy we were as friends on that boat.