I second NYC being the only place I have lived in the US before moving to DC.
If you manage to to beat the traffic, Long Island is a very decent fishery for striped bass, bluefish, weakfish and fluke. You can drive from Queens to Jones Beach in 40 minutes. In summertime you can actually target bonito and false albacore.
Upstate (1 hour from Manhattan or Northern Queens) has trout streams but I hear they are really hard to catch, all with very good access because most beaches are State Parks. And the back bays (Great South Bay and Jones Inlet) seem a great place to fish on the fly.
Jamaica Bay is within City limits, and can very productive.
Breezy Point is also a great spot, but it got really whacked by Sandy.
The norther shore of Queens (College point and Little Neck Bay) are extremely productive in the early spring for large stripers (seen many people flyfishing there)
Less than 3 hours away is Montauk, Surfcasting Capital of the World, but I have seen many people flyfishing for stripers in the fall.
Gotham Fish Tales is a movie about Urban Fishing in NYC (don't get grossed out by the Gowanus Canal)
one of the best "local" forum is on www.noreaster.com, there is also a fly section.
NYC (Queens) is a great place to live (for one year), especially if you don't have kids.
You can find cheap-ish rent, 24-hour subway, the greates food in the east coast and salaries are probably a bit higher. Not a year-round place, but you can still catch huge striped bass in December.
On the other end, lots of cranky people, parking is not fun, car insurance is twice as much as DC, and a bit of a stressful city.
Good Luck.
On Friday, December 14, 2012 6:54:47 AM UTC-8, johnfarr wrote:
--I'm going to throw NYC in the mix. Excellent trout fishing an hour north of the city in the streams of the Croton watershed, short drive away to the Farmington/Housatonic, not far from the Catskills/Adirondacks/PA spring creeks, very good saltwater fishing in the waters surrounding NYC itself plus Long Island and elsewhere. It's not very good from a "do some fishing after work" perspective (unless you live in certain places) but you have a great deal of variety for day/half-day/weekend trips.
http://www.tpfr.org
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