Admittedly, “trout fishing” is not the phrase that
springs to mind when I think of Garfield, a city on the western edge of Bergen
County, NJ, with a gritty industrial past that has left a residue in the form
of chromium water contamination from a spill at its E.C. Electroplating
Corporation site.
But in driving past a few years ago, I noticed how
the area along the Passaic River had been cleaned up (something I discussed in this prior post). And, from working in
the city more than a quarter century ago, I recalled a park a few blocks away.
The 10-acre Dahnert's Lake County Park, along Midland Avenue, is stocked with trout beginning the
second week of April. I took this photograph of one optimistic fisherman there
a week ago.
The park in question would be Dahnert's Lake County Park, in Garfield, on the western edge of
Bergen County, NJ. I took this photo in mid-April. (See this prior post of mine.) I would imagine that even more people are
thronging the park these days.
