Project Healing Waters Bronx River trip

MISSION STATEMENT

Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc. is dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and disabled veterans through fly fishing and associated activities including education and outings.

501c3 Information

Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing (PHWFF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the State of Maryland. PHWFF is dependent on tax-deductible, charitable donations and the help of numerous volunteers to meet the educational, equipment, transportation, and related needs of its participants.

Recently, I took a few veterans fly fishing to one of the rivers I fish.  The Bronx River is New York City's only fresh water river.  It has been given a new life since the county of Westchester no longer
dumps raw sewage into it.  As a result of stopping the dumping of waste the river's water has steadily improved.  Largemouth bass, carp and other panfish offer good fly fishing opportunities from Valhalla all the way down to where the Bronx River and The East River merge.

In fact, just below where the river becomes tidal, in The Bronx, fishers can also pursue
stripe bass and, blue fish.

Unfortunately, The day of our trip to the river it rained heavily in the morning.  When we arrived in the afternoon,The Bronx River was a muddy brown.  Normally, this river offers sight fishing and even wading  where the river bottom permits.

I hope to be able to take more veterans to the local waters where I fish this fall.