Eventually the younger fisherman spotted their net, entangled were flounder, pike-perch, bream and one very large carp, all tossed into the bottom of the boat, flapping and gasping.
His 32-foot Regulator fishing boat was one among 40 others of its ilk being tossed about mercilessly in the crisscrossed waves of the hyperactive New York Harbor on this pleasant Friday in the spring.