Who's fishing this weekend ?

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by steplift20

I keep my boat in my driveway but I use the Atlantic highlands ramp
There is no name on my boat but it's the best one there of course lol

Of course.

I used to use the Highlands ramp. Nice wide, shallow entry. Great ramp. I also used to use the Leonardo State marina ramp. Only 2 truck wide, short steep entry and easy to put the wheels off the end.

Now I use the free ramp in Laurel Hill park in Secaucus, NJ.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...20new%20jersey
Launch into the Hackensack, 21 mile boat ride downriver to the Hudson River, under the Varrazzano-narrows bridge and out into Sandy hook bay. I get there in less time than trailering to either Highlands or Leonardo, and although I use more gas, I don't pay GSP tolls or launch fees. I figure it's a wash. But it's way less time, with no weekend traffic to buck on the way there or back. Once I'm launched it's a nice half hour boat ride, compared with an hour and a half drive on a Sunday afternoon going back home.

Oh, and did I mention that the trip upriver on the way home is a great freshwater washout for my engine? Maybe not as pure as tap water, but way better than the saltwater that I left behind. I still put it on the muffs when I get home, but there's never a time when the engine dries out with salt inside her. :)

[Striper80]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Of course.

I used to use the Highlands ramp. Nice wide, shallow entry. Great ramp. I also used to use the Leonardo State marina ramp. Only 2 truck wide, short steep entry and easy to put the wheels off the end.

Now I use the free ramp in Laurel Hill park in Secaucus, NJ.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...20new%20jersey
Launch into the Hackensack, 21 mile boat ride downriver to the Hudson River, under the Varrazzano-narrows bridge and out into Sandy hook bay. I get there in less time than trailering to either Highlands or Leonardo, and although I use more gas, I don't pay GSP tolls or launch fees. I figure it's a wash. But it's way less time, with no weekend traffic to buck on the way there or back. Once I'm launched it's a nice half hour boat ride, compared with an hour and a half drive on a Sunday afternoon going back home.

Oh, and did I mention that the trip upriver on the way home is a great freshwater washout for my engine? Maybe not as pure as tap water, but way better than the saltwater that I left behind. I still put it on the muffs when I get home, but there's never a time when the engine dries out with salt inside her. :)

My first trip with my V 18 was from there. It's not a bad trip down the river to the bay at all. You just have to make sure you have your NY saltwater registry card as well as your NJ card. There's a decent fall Striper bite not too far from the launch ramp as well.

[step up here]

If the weatherman is correct you will need more than a V-20 this weekend!

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by step up here

If the weatherman is correct you will need more than a V-20 this weekend!

Yep. If I go out I plan on staying in the river. Plenty of fish in it if you know where to look. I wouldn't keep/eat anything that comes out of it, but it's great fishing for Stripers.
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[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by Striper80

My first trip with my V 18 was from there. It's not a bad trip down the river to the bay at all. You just have to make sure you have your NY saltwater registry card as well as your NJ card. There's a decent fall Striper bite not too far from the launch ramp as well.

I don't have a NY Saltwater card. Since I launch and land in NJ I'm only subject to New Jersey laws (as far as I know). I've always been taught that the two states have reciprocity arraignments Now I'm going to have to do some investigating on NY laws also. <groan> Thanks for the heads up.

[Striper80]

https://decals.dec.ny.gov/DECALSCiti...itizenhome.htm
This is the NY site.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

I don't have a NY Saltwater card. Since I launch and land in NJ I'm only subject to New Jersey laws (as far as I know). I've always been taught that the two states have reciprocity arraignments Now I'm going to have to do some investigating on NY laws also. <groan> Thanks for the heads up.

Pretty sure if you're fishing in another states state waters, you have to have a license to fish there. Federal waters honor reciprocity agreements, but state waters normally do not.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

Pretty sure if you're fishing in another states state waters, you have to have a license to fish there. Federal waters honor reciprocity agreements, but state waters normally do not.

You are correct, for freshwater lakes and the ilk. But in cases like this one, where the border between NY and NJ is a tidal river (Hudson), I think it's always been held that it's where you launch from that dictates whose license you need. And in all cases, don't forget that we're talking about the Federally mandated Saltwater license, not a state license. So I think that as long as you have one it covers all areas. For instance, how do you know (if you're in the Gulf of Mexico for instance), whose state waters you're actually fishing in? That can change in an instant as you drift from one State boundary to another's. It would be ludicrous to have to require a sport recreational fisherman to acquire Saltwater licenses from each of the states that border the Gulf. Not talking commercial fishermen here. They live under a different set of rules.

[Destroyer]

Okay, from the NY State site, the following is their law:

"License requirements:

Depending on the specific location of the Hudson River fishing activities, and/or the specific species fished for, an angler may need to have a recreational marine fishing registry (Salt water) license, a fishing license or both :

If you are fishing downstream from the Tappan Zee Bridge, you are considered fishing in the marine and coastal district and will need to enroll in the recreational marine fishing registry."

Since I am already enrolled in the Recreational Marine Fishing Registry through my New Jersey Salt Water registration I have met all the requirements and do not need to obtain a separate NY license. The Verrazzano Bridge and Sandy Hook are well below the Tappan Zee Bridge and are considered a marine and coastal area.

[phatdaddy]

in the gulf, doesn't matter where you launch from or live, its the water in which you are fishing. state waters extend out 9 miles from shore. if they check , you need a state issued license from whose water your in. with modern gps technology, they can tell you where u are.

there is no federal recreational sw license. some migratory fish require federal permits, but not ones fished for usually.