break on through to the otherside....

[Squidnation]

We did it in transit a couple yrs ago with a buddy on a big boat. It was almost unfishable because of the weeds. Caught some nice dolphin but we were consistantly moving up the stream towards home. We never really worked an area too hard.

[Capt Lindsay]

Anyone who says the Gulf Stream is accessible for sportfishermen here in the Northeast needs to look at a Rutgers temp chart.

After the Stream rounds Hatteras, it is moving East North East and is further away from NJ ports than it is from NC ports. Take a pair of calipers and measure the distance from a NJ port to the closest edge of the stream. The closest edge is seldom closer than 250 nm +/- and that closest spot will be south not east. The last time we measured it, the closest edge of the Stream was the Point off Oregon Inlet for NJ fishermen. That is 230 nm from Beach Haven. Here is a shot from 12/31/2008.

http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/show/...6.0157.n17.jpg

Getting to the "other side" from NJ ports would take a trip of at least 300 miles each way.

[Capt. Brian Daley]

Isn't that a record longfin???

it would have been if I didnt fall a sleep and my mates cut up
the fish I was pretty pissed at the time, its a long run