How Far Do you Drive to Fish?
 

I already drive about 45 minutes to get to Westernmost areas of LI but Montauk -well that would be quite far!
I may move next year another few minutes North and it will be further from the fishing grounds.

It will make me feel much better if I know there are lots of you out there that travel distances frequently to do what you love. :)

Drive 20-30 minutes in spring and fall, and about 10-15 minutes during the summer

I make the trek to the outer Cape (3.5 hours) just about every weekend from mid May to mid October. Then I drive to SoCo (2 hours) until late November. There are some spots in the Norwich area I fish in April and May, but that only takes me one hour.

1 average about 320 t0 360 miles each way to fish the salt usually the Cape or LI. this year i get close to 70 full days in

2 1/2 hours to South County. 375 miles to the Adirondacks for my annual freshwater fix... Nothing like a smallie on a little home made popper :-)

usually one hr. one way, but more if i'm fishing westerly or the cape.....

Cape: 1 Hour 45 minutes
RI: Narragansett: 1 hour 20 minutes
Watch Hill: 1 hour 45 minutes

This is all average time driving well over the speed limit (life is too short to waste time traveling ) and times don't include unforeseen traffic jams.

I usually go back and forth every night. Back of the truck smells so bad lately that it is tough to sleep in.

I support the war cause by using so much gas.

-Cape 1 hour 10 minutes from Boston (Have a second house down there so once I am there the fishing in close by)

-Just did a SoCo trip exactly 1 hour 20 minutes each way yesterday (Narragansett area) from Boston.

-Boston and various south shore spots during the summer all w/in 10-30 minutes during the work week.:rolleyes:

about 5-20 minutes...on average 10 min.:)

Thirty minutes to an hour depending on where I'm fishing

I drive till I hit the ocean.....:rolleyes:....more to the point I drive 1 1/2 - 2 hours usually to fish the Cape and 30 minutes to fish local salt.;)

about 10 min's....to splash time......took longer to get there then it did to catch the fish.

Given the far distances travelled, is the most popular lodging:
sleeping in the car, getting a room for the weekend or just fish a few hours and go back home?

I've tried them all. Thank goodness for caffeine for those trips back!

Sleepingbag in back of truck, priced right. P.M.

Hour and a half to either the cape or rhodie. When it comes to lodging, its my cramped ranger, cant quite afford to stay in a motel once a weeik, the trips cost enough as it is. IF its real nice out i will crash on the rocks for a little while, i just keep the eels sack 10 feet or so away in case a skunk or coon gets curious, the truck smells bad enough as it is without fresh skunk funk in the cab.

120-150 miles round trip in ri 4-5 nights a week.
more if cape

I camp or sleep in the jeep. Every once in a while I drive home. But usually I get a few zzs.

On average 3 hours. Sometimes more....

20 minutes to Plum Island
40 Minutes to Glosta (2-3 times a Week in July/August)
1 hour and 1/2 to The Canal

Will be trying RI and father down the Cape in the Future

anywhere form 5 minutes in the spring for the CT river to 2 hours for SoCo RI to 3.5 hours for the outter cape. sucks living in western mass. still logged 100+ trips this year. gas companies love me.... :smash:

30 Minutes to So. County
1.5 hours to Canal

it depends where Im fishing
ct 15 min to 1 hr
Ri 1 to 1.5 hrs
canal 2.25 hrs
outer beaches 3.5 hrs
Li 2 west end to 5 hrs east end ( 3 with ferry )

I can get to a handful of locations in about 15 minutes... (from my door to wetting a line).

SoCo is about 45-55 minutes

I envy those that travel only 15 minutes. It would be great if I could move to LI in a few years but by then the median house will probably cost about $1 Million. So much for the middle class guy! :(

2 seconds for sweetwater (can walk out my back door and almost cast in the water - pawcatuck river)
anywhere from 10 - 45 minutes depending on traffic and where in RI I plan to fish.

same as bart..I definitely am going to move closer to the water..I envy you guys who live 10 minutes..

Naragansett = 2 hrs.
Cape = 2.25 hrs.

I just started driving far late summer been busy in my place in early summer which includes:

2 mins - Riverside
7 mins - Hanes
20 mins - Bristol / Warren / Barrington.

But no luck with 20lbs.:af: :o

Hmmmm....wading in the cove takes me bout 30 seconds 35 seconds if a car goes by...the canal about 1hr if I drive the speed limit-usually not..and then add on more to get to the cape sands..Rhody-gonna have to wait till I drive down there to fish with a few guys....wink,wink,hint,hint..:hihi:
and I have no problem sackin out for a few in the 4runner, better than takin a chance fallin asleep on the road...

jbapinoy
How could it possibly take you 2 hours to get from Riverside to 'Gansett? On bike?

For me,
closest spot, 10 mins.
favorite spot, 25 mins.
farthest spot, 40 mins.

next sping I will have my boat on a slip in wickford, 10 mins from my house, so that will probably change everything.

-Zac

You're welcome to go with me anytime.:btu:

Thanx Dave...gonna take you up on it too, figured you'd offer but I still wanted to throw it out there :hihi:...

I live in Central Mass. 1 hour and 20 min to Canal. 1.5 to Maine About an hour and 20 to SOCO. Gets tuff working all day and fishing all night then drive more than an hour home. Gotta love redbull.

zac's do you use bike? It's 2 hours 2way, I use to be a member of a roadbike cycling group in my country I can do that but ....Daaahhhh .:smash: :smash:

about one minute to the beach by my house..
1 hr to M
30mins to south shore
30 mins to orient...
I love living here!!!!!!

Canal - 30 minutes

Chatham/Outer Cape - 1.5-2 hours

So Shore MA - 30-45 minutes

SoCounty (new this year for me) - 2 hours

5 from the shop :D

210 miles to Maine or PI, 225 to Salmon River, 1/2 mile to Otter Creek.
Where I sleep all depends but usually it's alone = truck but mostly naps cause I can't sleep well in the light.
Pete

Umm, anywhere from 2min to 45min (gansett, Newport, Watch Hill) generally somewhere in between....
B

Central Ma carpool to the canal?
 

Takes about 1hr and 20 minutes from Sterling. Used to go twice every weekend down to the canal for the red eye express but now I'm lucky to go twice a month. Can't do the drive + fish out on the rocks for 4 hours or more all in the same night anymore.

Five min in any direction (North East South) but west means i'll have to take a plane. It's great May till October - But this November nuttin' but dreams.