If you can spare a few extra days, fish your way between your north and south ports of call. It’ll make the trip more enjoyable and can even save you fuel.
By Kurt Von Seekamm Jr.
The wind, the rain, to me it’s all the same … I thank the Lord above every time I can, I get to be a fisherman
— Casey Ashley, “Fisherman”
As a fisherman, the time you spend taking your boat from Florida (or if you’re really lucky, someplace farther south) to the northern waters is probably the most underutilized time you will spend on your boat.
If you are like me, you’ve probably spent these trips at cruise, traveling in straight lines between ports or following carefully plotted routes down the Intracoastal Waterway when the weather didn’t allow for ocean-bound travel.
For the avid fisherman, however, it doesn’t have to be that way. If you plan your trip right, there is literally an entire coast to fish and the potential to save on fuel because you are fishing. How often do you get to say that?
I’ve been fortunate enough to travel between Cape May, New Jersey and Stuart, Florida more than a dozen times but it wasn’t until the past two years that I decided to slow down and fish between the two. Having done so, I never want simply run the boat up or down the coast ever again. The amount of sea life along the coast is mind-boggling. Here’s how we did
