[cometport]

I just read a fishing report here, where the poster commented on all the
anchored boats in the Inlet. That poster's complaint is valid. The
annoying tactic that some boaters employ of anchoring in Moriches Inlet
is not only inconsiderate, it's dangerous. To anchor in a navigating
channel, which is basically what Moriches Inlet is, creates a hazard
for everyone.

 

[hardcore]

i highly doubt that this would fly in any other inlet. it really is a pain. it wouldn t be so bad if it were just one or two guys but it gets rediculous in there. and they anchor all over the place, i don t think that they realize that at times moriches isn t that easy to go through.

 

[treypescatorie]

Drifting for bass.

I used to drift the inlet for bass and do pretty good. Now with all the anchored boats that game is over.

 

[canyonfvr]

Isnt Moriches inlet considered an unnaviatable inlet?

 

[baywatch]

canyonfvr wrote:
Isnt Moriches inlet considered an unnaviatable inlet?

NO...used to be until they bouyed the cuts. After flight 800 went down the navy and CG used that inlet for extensive recovery...only after that incident it was marked.

 

[canyonfvr]

baywatch wrote:
canyonfvr wrote:
Isnt Moriches inlet considered an unnaviatable inlet?

NO...used to be until they bouyed the cuts. After flight 800 went down the navy and CG used that inlet for extensive recovery...only after that incident it was marked.

I know the cuts are marked but the inlet is not there isnt a safe way in or out of the inlet marked.once you pass the east/west markers your on your own through the INLET it self.

 

[chinacat]

YES

canyonfvr wrote:
Isnt Moriches inlet considered an unnaviatable inlet?

But that still doesn't excuse all the people that anchor there without giving a rats a** about anybody else. It's a hazard either way.

It's gotten to the point that its comical. When I head west to fish my father in Moriches a few times a year I'm amazed at how many people are doing it.

 

[baywatch]

If it's un-navigable then how do so many, recs, charters and the Rosie get to use/fish it without insurance worries for there boats and there clients/passangers?

Simply put if a any boat goes down in what is considered a posted hazard it could (IMHO) cancel your insurance for the boat and liability. That used to be the law prior to flight 800. I would check a chart and see what it cautions on some of the foot notes.

I would think that this would also void any insurance on any recreational boaters as well for an incedent/accident in the inlet.

The anchoring topic was still a boiling point for some even when I still lived up there...looks like things haven't changed.

Is this anchoring at night?

This post edited by baywatch 09:39 PM 06/01/2008

 

[MACKS]

The boats that stay off to the east side on the rip don't bother me that much except that it prevents me from driftin across one of the best spots in the inlet,the problem I have is with the ones right in the middle of the inlet,and every week there are more and more guys dropping a hook in the middle sometimes two or three next to each other,so you have boats comeing out boats comeing in and boats drifting and boats at anchor,it's a nut house to say the least.I have also seen them do it at night,some right at the mouth of the inlet at the ocean side on an outgoing tide with everone else drifting,I pretty much gave up on fishing inside the inlet it's just not worth it.

 

[Fishbust]

anchor.

You are not supposed to anchor in any channel at all. The Inlet is not a parking lot. Anchoring a boat in a channel is like parking your car on the Expressway. Idiots. Take a boating course.

When I catch a rode, I get the knife out. Everyone else should do the same.

This post edited by Fishbust 11:42 PM 06/01/2008

 

[baywatch]

Fishbust wrote:
You are not supposed to anchor in any channel at all. The Inlet is not a parking lot. Anchoring a boat in a channel is like parking your car on the Expressway. Idiots. Take a boating course.

When I catch a rode, I get the knife out. Everyone else should do the same.

I could see anchoring up on the backside of the inlet right off the sand bars on an outgoing during the daylight hours.

Few years back I fished that at night drifting eels and saw guys on the hook in the middle of the inelt.

Bad part was they still had the running lights on.

That was the last time for me there, just to dangerous.

If someone has a up to date NOAA chart it will give the proper info on that inlet.

This post edited by baywatch 12:03 PM 06/02/2008

 

[Seajay2]

baywatch wrote:

I would think that this would also void any insurance on any recreational boaters as well for an incedent/accident in the inlet.


Doing something wrong or even stupid does not by itself void an insurance policy. If you do something wrong or stupid and cause someone else injury or destroy your boat you are covered under the terms of any marine insurance contract, assuming it wasn't willfull and negligent (see your insurance policy for exact wording). You will probably be cancelled for future coverage after the incident however.

 

[Scott1280]

I saw Moriches Inlet for the first time last year and I immediately thought everyone there was out of their minds!

Between the boats drifting, anchored and flying through the channel between the jetties

, the maniacs coming in screaming around the corners of those jetties at WOT

and the guys tucked up in tight to the breakers at the mouth of the "inlet"

, it made Jones Inlet look like a walk in the park.

You boyz is crazy!!

 

[cometport]

Remove those Green Buoys too

Not only are the Anchored Dudes creating a problem, those Green Buoys
set up not too long ago at the cuts create more danger than they serve
any safety purpose. They are a hazard.

I was out there for the first time this season on Monday. The two
green cans were tangled up together, like a blockade. If the buoys
aren't going to be maintained, then they should be removed.

Between the anchored guys and the green buoys, the inlet is more
dangerous than ever.

 

[RookieHook]

UnNavicable?

cometport wrote:
Not only are the Anchored Dudes creating a problem, those Green Buoys
set up not too long ago at the cuts create more danger than they serve
any safety purpose. They are a hazard.

I was out there for the first time this season on Monday. The two
green cans were tangled up together, like a blockade. If the buoys
aren't going to be maintained, then they should be removed.

Between the anchored guys and the green buoys, the inlet is more
dangerous than ever.

If under federal law the inlet is unnavicable, why are boats FLYING in and out of it

? If the law states that the inlet is unable to be navigated, it seems the people anchoring are ok, as they are stationary! Those who are navigating (flying through, or drifting) appear to be the ones breaking the law! If people would just pick a spot, everything would be easier, hence no complaints about trying to navigate an unnavicable inlet! This inlet was fine with anchored boats and drifters until it was open! I pulled out about 300 feet of line matted with muscles and seaweed...probably from someone who was drifting, and waited until the end of the drift to cut their line!

 

[chinacat]

RookieHook wrote:
cometport wrote:
Not only are the Anchored Dudes creating a problem, those Green Buoys
set up not too long ago at the cuts create more danger than they serve
any safety purpose. They are a hazard.

I was out there for the first time this season on Monday. The two
green cans were tangled up together, like a blockade. If the buoys
aren't going to be maintained, then they should be removed.

Between the anchored guys and the green buoys, the inlet is more
dangerous than ever.

Your name says it all.
You have my vote for the Darwin Award Man of the year.

Now why couldn't anybody else figure it out before. It's all the **** guys in motion screwing up the inlet!

Thanks Dude. I needed a good laugh!!!
If under federal law the inlet is unnavicable, why are boats FLYING in and out of it

? If the law states that the inlet is unable to be navigated, it seems the people anchoring are ok, as they are stationary! Those who are navigating (flying through, or drifting) appear to be the ones breaking the law! If people would just pick a spot, everything would be easier, hence no complaints about trying to navigate an unnavicable inlet! This inlet was fine with anchored boats and drifters until it was open! I pulled out about 300 feet of line matted with muscles and seaweed...probably from someone who was drifting, and waited until the end of the drift to cut their line!

 

[chinacat]

RookieHook wrote:
cometport wrote:
Not only are the Anchored Dudes creating a problem, those Green Buoys
set up not too long ago at the cuts create more danger than they serve
any safety purpose. They are a hazard.

I was out there for the first time this season on Monday. The two
green cans were tangled up together, like a blockade. If the buoys
aren't going to be maintained, then they should be removed.

Between the anchored guys and the green buoys, the inlet is more
dangerous than ever.

If under federal law the inlet is unnavicable, why are boats FLYING in and out of it

? If the law states that the inlet is unable to be navigated, it seems the people anchoring are ok, as they are stationary! Those who are navigating (flying through, or drifting) appear to be the ones breaking the law! If people would just pick a spot, everything would be easier, hence no complaints about trying to navigate an unnavicable inlet! This inlet was fine with anchored boats and drifters until it was open! I pulled out about 300 feet of line matted with muscles and seaweed...probably from someone who was drifting, and waited until the end of the drift to cut their line!

Your name says it all.
You have my vote for the Darwin Award Man of the year.

Now why couldn't anybody else figure it out before. It's all the **** guys in motion screwing up the inlet!

Thanks Dude. I needed a good laugh!!!

 

[Lattitudechange]

Moriches inlet tends to draw a lot of stooopit.

 

[Bunkerdunker11]

The key is to get out early and fish before the anchored boats show up and don't even think about fishing the inlet on the weekends - you would just be wasting time. take the boat to the beach instead but not the east cut - thats a whole other show.....

 

[RookieHook]

like that one!

chinacat wrote:
RookieHook wrote:
cometport wrote:
Not only are the Anchored Dudes creating a problem, those Green Buoys
set up not too long ago at the cuts create more danger than they serve
any safety purpose. They are a hazard.

I was out there for the first time this season on Monday. The two
green cans were tangled up together, like a blockade. If the buoys
aren't going to be maintained, then they should be removed.

Between the anchored guys and the green buoys, the inlet is more
dangerous than ever.

If under federal law the inlet is unnavicable, why are boats FLYING in and out of it

? If the law states that the inlet is unable to be navigated, it seems the people anchoring are ok, as they are stationary! Those who are navigating (flying through, or drifting) appear to be the ones breaking the law! If people would just pick a spot, everything would be easier, hence no complaints about trying to navigate an unnavicable inlet! This inlet was fine with anchored boats and drifters until it was open! I pulled out about 300 feet of line matted with muscles and seaweed...probably from someone who was drifting, and waited until the end of the drift to cut their line!

Your name says it all.
You have my vote for the Darwin Award Man of the year.

Now why couldn't anybody else figure it out before. It's all the **** guys in motion screwing up the inlet!

Thanks Dude. I needed a good laugh!!!

Figured I'd give someone a good laugh! Nice to see you didn't take it seriously.....I was hoping to fire everyone up for a bit! You like that part about pulling up the line?