New Home for Fishing FINattic

After many years up the Thames river at Galesferry marina, FishingFINattic has found a new place to call home.

I decided that as gas approached $4 per gallon, it was starting make sense to pay the extra money and put my boat down closer to the fishing grounds.

I had narrowed it down to two marinas; Burr's in NewLondon or PineIsland in Groton.

We spent some time at both marinas yesterday.

We sat on the pier at Burr's and watched the ferries pass. I really think the rock pile offers unique protection from the ferry wakes as I did not see any rocking from the slow passing ferries. I have to say that some other larger boats probally wont slow down as much, and could cause some shaking, but I didnt see any. We walked the neighbor hood and looked at the local reasturants. I could certianly see parking becoming an issue if I was meeting 5 guys (with 5 cars) to head out for a two day trip. Other than parking, the marina would of fit the bill.

We went to PineIsland, checked out the marina, plenty of parking, excluded site, close promity to the fishing grounds, sheltered, bait shop on site, yamaha service department. It almost became a no brainer.

We chose PineIsland. This marina is 1.5 miles from Ledge light, 7 miles from the race, 22.5 miles from Montauk point and 3 miles from my work.

I could actually leave work @ 4:30, hit the on site bait shop to pick up eels and have the lines wet at the race by 5:00pm.

Here is the marina location:


The slip location is great with a strait shot to sound!

This is the view from the pier!

One of the things I am going to miss is being in the same marina with my parents and my brother. My brother is staying at Galesferry and my dad is going to Burr's.