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Island Boy · 07-08-2009, 04:42 PM

Does anybody ever dive inside the inlet during the week. Where do you enter? Is it even worth the effort?

Intaugnito · 07-08-2009, 06:35 PM

Read #6, under Barnegat Provivions, and try to find a "buddy" who knows the drill down there. Thats really all I can tell you, other than be careful, and good luck.

http://www.scubanj.org/NJdiverules.html

Island Boy · 07-09-2009, 12:08 PM

Thank You Intaugnito.

Mako993 · 07-10-2009, 07:56 AM

Looks like these were updated late September of 2008:

"c) Provisions for Barnegat Inlet are as follows:

1. Except as provided in this subsection, no person or persons shall, while engaged in gogglefishing, spearfishing or skin diving, enter into any navigable channel or approach within 200 feet of any boat anchored or underway within the water adjacent to the land areas of the Borough of Barnegat Light.
2. No person shall dive in any of the waters of the Barnegat Inlet channel.
3. Skin and Scuba diving is permitted from the north and south jetties, but no person shall dive further than 25 feet from the rock jetty or bulkhead within the inlet.
4. No person shall dive within Barnegat Inlet between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM on Saturdays and Sundays from June 1 to September 30.
5. A diver shall mark his or her position with a float and skin diver’s flag.
6. Only "buddy diving" shall be permitted in the Barnegat Inlet.
7. Recreational diving is prohibited within 100 feet of the north monument.
8. Recreational diving is prohibited within the inlet when the current is a flood."

Number 4 is disturbing - did a diver get run over last year, and what does "within Barnegat Inlet" include in this case? If you can't spearfish the Inlet on weekends, guess we'll have to wait for fall and winter, when the biggest stripers show up in late October and November! Well, there's always the jetties somewhere outside the Inlet until then I guess....

njfreediver · 07-10-2009, 08:06 AM

I dive there all the time. actually headed there in about ten minutes. If you go in off the south jetty you have to either go in off the rocks or walk all the way down to the beach. If you decide to go off the rocks, you have to go in east of where the concrete side walk ends.

Spearo56 · 07-10-2009, 02:23 PM

Dive the south jetty alot to

Just remeber to enter the water where the concrete ends (from the concrete back to the light house is state prorpety, they kind of frown upon people who dive in that zone)

Also DO NOT DO ANYTHING STUPID

Cause you'll make all of us look bad, I aint trying to be an a-hole or smart ass or what not, but we have been having a few problems with some spearos there latley

Remember its up to us to keep the sport going by our actions and not get a bad rep otherwise it will get banned

Island Boy · 07-10-2009, 04:49 PM

Thanks to everyone.

I agree that it only takes only a few to screw it up for everyone.

If we don't police ourselves, we doom the future of our sport. Intergrity is doing the right things all the time, even when no one is watching.

Spearo56 · 07-10-2009, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Island Boy

Thanks to everyone.

I agree that it only takes only a few to screw it up for everyone.

If we don't police ourselves, we doom the future of our sport. Intergrity is doing the right things all the time, even when no one is watching.

See? You got it! Now get out there and be the best damn spearo you can be!

njfreediver · 07-11-2009, 08:59 AM

Don't be afraid to hang out in the deep holes. I just pulled a 34 and 36" bass out of there yesterday

Mako993 · 07-11-2009, 12:30 PM

Got it fellas, thanks! I'll be back up that way in 2 weekends.

Spearo56 · 07-11-2009, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mako993

Got it fellas, thanks! I'll be back up that way in 2 weekends.

Hopefully there wont be another boat fire..................

Nice Avatar Mako, I will PM you another one similar to that

njfreediver · 07-11-2009, 07:54 PM

haha did you see that today?

Spearo56 · 07-12-2009, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by njfreediver

haha did you see that today?

Nope I missed it, my friend over there at the USCG sta. Called me and told me it would be a bad idea if I tried to go spearing yesterday

Joe you still trying to get rid of that RA 90 w/reel? Pm me whats up and how its rigged, thanks.

Mako993 · 07-13-2009, 01:09 PM

Got it Spearo, PM back.

Boat fire? HS!


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07-08-2009, 04:42 PM	#1
Island Boy Veni Vidi Spearo Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Barnegat, NJ Posts: 23	Diving Barnegat Inlet Does anybody ever dive inside the inlet during the week. Where do you enter? Is it even worth the effort?

07-08-2009, 06:35 PM	#2
Intaugnito Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pt. Pleasant, NJ Posts: 679	Re: Diving Barnegat Inlet Read #6, under Barnegat Provivions, and try to find a "buddy" who knows the drill down there. Thats really all I can tell you, other than be careful, and good luck. http://www.scubanj.org/NJdiverules.html

07-09-2009, 12:08 PM	#3
Island Boy Veni Vidi Spearo Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Barnegat, NJ Posts: 23	Re: Diving Barnegat Inlet Thank You Intaugnito.

07-10-2009, 07:56 AM	#4
Mako993 Mako Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Alexandria, Virginia Posts: 718	Re: Diving Barnegat Inlet Looks like these were updated late September of 2008: "c) Provisions for Barnegat Inlet are as follows: 1. Except as provided in this subsection, no person or persons shall, while engaged in gogglefishing, spearfishing or skin diving, enter into any navigable channel or approach within 200 feet of any boat anchored or underway within the water adjacent to the land areas of the Borough of Barnegat Light. 2. No person shall dive in any of the waters of the Barnegat Inlet channel. 3. Skin and Scuba diving is permitted from the north and south jetties, but no person shall dive further than 25 feet from the rock jetty or bulkhead within the inlet. 4. No person shall dive within Barnegat Inlet between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM on Saturdays and Sundays from June 1 to September 30. 5. A diver shall mark his or her position with a float and skin diver’s flag. 6. Only "buddy diving" shall be permitted in the Barnegat Inlet. 7. Recreational diving is prohibited within 100 feet of the north monument. 8. Recreational diving is prohibited within the inlet when the current is a flood." Number 4 is disturbing - did a diver get run over last year, and what does "within Barnegat Inlet" include in this case? If you can't spearfish the Inlet on weekends, guess we'll have to wait for fall and winter, when the biggest stripers show up in late October and November! Well, there's always the jetties somewhere outside the Inlet until then I guess.... __________________ “A sadder and wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.” – S.T. Coleridge, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’

07-10-2009, 08:06 AM	#5
njfreediver Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Forked River Posts: 163	Re: Diving Barnegat Inlet I dive there all the time. actually headed there in about ten minutes. If you go in off the south jetty you have to either go in off the rocks or walk all the way down to the beach. If you decide to go off the rocks, you have to go in east of where the concrete side walk ends.

07-10-2009, 04:49 PM	#7
Island Boy Veni Vidi Spearo Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Barnegat, NJ Posts: 23	Re: Diving Barnegat Inlet Thanks to everyone. I agree that it only takes only a few to screw it up for everyone. If we don't police ourselves, we doom the future of our sport. Intergrity is doing the right things all the time, even when no one is watching.

07-11-2009, 08:59 AM	#9
njfreediver Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Forked River Posts: 163	Re: Diving Barnegat Inlet Don't be afraid to hang out in the deep holes. I just pulled a 34 and 36" bass out of there yesterday

07-11-2009, 12:30 PM	#10
Mako993 Mako Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Alexandria, Virginia Posts: 718	Re: Diving Barnegat Inlet Got it fellas, thanks! I'll be back up that way in 2 weekends. __________________ “A sadder and wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.” – S.T. Coleridge, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’

07-11-2009, 07:54 PM	#12
njfreediver Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Forked River Posts: 163	Re: Diving Barnegat Inlet haha did you see that today?

07-13-2009, 01:09 PM	#14
Mako993 Mako Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Alexandria, Virginia Posts: 718	Re: Diving Barnegat Inlet Got it Spearo, PM back. Boat fire? HS! __________________ “A sadder and wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.” – S.T. Coleridge, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’

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