Montauk Trip

[3wt]

For floating:

You can't float in the park (fyi, the spring is in the park).

If you have your own canoe, I'd put in at tan vat or baptist camp.

Tan Vat is a kind of poorly marked access, first downstream from montauk when you follow the road along the river past the campgrounds.

Baptist is the next (at the top of a big hill, road turns to pavement).

This will let you float the best fishing stretch - you might drag quite a bit this time of year.

If you need to rent, they'll probably only put you in as far up as Cedar Grove (due to low water), which is where the Blue Ribbon area ends, and fishing isn't very good (Some seem to have some luck once you hit welch springs - which is a big spring that cools the water back down, can't miss it), and there will be tons of floaters on a weekend. The most common day float would be Cedar Groave to Akers Ferry. Nice float if there aren't many other floaters.

If you're looking to fish, the blue ribbon is best, but you'll tend to blow by the good fishing quickly if you don't make a real point of stopping often. It's really best fished by wading. Maybe somebody would rent you a kayak and let you transport it yourself. Then I'd float Tan Vat to Cedar grove (easy to take out there).

Try Jadwin for rentals