Re: lost in a fog...
Tuesday morning, last week, we're on Beaver lake Ar. before dawn, putting to our planned fishing hole of the morning. <br />Heavy fog, maybe 15' visability. Our first time out in fog. Kinda fun, kinda nerve wracking, kinda stupid.<br /><br />I do have the air horn close by in case we hear some yahoo barring down on us, but no compass.<br /><br />I notice that my girlfriend keeps listing and point her back easternly, according to wind direction back on shore, before stepping to the back to rig up the rods.<br /><br />Shortly she calls out, "Land ho" and I think no way, should have taken another 10 minutes to get there.<br /><br />It's the tiny island. I think "Hmmm" we must have been putting much faster then I had thought, point out the new heading, and go back to rigging at a quicker pace.<br /><br />An hour later, dumb luck, we had putted 4 miles striaght north, up the middle of the longest cove possible, without seeing either shore, before there was light to pin point our location.<br /><br />We had only wanted to go about 1 mile west.<br /><br />We needed a new fish finder anyway...so now a model with GPS is on the list.<br /><br />We did hear one yahoo running the lake earlier that morning and later met him out drifting. A stripper guide. Said,"...with GPS it's no sweat.". The 4 older guys in back discribed the run as "not too comforting".<br /><br />I had to ponder the guide who scares the willies out of his paying customers. Bobberhead.<br /><br />We have no plans for big lakes, compass and GPS or not.
<br />how can you not have a compass on big water???<br />M.Y.