LadyFish
Admiral
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- Mar 18, 2003
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This is a question I should have asked myself <br />before I talked Mr. LF into taking me out <br />in the bay fishing yesterday.<br /><br />It was a gorgeous morning--the full moon was <br />setting on one side of the bay and the sun was <br />rising straight behind us over the Gulf of Mexico.<br /><br />We listened to NOAA before we left and winds were<br /> out of the of the south at 14. We've been in <br />10-15's and thought nothing of it. Well about 30 <br />minutes after we got out on the bay the winds <br />shifted and were coming at us sustained 25 with <br />gusts to 39. The forecast was for the winds to <br />pick up in the afternoon, but it was 7:00 a.m.<br />And they only predicted 10-15's. Even NOAA makes<br />mistakes.<br /><br />I knew it was going to be a little rough, but I <br />was game and desperate to go to my favorite spot<br />which was a bit further down the bay.<br /><br />Well, you'd have thought we were offshore. We <br />had to anchor in order to fish which led us to <br />problem #2. Getting the anchor up in nearly 40 mph<br /> winds is not fun. Trying to guide the boat up to <br />the anchor rope in those winds isn't any fun <br />either. Watching Mr. LF go under water when the <br />waves broke over the bow as he is trying to <br />dislodge a very set anchor was frightening as <br />hell.<br /><br />We only stayed out about 3 hours which is a short<br />day of fishing for us. But with the 4 foot swells<br />on the return trip and running the bildge every<br />5 minutes to get rid of all the water coming over<br />the bow every 6 seconds it was a long trip home.<br />We went about 30 miles under these<br />conditions and only caught one fish.<br /><br />All in all, it was good to know how the boat <br />handles in adverse conditions but I'm not ready<br />to do it again........<br /><br /><br />.............this week anyway. 
