Dani
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A friend called me up and said that he needed to run some gas out of his boat, did I want to go snapper fishing on the last open day of the season this year? He knows I get sea sick easily and told me that it was supposed to be a calm day.
Calm it was
And lordy was it foggy. It was the first time I was ever happy to be around someone smoking cigarettes because I was able to smell the folk we could have run over before we could see them.
But we found fish
The tax man found us
As did a large pod of dolphins. Of course just as we were getting into the snapper.
We didn't get out of the fog until we were about 25 miles offshore. The fog never cleared up closer to shore and seemed to thicken as the day wore on. For whatever reason, Larry's navionics didn't have the navigation buoys turned on so heading back in to the boat ramp was pretty interesting. Visibility was no more than about 40 yards. We had to motor around barrier islands to get to the boat ramp. With visibility so bad, seeing the islands was pretty challenging. We could see them on the maps (his navionics and I had my OnX pulled up) but you can always be off just a little. So, when I saw the beach coming up swiftly I calmly turned to Larry and said, "Larry you need to turn left right now." Happily he did and he saw why not too quickly after. Once we got to the boat ramp he looked at me and was like, HOW THE HECK COULD YOU SO CALMLY TELL ME WE ARE GOING TO CRASH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?
It still boggles his mind and thinks it is highly funny
We caught our limit of red snapper and was also able to bring home some red grouper as well.
The snapper has made for some great eating
The very best part of the day??? I wasn't sea sick once. I think it helped that it was a cool, foggy day. Seasickness happens quick for me if I get hot and can't cool down.
Dani
Calm it was
And lordy was it foggy. It was the first time I was ever happy to be around someone smoking cigarettes because I was able to smell the folk we could have run over before we could see them.
But we found fish
The tax man found us
As did a large pod of dolphins. Of course just as we were getting into the snapper.
We didn't get out of the fog until we were about 25 miles offshore. The fog never cleared up closer to shore and seemed to thicken as the day wore on. For whatever reason, Larry's navionics didn't have the navigation buoys turned on so heading back in to the boat ramp was pretty interesting. Visibility was no more than about 40 yards. We had to motor around barrier islands to get to the boat ramp. With visibility so bad, seeing the islands was pretty challenging. We could see them on the maps (his navionics and I had my OnX pulled up) but you can always be off just a little. So, when I saw the beach coming up swiftly I calmly turned to Larry and said, "Larry you need to turn left right now." Happily he did and he saw why not too quickly after. Once we got to the boat ramp he looked at me and was like, HOW THE HECK COULD YOU SO CALMLY TELL ME WE ARE GOING TO CRASH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?
It still boggles his mind and thinks it is highly funny
We caught our limit of red snapper and was also able to bring home some red grouper as well.
The snapper has made for some great eating
The very best part of the day??? I wasn't sea sick once. I think it helped that it was a cool, foggy day. Seasickness happens quick for me if I get hot and can't cool down.
Dani
