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Post by nikonoclast on Aug 6, 2024 20:26:48 GMT -5
Grace is a granny, in her 80's ... ( That last note is probably still true. )
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Post by walkerdog on Aug 6, 2024 21:00:54 GMT -5
just cross your fingers and hope nothing bigger than you is in the way? Nah, there's a little more to it in this day and age to mitigate risks, but I do remember a few 6 day steams back to Massachusetts from the Grand Banks, around cape cod, through Buzzards Bay while seeing very little except targets on the radar. One time my head was in the radar tube the whole transit through Buzzards Bay. The first thing I saw by eye was the pilings at Frankie Silvias dock. Some of the GoM fog can be incredibly bad as well. Running blind out there among those platforms and the work boat traffic in the rivers sucks ass. Almost forgot Alaska and Newfoundland. That shit can be BAD too. The Rio de la Plata can be pretty intense too when the south equatorial current starts pushing south real good and it hits the cooler water down there off Argentina. That's when the fishing becomes so spectacular that you think the place was never fished before... Ya know, the ocean really is a bitch. People ask me all the time what's the worst condition I've seen at sea. The truth is, any body of water can be ugly as hell and beat you up in so many different ways. I am not sure I hate the ocean, but I certainly know what my dad meant when he said he never lost anything out there so he didn't need to go back to look for it. Crossed the shipping lanes running through pea soup in a 26’ hydra sport off of cape cod one time while tuna fishing. Not a good feeling.
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 6, 2024 21:27:32 GMT -5
I was fishing under the Apalachicola bridge one morning. Around 11 o'clock fog started rolling in by noon you couldn't see anything. Only time I've ever seen anything like that in the middle of the day.
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Post by swampdog on Aug 7, 2024 19:14:28 GMT -5
Was on a cruise ship coming into Italy. Fog was so bad the ship and all others stopped. Every few minutes they’d sound a “fog horn. You could hear other ships as well. You couldn’t see anything outside. It was pretty erie. As the fog lifted, there were a ton of small fishing boats out and about.
Way back in the day we hit fog going hunting one morning and it was so bad, dad pulled off the highway and shut the vehicle off and we just listened. You couldn’t see a thing and it was as close to zero visibility as you could imagine. We heard a semi idling slowly by approximately 20 feet away and couldn’t see it. When the fog lifted we were a couple of feet from running over a speed limit sign.
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Post by Tarpon65 on Aug 11, 2024 7:22:00 GMT -5
Pic of the rainbow behind my house this morning.
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Post by gardawg on Aug 11, 2024 8:42:34 GMT -5
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Post by gandy on Aug 12, 2024 9:25:54 GMT -5
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Post by slough on Aug 14, 2024 16:21:10 GMT -5
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 14, 2024 16:45:48 GMT -5
🤣😂
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Post by cadman on Aug 14, 2024 18:30:25 GMT -5
I did that at work once in my younger days. My boss walked in after a long day and before he could ask for another "favor", I said hold on, pulled out the bottle, chugged it all, and said "O.K. now what"
Thankfully he had a sense of humor.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 15, 2024 1:11:38 GMT -5
My cousin used to drink his father’s scotch and vodka then add water to it
He got caught doing it to the scotch
He learned really well not to do it anymore
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 15, 2024 1:36:04 GMT -5
Tequila and Mescal with the worm. Really keep them guessing for a few days. Act like your hallucinating.
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Post by conchydong on Aug 16, 2024 15:40:05 GMT -5
My great grandfather. He died before I was born but he sailed on Turtle schooners out of Key West to the Caymans and as far south as Costa Rica. My great grandmother is in the picture and she was something else. Their house in Key West still had an outhouse when I was young.
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Post by gardawg on Aug 17, 2024 8:19:09 GMT -5
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Post by Tarpon65 on Aug 23, 2024 9:56:16 GMT -5
Come on, admit it. You know you have!
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