Posted: January 26th, 2002, 8:08 pm
As others have said on the FS site, NOAA, and for that matter all the other weather forecast guys, should either quit making a marine forecast or get better. They are really pathetic.
The "nice and calm" forecast day was rough, rough, rough. Left Lanark Marina at 7:30, and the tide was REALLY low, but we managed to get out. Hardly any trailers in the lot, and that was a bad sign. As soon as we rounded the shoal, we started to take spray over the port side, and it was COLD. One-two foot, smooth to a light chop was really like 15 knots, and 3-5 foot. We crawled my 17 footer out to a spot in 40' of water and managed to anchor up. The bow was careening to the sky over every choppy swell, and we were falling all over the boat.
We managed to catch 3 nice gags, and my buddy lost me a real nice one at the boat, when he tried to gaff it and jerked it up in the air and loose from the hook. Lots of rockies and grunts on squid, the gags liked LYs. We went on in at about 12:30, and it was calming down at that point. Most other boats we saw out were 24 footers and bigger, so we definitely were the little guy.
The rough weather dragged my anchor into that proverbial ledge, and 15 minutes of yanking and hauling didn't get it out. Maybe divers will find it one day.
Eddie Joe
The "nice and calm" forecast day was rough, rough, rough. Left Lanark Marina at 7:30, and the tide was REALLY low, but we managed to get out. Hardly any trailers in the lot, and that was a bad sign. As soon as we rounded the shoal, we started to take spray over the port side, and it was COLD. One-two foot, smooth to a light chop was really like 15 knots, and 3-5 foot. We crawled my 17 footer out to a spot in 40' of water and managed to anchor up. The bow was careening to the sky over every choppy swell, and we were falling all over the boat.
We managed to catch 3 nice gags, and my buddy lost me a real nice one at the boat, when he tried to gaff it and jerked it up in the air and loose from the hook. Lots of rockies and grunts on squid, the gags liked LYs. We went on in at about 12:30, and it was calming down at that point. Most other boats we saw out were 24 footers and bigger, so we definitely were the little guy.
The rough weather dragged my anchor into that proverbial ledge, and 15 minutes of yanking and hauling didn't get it out. Maybe divers will find it one day.
Eddie Joe
