Cold Fishing Trip AGAIN!!!

[Marilyn]

I'm going on my third fishing trip of the year this Saturday, and here's the forecast:

Sat
Nov 15

Sunny / Wind

High 67°
Low 41°

10% chance of precipitation

This will be the coldest day in a ten day period, same as the other two trips!!!

It is really cold out on the water when it's 41° and the guide is running the boat between 30 and 50 mph. Last time, in October, I ended up with a really bad cold and a big fever blister. It may have been a coincidence, but I really think getting so cold contributed. We may also be having a bit of red tide which contributes to the problem.

Here, for comparison is Friday's forecast:

Fri
Nov 14

Sunny

High 81°
Low 55°

20% chance of precipitation.

At least there is less chance of rain on Saturday. Hopefully we will catch lots of fish and no one will get sick this time. Keep your fingers crossed for us!!

I'll be entertaining customers, again, so this will not be a purely fun trip. I was taking two high up plant managers though, and they cancelled on me today because their CEO is coming in on Saturday for a special meeting (hope it's not bad news). So at the last minute, I had to find replacements. I actually only found one, so tomorrow morning will be on the phone again. It's also hunting season, so lots of folks are in the hill country chasing the deer.

[DianaB]

Maybe you should take them golfing!!!! I'd be bundled up for sure!!! I don't handle cold very well!! Just ask Janet!!!!

[gja1000]

Marilyn,
My SIL goes on lots of trips like this too - sometimes he's being entertained, sometimes he's doing the entertaining.

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by DianaB

Maybe you should take them golfing!!!! I'd be bundled up for sure!!! I don't handle cold very well!! Just ask Janet!!!!

Golfing would be much better, plus we wouldn't be leaving the dock at 6 a.m. I have to pick the guys up at my office at 5:15 a.m. which means I have to leave my home by 4:30, which means I have to get up around 3:45.

Friday evening I have to be at a dinner from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in a town about an hour drive from my home. Then have to make sandwiches for the fishing trip before going to bed.

Doesn't this sound like fun???

I was just sharing this with hubby and he's going to do my grocery shopping for the trip and make my sandwiches for me!!! What a guy!!!

[DianaB]

So when is it that you get to sleep?

[Marilyn]

Well, the fishing trip is finally over!!! It was very cold, and so horribly windy. As soon as the guide gave the boat the gas, a huge thermos of coffee one of the guys brought slid off the console and into the bottom of the boat. Coffee and thermos glass went everywhere. We had to stop and clean it up. Then the guide ran the boat aground on a sand bar and they guys had to roll up their pant legs, put on water shoes and push us off the sand bar. One of the guys got his jeans really wet, and one of his socks fell in the water, so he was wet and cold from much of the trip. Most of us got splashed at one time or another during the day, and with the wind chill, it was really, really cold.

We cast off at 6 a.m. and returned to the dock at around 2:30 p.m. Weigh in was at 3 p.m. We caught some trout, but it was a hard day fishing. The wind was gusting much higher than predicted. We're guessing around 40 mph, and the swells on the bay were around 3 feet. We tried to stay in sheltered areas, but the anchors wouldn't hold us in that wind, so we kept drifting way too quickly and having to fly back around and drift again.

I don't ever, ever want to do that again. Three fishing trips this year and every one of them cold. I did bring a nice flounder home for the freezer, but other than that, this is not a redo.

I need to take some guys out fishing, but we are doing it when we can pick a nice day, not a required tournament day like this one.

My face and lips feel so chapped from the wind. Will be so glad when my face feels normal again.

[gja1000]

Brrrrrr...... I've been out fishing on a day like that and the memory is not pleasant!!! My hubby is a died in the wool hardy fisherman - but even he wouldn't be happy with those conditions. Actually, I would have been sick, with the wind whipping up the swells, I don't do well with that!!!

Hope you never have to do that again!!!