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Offline BGBMAW

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« on: April 26, 2004, 06:34:32 PM »
Going to Sandiego-BahaArea I think to fish for Big fish..
any1 here experienced down there?
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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2004, 06:41:41 PM »
I'm not BGB but wanted to stop by and wish ya luck!
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Offline rabbidrabbit

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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2004, 06:52:40 PM »
If you go a bit south to Cabo San Lucas you will not be disapointed..  Don't know about San Diego though.
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2004, 06:57:06 PM »
I was out fly fishing both days this weekend. Hope ya have better luck than I did. :)

Going back out this eve... It's personal now.
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2004, 07:04:17 PM »
Can't do it (Deep sea fishing).  Much vomiting.

Done it before...5 times.  Each time was a new experience in hell.

Vomit Vomit Vomit

You know, if you discovered that your enemy was prone to seasickness and you needed him to talk, all you gotta do is put him on a boat and let him float.  He'll talk...oh yes, he'll talk.  ;)

It is fun catching some big fish though.  I've seen Wahoo and sharks each go after a fish that had already been caught (and baited with a fish) that was being hauled in.  It is a real life lesson in the "food chain" when you pull in half of a large tuna or porgy.

If that damn boat would just stop messing with my inner ear I'd love it.
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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2004, 07:12:34 PM »
Must be hell to live on a little Island and get sea-sick.  All my fishing is Atlantic/gulfcoast, but I have done some Pacific in Mexico and Guatemala.

Are you chartering?
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« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2004, 07:16:18 PM »
I remember talking about this with someone I worked with years ago, I think it was tuna fishing, not sure. Anyway , he said that some let you keep the fish but others keep the fish you catch, not sure though, I could be way off.
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« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2004, 07:22:36 PM »
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Originally posted by Lizking
Must be hell to live on a little Island and get sea-sick.  


It is only offshore that I get sick.  I lose sight of land I start hurling about an hour or two later.

Other than that I am good.

I lead a normal, healthy, active aquatic lifestyle.  :)
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« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2004, 07:26:03 PM »
Trick to fighting off sea sickness. Keep your eyes glued to the horizon and concentrate on thinking about green apples.

Don't ask me why... but it works.
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« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2004, 07:33:02 PM »
..and you are supposed to do this and fish and be somewhat social all at the same time all day?  Not possible.  I understand why people say it would work but you have to stay rivited on the horizon for it to work.

Once the sickness starts there is no stopping it.  Your inner ear loses it's balance and the constant motion of the boat keeps it out of whack.
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« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2004, 07:37:05 PM »
Well...

Once sea sickness sets in - you're done for the day. When I was a kid my holidays consisted of weeks/months on a sailboat. I didn't really ever get sea sick. But when we took company out and they got it, it became about maintainance. Yeah, fishing and everything else is over... the trick is in not having to return to shore immediately on account of them.
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« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2004, 07:48:06 PM »
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Yeah, fishing and everything else is over... the trick is in not having to return to shore immediately on account of them.


EXACTLY correct.

Chartering a fishing boat isn't cheap though, by any streach.  No amount of vomitting by one person is getting that boat to turn around, I'm afraid.

This is why I use the term "hell" to describe the experience.
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« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2004, 07:49:02 PM »
Dramamine really does help.

I've had some friends go down there for tuna fishing and had a great time, I've never been down there personally.

I have fished off of Catalina on overnight trips many times, it's fun but it's not deep sea fishing.
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« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2004, 07:54:02 PM »
Rgr that Curval.

I don't know how often you've seen it, but I've always been kind of blown away that almost invariably, the puke from a sea sick person is a real liquidy greenish yellow. Taking all the usual contributors into consideration, it still doesn't account for it.

Uhm...

yeah...  :)
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« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2004, 08:08:12 PM »
When I was running charters, it was pretty much a set pattern:

The party would arrive the night before, get drunker than Cooter Brown, arrive at the dock late and hungover, eat a bunch of sweet crap and slam some soft drinks.  It never surpised me they were puking before we cleared the jetties.

Here is how you can go offshore and not get sick:

Don't try and drink until 3:00 am when the boat is leaving at 6:00AM.

Don't drink or eat anything sweet; eat a rib-sticking breakfast like bisquits, gravy and ham(eggs are not a good thing either), or a couple of breakfast tacos.

Do not go below.  Stay on deck, as near to the center of the boat as possible, the bridge is the best place, if there is room.

Do not crack a beer at 6:30.  Our suggestion/boat rule was no beer till the first fish is on the boat or 11:00AM, which ever happens first.

Stay busy!  Do something, anything, except for reading.

Sea-sickness medications work by making you sleep.  Save yourself a thousand bucks if you want to sleep and stay at the hotel.
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