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MoondoggieWed Dec-06-00 04:46 PM
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Now when the seas are "Victory at Sea" size, with wind whipping the tops off, I cna do fine in any condition. The adreniline flows and I am concentrating on survival. But when it is just snotty, and I have committed my three evil sins of sea-sickness, watch out.

It starts out, between the slamming of the boat, a small grumble. At that point, I think I can tell which side of the fence I will fall. Will it just be a litte ill feeling, that comes and goes.... or will it develop into something much more viceral.... I could tell that this was going to be a bad one. But at that point, the best thing to do would be to eat a few pieces of bread and try to quiet the stomach juices down...... but that just sounds so bad at that point. I am concentrating on just trying to hold on to the seat.

Finally, after what seems like forever, actually about 40 minutes, we reach the weather bouy.

"Set the lines out....." Matt tells us.

I set out a daisy chain, made up of six little squid skirts, ahead of a jethead lure, it mimics a school of bait, outrunning a larger baitfish. The center rod has a black and green feather, and the other corner rod has a cedar plug. All lure that have produced many fish, both this season, and the past few.....

We get the lines in, set the correct distance behind the boat, and begin to look for signs of life.

"What an Yaaa-hoo!" Matt shakes his head in discust. The boat we are passing only has one person aboard. The guy is holding a doubled over rod in one hand, and a gaff in the other. It is very evident that he is struggling to gaff the fish, as his many swipes are not fruitfull. "There are so many things that can go wrong out here, you never come out here alone, even with this many boats around, you never know....."

We focus on finding any signs of life, dipping birds, kelp and trash paddies, whales, current breaks. The boat is tossed by a cross-chop, about 5 to 6 feet high, banking one way, and dipping another.

The stomach is now begining to really grumble. I fear I am past the point of no return. I make my way up to the bow, hoping that the wind in my face will ease my discomfort. I feel the first beads of sweat on my forehead. The forcast is bleak.

Defcon 2

We trolled down swell for an hour or so, with nothing but an hours worth of propwash to show. The radio crackles of fish at 3 degrees and 13 degrees.

"Lets pick em up and run to those numbers. Bring em in guys." Matt grabs his GPS and punches in the coordinates the radio announced.

After feeling a little better running downswell, we were now going to run uphill, into the swell. Here we go again.

Slam slam slam......

Uh oh... I am now burping the copious amounts of gas that my gut is producing.

Defcon 3 I remember a lame cold war movie when it was us against the commies, and as things escalated, we would go from defcon 1 to defcon 5, being total nuclear war.

Belching is about the last place you can turn around and return from unscathed. The beads of sweat are now rolling down my face. If only I had eaten that toast.... If only I hadn't had the cocoa and the orange juice. I could almost taste the curdled milk..... I knew I that would, soon.

Slam, slam, slam.....

Defcon 4, deep breathing. At this point, you are trying to get as much oxygen as possible. Breath in, breath out. Long, deep breaths. Look at the horizon, no focus on the land, no look at the ocean. I look back on all the advice I had given over the years as a deckhand. Pinch the web between your thumb and forefinger. I was double-pinching, deep-breathing and sweating.

Slam slam slam. Deep breath, belch. It feels so bad, you almost want to hurl to get it over with to feel better, wait did I just say that. You know what that means????? The slippery slope I was sliding down just tilted even more. Uh oh, here it comes, the first of the dry-heaves.

We are entering the first stages of Defcon 5.

I, trying to look non-chalantly as possible, first wiping my brow of the gleaming sweat, glance back. Frank and Tom are facing the back behind the boat. The lack of sleep is getting to them as well.

Here it comes, "MISSION CONTOL, WE HAVE A PROBLEM"

Huuuuuu, huuuuu, I try to dry heave with as little sound as possible. Matt is scanning the water for life, the two others are facing the other way.

DEFCON 5, we have launch!@#$! I gently lean over and propel the vile bile that has risen forth of my stomach. I try to aim down, as to keep the spray away from floating back into the boat with the wisps of boat wake thrown into the air. After a good minute or so, I look over, and Matt has taken no notice.

Great, now we can go back down to Defcon 4, and 3 adn get back to fishing. Wait, one last trip over the rail, and I should begin to feel better.


More to come............ If you can handle it. : )

  

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Sat. 2nd Avila Albacore Part 1 [View all] , Moondoggie, Mon Dec-04-00 04:43 PM
  RE: Sat. 2nd Avila Albacore Part 1, Rob, Dec 04th 2000, #1
RE: Sat. 2nd Avila Albacore Part 1, hookup90247, Dec 05th 2000, #2
RE: Sat. 2nd Avila Albacore Part 1, Moondoggie, Dec 06th 2000 #3
RE: Sat. 2nd Avila Albacore Part 1, CalicoHunter (Guest), Dec 06th 2000, #4
RE: Sat. 2nd Avila Albacore Part 1, jchapluk, Dec 06th 2000, #5
RE: Sat. 2nd Avila Albacore Part 1, chris (Guest), Dec 11th 2000, #6
RE: Sat. 2nd Avila Albacore Part 1, hookup90247, Dec 11th 2000, #7
      RE: Sat. 2nd Avila Albacore Part 1, Moondoggie, Dec 12th 2000, #8
           RE: Sat. 2nd Avila Albacore Part 1, Hookup90247 (Guest), Dec 12th 2000, #9

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