Post by outtadblue on Jul 22, 2019 12:39:05 GMT -5
My uncle has a saying “better to be on land wishing you were fishing than to be fishing, wishing you were on land”. Saturday was one of those days. My plan was to run 90 miles sw to the mouth of the MS river and sword fish most of the day, then hit a rig where my brother n law works late for tuna and mahi. He had been texting me all week that they were killing the tuna at his oil rig. We left the dock at daylight with grand plans to fish all day and be back in around midnight with a boat load of fish.
The weather forecast was giving less than 1 foot seas with a 20% chance of scattered showers. Looked at radar on tv before we left and saw rain stretching from New Orleans to Pensacola. We decided to push through it and fish. It was moving north and where we wanted to fish was south of the rain anyway.
It it was not too bad for the first 70 miles, just light rain and 1-2 foot seas. I ran with the radar on and dodged most of the worst storms, but we had one just before our spot to go through. It was raining pretty hard and the wind was blowing 20 knots. Seas kicked up to 4 feet and it felt like we were in a washing machine. We pushed through and found a blue sky and a relatively calm sea. Made our first drop for a sword and got bit pretty quick. Came tight and was reeling it in, then nothing. Pulled hook. While I was reeling the line in from 1800 feet, the storm we pushed through decided to back up. It was bearing down on us. It hit about the time I got the line in. We decided to hell with fishing on this day and pointed her north. We fought our way through 3-4 foot angry seas and a monsoon of a rain for 3 hours. Got to within 10 miles of land and it calmed.
Long day day with nothing to show for our troubles except a wet ass. The boat handled every fine, but we t was a long wet journey. It’s not always full fish boxes on the Outta D Blue.
The weather forecast was giving less than 1 foot seas with a 20% chance of scattered showers. Looked at radar on tv before we left and saw rain stretching from New Orleans to Pensacola. We decided to push through it and fish. It was moving north and where we wanted to fish was south of the rain anyway.
It it was not too bad for the first 70 miles, just light rain and 1-2 foot seas. I ran with the radar on and dodged most of the worst storms, but we had one just before our spot to go through. It was raining pretty hard and the wind was blowing 20 knots. Seas kicked up to 4 feet and it felt like we were in a washing machine. We pushed through and found a blue sky and a relatively calm sea. Made our first drop for a sword and got bit pretty quick. Came tight and was reeling it in, then nothing. Pulled hook. While I was reeling the line in from 1800 feet, the storm we pushed through decided to back up. It was bearing down on us. It hit about the time I got the line in. We decided to hell with fishing on this day and pointed her north. We fought our way through 3-4 foot angry seas and a monsoon of a rain for 3 hours. Got to within 10 miles of land and it calmed.
Long day day with nothing to show for our troubles except a wet ass. The boat handled every fine, but we t was a long wet journey. It’s not always full fish boxes on the Outta D Blue.