On the other side of the coin...I have went out in SLICK FLAT seas for a day of Snapper fishing 25 miles out....Weather man said it would be perfect....Everything wonderful....I'm talking slick as glass....Get out and start tearing in to snapper (before the limits were STUPID and it was worth it to go), Cobia, amberjack...You name it, we were in them....Boat starts bouncing up and down, no worries....breeze picks up just enough to cool us off from the 190 degree heat...no worries...then they start building....Frequency far apart...no worries....When the constant 3's start to chop up and change directions and pick up in frequency, we pick up and start in...THEN, It got bad! ankle deep water in boat, buddies bilge not working, I'm driving can't get boat to plane, circling a platform in case we have to swim, his heads down trying to fix bilge...Now he's sea sick and puking, so ABC (already been chewed) hamburger is floating on our ankles....After 5 mins of terror, bilge working...buddy still puking....get on plane and keep nose into the big one's all the way back...jogging with a compass, cause we didn't have GPS's in boats back then...That was the roughest...Coming in to belle pass we had 8' rollers that was scaring the C-Rap out of me...
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