Re: A Reminder to all Pymy Fishermen
2014/05/04 20:27:07
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It's all about having a healthy respect. You have to know your limitations as well as your boat's.
You keep an eye on the weather and you will be fine, it you can't head for the docks, you head to an island and sit it out.
This lake isn't for those banana peel boats. It's a shallow lake, like Mosquito. You can be rolling whitecaps and go down to Shenango resevoir and the deeper lake that sits down in a hollow will just have a chop.
Fished this lake for over fifty years, and have never been in that bad of a situation. I have had to cut anchor ropes, when they wouldn't come up and the storm was coming, and I've had to scoot to an island and sit under the pines, but I've never allowed myself to be in that kind of situation.
I'm glad everyone was ok and they at least had their life vests on, but the lake was rolling white before that squall.
I watched a guy put his bass boat in on Friday, and as he was backing it in, the waves were splashing up over the transom. That, my friend, should have been the first clue!
"Fair winds and following seas..."