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Looks like a great weekend - 8/8/2008 11:13:50 AM

bulldog1

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2-4's, 3-5's, waterspouts and thunderstorms, sounds fun!

Anyone else getting tired of this weather? My wife just doesn't get it, 80 degrees and sunny and can't figure out why I'm not on the lake. Guess I'll have to take her out in some 5 footers some time, then again probably not. The good part is that she now expects me to be on the lake more than the lawn mower. I'll call that progress.

I'll be watching it close to see if there's any improvement, good luck if you venture out!

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/8/2008 11:14:55 AM

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haha yeah... my girlfriend thinks I fish alot as it is... wait till Novemeber. She's gonna be pissed! lol

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/8/2008 11:50:40 AM

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Welcome to "Great Lakes" fishing! Just like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get!

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/8/2008 10:45:38 PM

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Do most guys have a magic cut off number (in wave height) where most guys just decide it is not worth it or downright dangerous?

I could see how you could easily and quickly get yourself in trouble on that big water, even in the summer months when the water is warm!

Brent

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/8/2008 10:52:47 PM

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Your safer in the ocean than in the great lakes. I've seen some angry water , but nothing compared to the great lakes.

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/8/2008 11:12:27 PM

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I prefer 2 to 3 footers or less. 4 footers, I will fish in....If I know there will be anything bigger before I go (thats pretty much NEVER with our forecasters), I won't go. However, if I'm already out there, and it kicks up to 4+ and 5s or more, I've often roughed it as much as I could before deciding when enough is enough. It also depends a lot on who is fishing with me. IMO anything 4+ is downright uncomfortable in any size boat!

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/8/2008 11:37:15 PM

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Ill fish 5's if im already out there...not alot of fun bucking those waves for 10miles, but have done it on more than several occasions...lol Some of my best days fishing are during these less than perfect conditions...

Like I always say on the way out in snotty stuff, "were gonna take a beating, but its not the first time, and certainly not the last..."

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/9/2008 12:23:25 AM

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quote:

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Do most guys have a magic cut off number (in wave height) where most guys just decide it is not worth it or downright dangerous?
I could see how you could easily and quickly get yourself in trouble on that big water, even in the summer months when the water is warm!
Brent

2 ft or less is ideal. 4's aren't fun. Anything higher and you need to be on a big boat and you probably won't enjoy fishing from it. One also has to watch where the winds are coming from. If coming from the west, for example, waves can pick up quickly.

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/9/2008 12:26:16 AM

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four foot slow rollers are fun, even in a 16 foot med v with a 9.9. But I was young.

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/9/2008 12:33:43 PM

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Last week, in a first attempt at it. I had no trouble with big rollers or even the larger sized waves made choppy by a stiffer wind. The PFBC station at Walnut had the waves listed at 1-3' Sunday pm when we were headed home. The worst time seemed to be Last Saturday early morning, after the strong T-storm hit downtown Erie. I had a bunch of trouble on the way out and my partner decided we needed to head back once we got the whole way out on the perch pack. I guess that different people are effected differently (no surprise). We were also in a 16' V boat with a 21" transom. If I fished the lake with any regularity. I would hunt down an 18-20' boat with a windshild and all controls located in the front third of the boat. It also appeared to me that unless the water is really flat, a big motor is as usless as a poopy flavored lollipop! Yeah, you can try to plane on the toop of the chop but you just beat your guts out?

Brent

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/9/2008 1:45:27 PM

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Welcome to "Great Lakes" fishing! Just like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get!

That's LAKE ERIE fishing. NEVER NICE LAKE ERIE. I think someday I am going to retire from Erie and do all my fishing on Ontario. When the wave report says less than 1s, they MEAN less than 1s, like ripples or glass. WAY NICER to fish, and the fish are a LOT bigger!

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/9/2008 5:47:33 PM

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Last week, in a first attempt at it. I had no trouble with big rollers or even the larger sized waves made choppy by a stiffer wind. It also appeared to me that unless the water is really flat, a big motor is as usless as a poopy flavored lollipop! Yeah, you can try to plane on the top of the chop but you just beat your guts out?

Brent

Running an underpowered boat on Lake Erie is on of the most dangerous things you can do, when you cant power up out of trough , you stand the chance of getting overtaken by the next following wave or pitchpoling, just because you have the power you dont have to use it, but when you need it, its available, also any small boat on big water with an open transom is iffy at best, Buy a suitable boat, power it adequately and use your head concerning lake conditions and the speed you run in those conditions

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/9/2008 6:26:14 PM

leadmen

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ive been on that lake in a 14ft ,and some how lived to tell about it one time it took 8hrs to get in i dont know how we did it but we are still married and she still boats not as much we now went out and got a 29ft we have a 16ft and she dont go on that ,but now we have got wiser have 2motors to push her around so i would say if you want to play on erie get a sub its a safe bet but if you want do at least a 22ft if you can get a kicker a 25hp is good long shaft if possable just a good word of advice ive been doing that lake for 23yrs and have seen peeps go down hate to be so long winded but some articals i hate to read

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/9/2008 10:55:55 PM

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bluntman,

I saw what you are talking about. Near full throttle just to power out of a trough to go back to neutral or low speed to roll off of the other side. I can understand how, since you laid it out, being underpowered is dangerous. I have never been on any other body of water where you are driving along at a resonable pace and you see, or worse, fall into a 5' hole. I was not impressed with the performance of the boat that we took, neither was its owner! I realize that I have A LOT to learn about that piece of water.

Brent

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/10/2008 8:25:45 PM

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bluntman,

I saw what you are talking about. Near full throttle just to power out of a trough to go back to neutral or low speed to roll off of the other side. I can understand how, since you laid it out, being underpowered is dangerous. I have never been on any other body of water where you are driving along at a resonable pace and you see, or worse, fall into a 5' hole. I was not impressed with the performance of the boat that we took, neither was its owner! I realize that I have A LOT to learn about that piece of water.

Brent

Take a USPS boating course, it will be the best time you will ever invest in your boating future, heres the link to search for a class near you

http://www.usps.org/cgi-bin-nat/eddept/cfind.cgi

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/11/2008 9:26:44 AM

bulldog1

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Was anyone out this weekend, or were the wave reports right? 4-6's just sounds painful.

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/11/2008 11:52:58 AM

sstaz69

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I went out Saturday morning, the lake was fairly calm but started kicking up in the afternoon. We came in around 2:30 and they were about 4's and building.

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RE: Looks like a great weekend - 8/11/2008 3:50:56 PM

bulldog1

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I'm gonna quit lookin'. I was actually thinking that next weekend was looking decent, now we're up from 2' or less to 1-3's already at that rate there will be 12 footers by Saturday, lol.

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