couple years ago out of Connie (about 7-8 miles) we were hitiin em pretty hard & could see the storm coming. got a call from afriend in Bula wanting to know where we were. He was at the dock and said stay put it was worse in shore. In a matter of minutes we were in it. Black as night, lightning,downpour, couldn't see my brother sittin next to me!! or the white cooler on the bow....and couldn't get the big engine started. after doing doughnuts and getting pounded I crawled to the back and the engine finally kicked in. I had to crawl beside my bro to tell him we had power cause the noise from the storm was so loud. After riding it out for 20 minutes with lightning like a picket fence around us, soaking wet, it was over. Didn't shake till back on the trailer. Had to quit with only 8 eyes in the box. water was too choppy to finish our tickets. tomorrow was another day.  Dave

sorry you had to get involved mike.
 
i did tell him to PM me.

Mikeg, sorry can't help getting cursed at....

Commercial fishing for lobsters of the coast of Chincoteague Island VA. In 2003. We were out on a 3 day trip. On night two it was DEAD calm, 80 miles off-shore and completely dead flat, not a ripple on the water. The captain knew what was going on though with the storm system. Although we made it back to the bay by dawn, we experienced 9-13 footers on the return trip. Lets just say it gives a new meaning to hearing those guys in the Bering Sea experiences 20-30 footers... Phewwwww

Once fished the Bass Tx at the Nanticoke River in Delaware.  Fished in a deluge and lightning storm.  Bad lightning.  That day a dam broke up stream after 7 inches of rain in 4 hours.  My boat swamped twice that day.  A fish drop in the parking lot at the weighin  swam the parking area back the the river.  Yes all the way cross the lot while being chased by the guy who droped it.  On the way home, I had to swerve to miss water-mellons that had washed from adjacent fields on to the road.  Oh and to top it off, a helecopter was rescuing folks from car tops in a wallmart parking lot. 

My brother & i were fishing Oil Creek in the rain & the trout were really turned on. Where we were the road was right beside us & we were soaked- pre Gore Tex & no rain gear. A lady stoped on the road right beside us and watched us for a bit. Then she rolled down her window & calmly told us the suckers were on the wrong ends of the poles and drove off.
  I was camped on an Island on the Georgian Bay Of Lake Huron with a friend and two youngsters. My friend and I were ~20 yrs old and the youngsters ~14 yrs old. It was one of those poverty trips, you guys understand, 4 cans of beans bag of potatoes& we were going to live on fish for the rest. We had one canoe and were~ 8-10 miles from small town by boat. The first two days we had great fishing, but didn,t save any fish. Then Huricane Agnes hit & for the next three days we attempted to keep the tent over our heads. We would venture out at times and re secure the tent. We ate cold beans and bet on whose fly would cross a seam first. You see it was sleet hail and 40 ~ 60 mile per hr gusts, and we only had summer clothes. So all we did was lie on our backs in our sleeping bags & stare at them flies on the ceiling
  I used to Commercial fish on and off for years and I have seen some

Tippy, you just get cursed at b/c everyone is a Tippy hater - It is human nature to have hate for someone that is all knowning and one of the best fishermen to ever walk the tribs...:)
 
Worst fishing weather - it was cool, but we were out in MT this past summer and a nice day turned into 50-60 mph winds.  We had our own drift boats and were in the wide open - it just made me feel uneasy.  Looking back it was a cool experience though, and it led to one of the most interesting stories ever - revolving around who else, but Tippy...:)

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Tippy, you just get cursed at b/c everyone is a Tippy hater - It is human nature to have hate for someone that is all knowning and one of the best fishermen to ever walk the tribs...:)

Worst fishing weather - it was cool, but we were out in MT this past summer and a nice day turned into 50-60 mph winds.  We had our own drift boats and were in the wide open - it just made me feel uneasy.  Looking back it was a cool experience though, and it led to one of the most interesting stories ever - revolving around who else, but Tippy...:)

 
Clark Canyon reservoir was angry that day my friends....

Worst day I ever had was on my first ever trip to erie.  On day one there was a howling north wind so we decided to fish in the bay...good decision cause I heard that some boats from a bass tournament sank that day.  Day 2 was the bad one...we overslept and didnt get on the water till about noon under clear skies and no wind. 

As we left the bay I noticed that alot of boats coming back in but we dismissed it as pleasure boaters going in for lunch (bad mistake!)  We went to the cribs and started slaying the smallies. Big fish bigger then I had ever even seen at home...but then  it started getting windy.  We ignored it since the fishing was so great but when a wave came over the transom we decided to head back.  3-5 footers are especially terrifying when youve hardly seen much more then ripples before!  About halfway back it really picked up and the bilge pump died!  When I looked over and saw my buddy bucketing water for his life and puking his guts out at the same time was when it really set in. That was the most terrified i have ever been on the water. Took us an hour to make a journey that took us 10 minutes the first time. Once we made it behind the point we actually stayed out and caught several more fish that day.  That evening I drove to gander mtn and purchased the marine radio that i had refused to buy the day before because it was an "unnessary expense."

Ive actually been in worse since then but it was nowhere near as bad since I had a new boat that was built for it and had gained some experience on erie.

chipmunk

fishing off the stones into the lake at walnut creek access one night...then came the waterspout...