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Klondike_Kid
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Registered: 6-2-2008
Location: Just south of the North Pole.
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I can't recall ever having alcohol on my saltwater boat. 99% of the time the seas get too lumpy before the day is over and when its finally time to
pull anchor the horizon is sometimes disappearing in the troughs. By this time my "crew" is so green around the gills that the less they have in their
stomaches the better off everyone is. I start to worry about them going head first thru the canvas shell opening when dumping their cookies as I'm
trying to quarter four to six footers. Once their tanks are empty they pretty much sit still for the rest of the ride back to the harbor. Just
something about that 2 stroke engine exhaust, 4 foot seas and pulling the anchor off the transom by hand from 160 feet down that makes them sensitive.
Haven't figured that one out yet. 
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vandenberg
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Registered: 6-21-2005
Location: Nopolo
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Klondike Kid.
Isn't fishing fun.
Remember a time I went out of Monterey with a troop of Orientals on board. Most all of them were sick before we got out of the bay. Made for a fun
outing.
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Cypress
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Location: on the bayou
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Always have plenty of beer onboard. If the fish aren't biting it'll give
you something to do and take your mind off the expense of a "water haul".
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Klondike_Kid
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Location: Just south of the North Pole.
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Around the saltwater fleet in Alaska, with so many land lubber tourists fishing that haven't been out in more than a canoe or inner tube, you could
say Alaska is the testing grounds for every kind of gimmick and invention to prevent sea sickness. I've seen wrist bands, arm bands, ear patches,
pills, seltzer water, eating food, don't eat food, eat certain foods and not others, and the list goes on. Fortunately many of these things have not
worked and the halibut charters have not had any shortage of chum for a scent line while on anchor. As my brother put it many years ago while fishing
a salmon trolling charter with my dad out of SF Bay to the Farallons, "half the boat was too sick to fish, the other half had it down pat....Puke
& Reel~!"  There is some BIG ocean out there in that area.
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Cypress
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Was fishing with a world class talker once. He would puke, wipe his mouth, then pick up the sentence right where he was before the puking episode.
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BajaGringo
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Registered: 8-24-2006
Location: La Chorera
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Reminds me of a fishing trip many years ago with a friend who was so proud that he was one of the few who hadn't puked on that particularly rough day
at sea.
I grabbed an anchovie out of the bait tank and swallowed it whole in front of him. He was able to hold it back until I described how I could feel it
wiggling in my esophagus, all the way going down.
He and a couple of others were bent over the rail. I still enjoy giving him a hard time about that one...
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Cypress
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BajaGringo,That would be enough to make a possum puke.
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BajaKeela
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Baja Gringo...I laughed so hard I cried..You made my day..BIGTIME
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BajaGringo
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Registered: 8-24-2006
Location: La Chorera
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Mood: Let's have a BBQ!
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I know. That was back in the day when I was young and stupid. Today I am just old and stupid. I still chase an anchovie down with a beer every fishing
trip.
Some habits are just hard to break...
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Skeet/Loreto
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How to prevent Sea Sickness!
As you start to feel "whoozy" eat several Saltine Crackers while eating 1/2 of a Grapefruit>.
Short Story: On my Departure from Treasure Island aboard a Ship loaded with 1500 Airman headed for Korea, and old Salt told me of the above remedy for
Sea Sickness, which I tried and it Worked for all these years even after drinking 5 or 6 beers after catching a boatload of Yellow Tail or Dorado.
Skeet/Loreto
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Tin=Can
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So there was one trip where Bill, Fred and myself launched the boat at 5:30 am at Shelter Island. One case of beer in the cooler and took off for La
Jolla Kelp beds and no fish...back to Point Loma and ran out of beer at 8:30am. Went over to Anthony's Fish Grotto on the bay and climbed up a Tuna
Sainer and went across the street to the liquor store and got another case of beer. This sort of trip went on all day, back and forth to the liquor
store..and never got outside of the bay again...pulled the boat out of the water and 8:30pm. I'll never forget the image of Fred on the last beer run
doing donuts in the boat in front of Anthony's Fish Grotto...screaming at some chick " You don't love me anymore!"...Never caught fish all day.
But drinking was a lot of fun. Good Times! Good Times!
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Sallysouth
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Registered: 10-9-2003
Location: Capo Beach
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Mood: missing Baja...
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The Rule to our fishing days have been: Launch the boat at first light of morning.Have the sammys made the nite before(preferably YT with avo and
cheese), load the cooler with ice and beer.Make bait, and no one gets a beer before the first fish is landed!Thats my story(some of it) and I'm
stickin to it.
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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