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daugen
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As for the video...The times I have encountered not as severe but similar conditions is when there is a very strong current/tide that is running opposite of the wind/seas...in some sort of inlet of pass...
Oh to live by an inlet and watch the passing scene.
And then you get that wonderful yet scary thing called a standing wave. A seriously big wave that just sits there, not moving it seems, acting like a wall of water in your way. supposedly three to four hours later it subsides when the tide turns, to normal inlet nastiness, but if seems these guys sure didn't want to wait. This is when you are very, very happy you changed your Racor fuel filters before you went out, as being in that washing machine with working engines is scary enough. Have the engine go out, you are really toast. I'd hang it up if I ever tried an inlet like that, but then I would simply wait offshore pointed out and try not to get sick until the seas subsided and I could come in. Only done this a few times, never tried the big inlets in NC, and certainly not like the West Coast ones. And never hope to.
Those fishing boats must have some serious ballast down low to stay upright in these conditions. I saw the one boat's spreader get into the water, that's not good for steering.
Now Bird's comment has me thinking back into the 50's when we'd go down to the local "co-op" food store, and there would always be fresh fish.
No tilapia or designer fish, just cod, flounder and trout once in a while, salmon, shrimp, and catfish. My parents liked it, my father loved to shuck clams and it didn't seem "so expensive". Maybe it was and I just didn't know better.
We used to eat a lot of raw shellfish, loved the intense salty bite of a fresh clam. No more. Sorry little guys, you're getting steamed from now on.
Not rubberized, but cooked. And I guess heavy metals don't cook out well, but at least the nasty bacteria does.
But if it means my salmon has to have eel DNA to get it down to six bucks a pound, well, yuk. IMHO eels are the grossest looking things, slimey beyond belief, crammed in those wooden crates wriggling around. And yes, I'm sure "good eating" to some, certainly overseas. You eat what you can catch. I just couldn't scrub one of those things enough to get it in my mouth.
Well, how about some cheap NE lobster for all of us? I'm told there's actually a glut of the stuff, or was, which sounds good by itself to witness a fishery recuperating. Or maybe they just all crawled back from Bermuda...
Believe it or not, lobster is the only thing I've read about being a good deal, though not for the guys catching it, and somehow, like our gas at the pump, what we pay doesn't seem to have much contact with reality.
Oh to live by an inlet and watch the passing scene.
And then you get that wonderful yet scary thing called a standing wave. A seriously big wave that just sits there, not moving it seems, acting like a wall of water in your way. supposedly three to four hours later it subsides when the tide turns, to normal inlet nastiness, but if seems these guys sure didn't want to wait. This is when you are very, very happy you changed your Racor fuel filters before you went out, as being in that washing machine with working engines is scary enough. Have the engine go out, you are really toast. I'd hang it up if I ever tried an inlet like that, but then I would simply wait offshore pointed out and try not to get sick until the seas subsided and I could come in. Only done this a few times, never tried the big inlets in NC, and certainly not like the West Coast ones. And never hope to.
Those fishing boats must have some serious ballast down low to stay upright in these conditions. I saw the one boat's spreader get into the water, that's not good for steering.
Now Bird's comment has me thinking back into the 50's when we'd go down to the local "co-op" food store, and there would always be fresh fish.
No tilapia or designer fish, just cod, flounder and trout once in a while, salmon, shrimp, and catfish. My parents liked it, my father loved to shuck clams and it didn't seem "so expensive". Maybe it was and I just didn't know better.
We used to eat a lot of raw shellfish, loved the intense salty bite of a fresh clam. No more. Sorry little guys, you're getting steamed from now on.
Not rubberized, but cooked. And I guess heavy metals don't cook out well, but at least the nasty bacteria does.
But if it means my salmon has to have eel DNA to get it down to six bucks a pound, well, yuk. IMHO eels are the grossest looking things, slimey beyond belief, crammed in those wooden crates wriggling around. And yes, I'm sure "good eating" to some, certainly overseas. You eat what you can catch. I just couldn't scrub one of those things enough to get it in my mouth.
Well, how about some cheap NE lobster for all of us? I'm told there's actually a glut of the stuff, or was, which sounds good by itself to witness a fishery recuperating. Or maybe they just all crawled back from Bermuda...
Believe it or not, lobster is the only thing I've read about being a good deal, though not for the guys catching it, and somehow, like our gas at the pump, what we pay doesn't seem to have much contact with reality.