Any tips for Sea Sickness?

[Lovey80]

Hi all, I went out just off Mooloolaba on Tuesday with a mate. We headed strait over to Old Woman Is for a quick fish before heading out a little wider. Well a little wider never came as my deckie for the day went real green just as the bites were comming. We headed back inside the harbour for a good session of Trevally to 50cm bream around 30-35 and a Morwong that went 40cm.

My question is as my mate gets sea sick every time the swell picks up, apart from drugs are there any little tricks for curing this??? I have been sea sick a few times but don't get it anymore and I'm never green like he gets.

Cheers Chris

[Nic]

He could try wrist bands from the chemist. They haven't really worked for me but they seem to do the trick for some people.

[theclick]

Yep, get on the turps and get everything out of your system before you go

Some people think the ginger works, jury is still out

[Flex]

The reason you get seasick is your inner ear is saying your are moving, yet your eyes are telling your brain you are not. So your brain doesn't quite know how to react to your environment.

The best tip for helping seasickness(aside tablets) is trying to get your brain to recognise you are moving, putting you in sync with your inner ear balance.

On a boat the only way to do it, Is to stare at the horizon. I do this all the time when i start to get sick. Just stare as hard as you can and that lets your brain know you are moving. This helps most people alot. it may not cure you totally, but it helps alot.

The worst thing you can do is be inside a boat when your sick and not have any vision of the horizon to tell your brain your moving

[onerabbit]

Lots of dry bickies to munch on on arrival at your spot, Sakata type, they will suck up the stomach acids & give your mate something to burley with if it comes.

Like Flex said, eyes to the horizon & face to the breeze, dont look at the bottom of the boat for long & if all else fails, get it out & continue fishing.

I really think in most cases it's subconcious fear of the unknown,
just my opinion.

Muzz

[Pistol_P]

Simple.....Go to the chemist and buy the tablets called Travacalm....Only buy the ones in the blue and white packet.....The natural ones (ginger) dont work.
Take one tablet 1/2 hour before and you will not get sick.
I know you said 'apart from drugs'.....But seriously this is a gaurranteed fix.
Wrist bands etc only seem to work on a few people.

Pete

[1lastcast]

As someone who can regularly supply good amounts of berley for my fellow offshore anglers i have tried lots of different things and what i find works for me is exactly what pistol pete said travacalm original tablets but you have to take them before you feel sick as once your sick nothing can help you until you arrive back at shore .
I also will try what flex said maybe that will help me when i still feel a little squirmish after taking the travelcalm
Pete

[reidy_g]

Kwells....won't go wrong. Ask for them at the chemist.

[finga]

Ah let the bugger spew...burley is good

[dazza]

hi
i'm with finga, feed him a few pillie and squid sangas and add a bit of tuna oil to his beer, spin him around 3 times and stick his head down in the bilge for 5 minutes, shortly after you should have a very good burley trail going, make sure you keep telling him it is for the good of the crew, and even though he may not think it, he is adding to the catch.

seriously though

i have fished with a few gut's and no matter what they take or do there is no way they can keep sea sickness at bay, apart from not go.
cheers
dazza

[Dunco]

I am grand master burley boy, having tried every method of releaving sea sickness.

- Travel Calm, Ginger Tablets, Kwells, Magnetic Wrist Bands, Not eating anything greasy the night before (Salad Only), Staring at the horizon (but I haven't tried in to the wind), pretty much everything.

- One Suggestion that I haven't tried is sticking gummy bears into your ears. The bloke who told me that one, might have been having a go.

I did survive one trip out to the reef on a good day and I was 20yrs old and about 20kg liter than I was on recent attempts.

My question is if anyone thinks that weight can attribute to the loss of your sea legs?????

My condition made my decision of buying a inshore boat (4.6) a lot easier.

[DR]

i have heard, from a charter boat skipper who did a charter with ear nose & throat specialists, he asked them & was told that if you are right handed you put an ear plug in your left ear..
another oldie is to fill your navel with vaseline & cover it with elastoplast..

[Argle]

Lay off the grog the night before, eat a good breakfast with a kwell, munch some dry bickies while you are out to give your stomach something to do, and the BEST thing to stave off sea sickness I have found is to CATCH MORE FISH - adrenalin is a natural sea sickness cure (or at least it is for me)

Cheers and Beers
Scott

[Alan TSV]

I did suffer from sea sickness.

Now under control

ONE EARPLUG (right ear for me)

Al

[4x4frog]

A very close family friend who I fished with right throughout my child hood was a violent seasickness sufferer. He'd get the green's as soon as we hit rough water but right on queue when we turned to come home he'd be as right as rain. Funniest thing was, he owns the boat and was the instigator of all things piscatorial.......he loves and is the most dedicated fisher I know.

No known cure as far as I can tell....even barfed his dentures up and over one time and watched them gracefully float down to Nemo's bathroom