Every time I take out new people fishing off the Sunshine Coast as soon as we pull up they are vomiting. That ocean swell just gets to them even when it's glassy calm.
I don't feel comfortable sitting out there for hours while they feel sick so it kinda puts a damper on the fishing trip. I am OK I used to get sea sick years ago but not now it would take a lot to make me sick. Do other people experience this? Do you reckon it's something that ceases with more trips out on the water?
Get em to take a swim... Or stop drinking joy the night before...Originally Posted by seashawgal
Load em up on Travacalm. Really is brilliant stuff
Kids who Hunt and Fish, Don't Deal and Steal.
Agree,Travacalm blue.....saves a lot of early finishes.
1 box travel carm 24 tablets $14 1 days fishing around $200 I would spend $14 to enjoy my $200 dollar outing common sense really
We get out most weekends and a mate of mine who has his own boat and lives on the water eats travel carms like lollies. The one day it was perfect he said I will right today got sick and popped his little pill, so guess some people get used to it some don't.
When I was 19 I went on a charter with some blokes from work. I was okay heading out, but on the first drop i started spewing. I didn't stop spewing for 8 hours. Worst time of my life lol. At no point did I ask to be taken back I just assumed it was unwritten law that your there till the death. I never went offshore again until I had my own boat so if thing got bad I could just up and leave ( being the skipper and all 😀now there's two boxes of travel calm in the boat at all times and haven't been sick once. So in conclusion, if your not sure if you gonna be sick and don't take the tablets as a precaution, then tough S. There's no way I'd leave cause someone's sick, some of you gents are way too kind. (Unless it was the missus. But then only if the fish weren't on the bite 😀
That's a nice fish you caught... Do you mind if I use it for bait.
What a bunch of wooses, never been seasick yet, then again I dont eat greasy food at breakfast or drink alcohol on the day or night before.
Take Travelcalm or whatever floats your boat to ward off that feeling
A lot of people from Victoria only fish the bay, protected from winds...when asked have they been to sea before, they say "yeah mate, I've fished Port Phillip Bay"...phft....phft... phft I say...When they came outside and faced the real thing, ohhhh burley up lads but make sure you're down wind, nothing spoils a sanga or ice water when someone else's spew comes flinging on your sanga or ice water.
Bondy
Just feed your crew Sardines and Tuna and all will be well
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Have you done much fishing on PPB Bondy?
Kwell work well. Leigh
Kwells. Nothing else works for me.
Gon Fishun
What's PPB?
I'm not into crystal balls so I cannot understand what you are conveying.
I'm an Ex trawlerman and worked on a dropliner on Taupo and Barco Seamounts, (Halfway between Port Stephens and Lord Howe Island) And yes, I've been in 5 Metre swell with sloppy sea on top...heading back to port (in the Remanents of Ex Cyclone Nancy with a Low pressure system convergence from the south) A good 15 hours of riding the swell, crashing waves and securing the boom mast at various times with rain that felt like hail pelting down. Never got seasick but never ventured back out there again either, a lot of work, effort put in for amount of fish caught, only to be paid crap money. The company that owned the vessel had an entire crew walkoff many years ago for non payment of wages and had a bad reputation amongst the commerical ops
Also been on a 13ft tinnie from Victoria Point to North Straddie in crap conditions (worked with tunnel netters) on that day. 2 metre swell and choppy seas
Over 40 years of fishing, spearfishing and underwater hockey (Octopush) combined
Bondy
Port Phillip Bay Bondy.
I envy people that have had experiences like yours. You don't often hear about them.
Cheers.
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