O...M...G... Those water bumps were crazy last night, What was I thinking??! Going out of the Dana Pt. Harbor, the waves were just pouring over the breakwall at high tide, when I first saw them I should have thought twice about it but I didn't. Got out there at 6:30 or so. Rain rain and more rain. Every pull was 2-3 bugs.
50 bugs later (about 10 of them no bigger than my hand!) I was about to bring em in at around 3:45 then the harbor patrol came out and recommended that I not be out there, perhaps I should have listened to them but Why didn't they stop me from going out in the first place or when the waves were ACTUALLY dangerous. It was dying down at that point. They also told me I was fishing to close to the mouth of the harbor, I should have just called it a bight at this point but decided to move them all to the outer buoy line.
Just as I dropped my last hoop, the wind gusted REALLY hard! Come to find out it wasn't the wind blowing ME it was a wave carrying me with it just before it turned me over and swamped me, That's when I knew I had made a bad decision to stay.
Well, that just plain sucked, all along with no one to help but I managed to right the yak and just hung on it for a minute.... then the next wave came. Shit.
Got back on and paddled my ass outta that region. Grabbed all of my hoops and limped home. Went to Jack in the Box and ordered like 10 tacos and drove home and thanked the man above for saving me.
Interesting night, Next time I'll keep check the reports or go out with a buddy, sure am glad I'm telling the story and not part of the 10 o'clock news.
03-02-2014, 08:28 PM
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