Rain wind and lightning..

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Same type of weather at East Canyon. We didn't dare get in the water with our tubes. The lightning was really neat to watch cuz it was so close. I woulda felt a little safer in a boat myself. Back in 03 or 04 a few friends and i got ourselves in a real jam on Utah Lake. My buddy had a Chapparal 21' cuddy(still does) He thought we should head back but we decided to listen to Richard instead. "Awe it'll calm down in a while. Lets ride it out!". We launched out of AF Harbor around 3pm that Friday. We had taken on almost 12 " of water, the swells were so high that the hull and prop connected with the lake bottom numerous times. We all thought we were gonna die. Except for ol' Richard. He didn't have a care in the world..We all kind of came to that conclusion as we finally made our way into Lincoln Beach Harbor after 4 hours of fighting against these, what seemed liked, 4 to 10 foot swells. As we get close to the outside of the east dike we decide that because of the still large waves even in the harbor that one of us should jump with the anchor and swim it to the dike and secure it. The other one we had thrown out was far enough away that we wouldn't slam into the dike. The one on the dike would keep us from drifting back out. We thought that we should turn on the depth finder again so we could find a place for myself and them 30 lb anchor to jump overboard and we thought probably walk it to shore. HA Depth finder reads 3 feet about 50 yards out and that was close enough for Johnny. We still had 2 and 3 foot swells where we were. I jumped over and disappeared into the water. Everyone panics because i should not have disappeared in just 3 feet of water. Rob and Richard were just ready to dive in as I surface. 3 (4ltrwordendsw/ing) feet my ass! So there I was trying to tread water in 2 foot swells with a 30 lbs anchor tight in my clutches. I gave it my last go and swam as fast as I could to the dike. Laid down after I had placed the anchor and passed out........on the ground in the middle of this storm. We were scared and tired but thankful Johnny still had his boat and we had our lives. Because that night 2 people that we saw, as we were fighting the waves towards Lincoln Beach died. After the storm had passed we went to Provo boat Harbor. We had been without food and water for nearly 12 hours. After the Provo Police interviewed us and the Paramedics checked us out we learned that several boats capsized and that they watched as we went by not knowing why we didn't stop there. And this is when Richard told the Police that it would not have been safe and we definitely would have capsized. Then we learned that Richard had been a Crab fisherman in the Behring Strait for 18 years some years back. Not heading dead center against the waves and throttling up would have resulted in this little 21 foot cuddy to be flipped over nothin flat.
So Bassrods i am still on the fence on this one. It was a terrifying and sort of cool experience all at once. Not funny like the a guy I saw years back, not sure if it was a State Qualifier or Club Tourney but doin close to 75 out of horseshoe canyon out into Lynwood Bay and it was choppy as all hell. One second you see his bassboat the next time he hit water, all his lockers open up and you see him his partner and all his gear about 4 to 6 feet above the boat. Fortunately he didn't loose his bag and was able to still weigh in.
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