06-05-2013, 02:39 PM
[#0000FF]Bummer. Sorry that Mama Nature treated you so badly. But that is one of the reasons I always like to hit Starvation early. Not uncommon for those sudden blows to pop up on that lake. I have had more than a few trips shortened by "zephyrs". And most of the time they are not even part of the "forecast".
There was one tubing trip when TubeBabe and I were fishing the aforementioned calm waters and one of those raging norwesters came out of nowhere. And, within minutes our tubes were being violently blow away from where we had parked our vehicle and launched. We had to kick like crazy to fight our way into shore downwind. Then I had to hike back to the vehicle and drive to our unplanned beach site.
Thankfully, there have been plenty of other trips when we fished in calm conditions until we were ready to get off the water in early afternoon.
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There was one tubing trip when TubeBabe and I were fishing the aforementioned calm waters and one of those raging norwesters came out of nowhere. And, within minutes our tubes were being violently blow away from where we had parked our vehicle and launched. We had to kick like crazy to fight our way into shore downwind. Then I had to hike back to the vehicle and drive to our unplanned beach site.
Thankfully, there have been plenty of other trips when we fished in calm conditions until we were ready to get off the water in early afternoon.
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