Going fishing for the first time on the ocean "Yikes" tomorrow

[tenderheart]

So I went to a PSA meeting last night and got talked into volunteering to go out and fish and count and tag fish out in the ocean oh my!!! Never been in the ocean. A little nervous. I'll take some dramammine first thing. wish me luck

[vandeman17]

I used to get motion sick pretty bad when I was younger but not so much anymore. My advice, besides the dramammine is to eat a nice hearty supper the night before then be aware what you eat for breakfast. I would stay away from greasy food and such. Also, I would try to stay outside in the fresh air as much as possible. For me, when I went inside to the warm, stagnant air, that is when I started to feel crappy. Good luck!

[JKEEN33]

Take one tonight then one again first thing in the morning. I don't get seasick, but a lot of guys going out on our boat do. If you take it just before getting on the boat, it doesn't have time to get into your system.

[JackOfAllTrades]

Also, I would try to stay outside in the fresh air as much as possible.

If you can, stay mid boat as much as possible. Stay away from the stern if the engines are running. Until you're used to it, the diesel/gas fumes combine with the nausia and no amount of dramamine will help. Take plenty of fluids/drink with you. Tylenol/Sun Glasses. Limit yourself to prolonged exposure to the salt/wind. You'll likely get wind burnt anyway, no need to make it bad.

-Steve

[gasman]

Take one tonight then one again first thing in the morning. I don't get seasick, but a lot of guys going out on our boat do. If you take it just before getting on the boat, it doesn't have time to get into your system.

 

[h20hunter]

Get good and drunk tonight and then have a bit of the "hair of the dog" in the morning to get you level. Then, make sure you are on the very far back area of the stern. The fumes will help sober you up.

[Sumpnneedskillin]

Get good and drunk tonight and then have a bit of the "hair of the dog" in the morning to get you level. Then, make sure you are on the very far back area of the stern. The fumes will help sober you up.

Don't forget to have 3 eggs over easy still dripping in grease, 3 or 4 pieces of greasy bacon, and several pieces of toast with lots of butter.  Wash it down with a big glass of OJ and several cups of coffee.  When your on the stern don't forget to stand next to the guy smoking a cigar.

[h20hunter]

Thats a good point. The food will help you soak up the extra booze you should be drinking while doing the work. Smoking is allowed on boats being open air and all that so you should be supportive of him and his cigar. Skip everything anyone else said. They obvoiusly don't know what they are talking about.

[vandeman17]

This thread actually made me laugh out loud which is tough. I have done the booze until like 2 in the morning and then go fishing and it wasn't fun. What made it worse is that we thought it was a good idea to order pizza at like midnight for a snack too. On top of that, it was windy with rough seas the next day... 

[h20hunter]

True story:

As a boy growing up in the midwest the men being me, brother, dad, a few uncles, neighbor dad kind of like 2nd family, and grandpa would go fish up in Lake Michagan every spring for salmon. A teacher in my dads school district ran Big Bird Charters out of Benton Harbor, MI. Well, we would drive up and crash at the hotel we stayed at every year. Well, there was this pizza joint down the street that made Chicago style deep dish. We would order the special that must have come with extra grease and double the toppings. We would hammer that baby down and then hit the rack. O'dark hundred would come and we'd all get up and head to the dock. Early in the season the 'ol lake can get a bit rolly with some pretty good swell. It was only a matter of time. Who's it gonna be.... We would motor out and Capt Jim would be drinking his usualy. Can of beer, cup of coffee. Can of beer, cup of coffee. And we would watch and wait. Every year it happened to somebody. Uncle puking over the side while I slept up in the flybridge. Other uncle the following year puking over the side to the point of exhaustion. Neighbor getting so sick one year we had to hold him up so he could real in his fish. Never happened to me, my brother, or my dad but who knows...only a matter of time. You just have to sit back and wait....who's it gonna be?

[Buckmark]

Oh and the Diesel fumes, dont forget the diesel fumes.........

[Sumpnneedskillin]

My very first underway in the Navy was a leaving San Diego for WESTPAC on a destroyer.  The night before we went out and got sloshed.  Man did manning the rails on the way out suck!  We had to stay out there until we passed 1SD which is past the Pt Loma lighthouse.  I was doing "ok" til we start to hit the ocean swells, then I turned really green around the gills.  Didn't loose it though.  That was a day later when we were off the coast in 14 ft seas.  Ups and downs are ok, side to side is ok but when you start doing the "circles"  .

[runamuk]

Get good and drunk tonight and then have a bit of the "hair of the dog" in the morning to get you level. Then, make sure you are on the very far back area of the stern. The fumes will help sober you up.

Don't forget to have 3 eggs over easy still dripping in grease, 3 or 4 pieces of greasy bacon, and several pieces of toast with lots of butter.  Wash it down with a big glass of OJ and several cups of coffee.  When your on the stern don't forget to stand next to the guy smoking a cigar.

you guys   not sure they need him her chumming   but if she follows the advice above she could get seasick on lake washington  

[h20hunter]

Diesel fumes are the best.

A few years ago the wife and I were out diving off possesion point. For whatever reason when my wife comes up from a dive she is very prone to motion sickness. I think it is something to do with her inner ear balancing or something. Well, anyway, we had made a nice bacon and egg breakfast that morning. We have a nice dive and surface to my good buddy idling nearby waiting for us. We give the all clear and good he puts over. Being a good man I wait for my wife to climb aboard first. As soon as her rump hits the deck and the hood comes off she leans over the rail and basically pukes straight on me. Being in full dive gear I just duck my head and let the egg, bacon, and chunks of toast cascade upon me. A quick dunk to cleane off and I'm good to go. Took her about 2 years to eat eggs again.

[h20hunter]

If nobody is chumming how are they gonna get the fish to come up  for tagging?

[tenderheart]

Oh thanks everyone for the good and bad advice lol...No drinking till afterwards and hopefully it will to celebrate me not getting sick. Maybe my husband will and not me that would something I could never let him live down. Im very excited and very nervous. I have always said I would never go out on the ocean not even on a cruise ship. But here I go....I love to see all these replies. hopefully I wont be and I'll be 

[vandeman17]

I couldn't help but notice your picture in the corner of your first duck hunt in othello. That should be a thread and a story by itself but I digress.  Honestly, I have found that the best way I keep myself from getting sick is mind power. I used to get really motion sick on airplanes when I was little and my old man used to always tell me, "its all in your head" and I could never figure out what he meant until later on when I did figure out that I could actually talk myself out of getting sick...

[tenderheart]

I couldn't help but notice your picture in the corner of your first duck hunt in othello. That should be a thread and a story by itself but I digress.  Honestly, I have found that the best way I keep myself from getting sick is mind power. I used to get really motion sick on airplanes when I was little and my old man used to always tell me, "its all in your head" and I could never figure out what he meant until later on when I did figure out that I could actually talk myself out of getting sick...

I have to agree with you and I will be talking to myself lol Yes i turned 50 last year and decided to take up some new things going to deer & elk (hopefully) hunt also. 50 has been great. no more off the subject sorry.

[runamuk]

I ate a small amount of breakfast and took Dramamine when I went onto the ocean for the first time I have bad vertigo in my old age and I did not yak...thought I was gonna for a few but I managed to survive, my kid turned a nice shade of green but he slept instead of chumming...then when it settled down and we started catching some fish everything was fine....

just try not to focus on top of wave.... bottom of wave...... top of wave....... bottom of wave

 fascinating as it was that is kinda nauseating

[Skillet]

I still sometimes get a little green around the gills when fishing early Ling Cod in the swell if I haven't been on the ocean in a long time.  Best advice I ever got was to take a single Dramamine (or Bonine, which is what works best for me) before I went to bed the night before.  Then take a normal dose in the morning before you head out.  Works like a champ, for me at least.

[tenderheart]

Get good and drunk tonight and then have a bit of the "hair of the dog" in the morning to get you level. Then, make sure you are on the very far back area of the stern. The fumes will help sober you up.

Don't forget to have 3 eggs over easy still dripping in grease, 3 or 4 pieces of greasy bacon, and several pieces of toast with lots of butter.  Wash it down with a big glass of OJ and several cups of coffee.  When your on the stern don't forget to stand next to the guy smoking a cigar.

Don't think I'll listen to this one..Your bad 

you guys   not sure they need him her chumming   but if she follows the advice above she could get seasick on lake washington  

[rasbo]

chew your food well before boarding...there is no cure if it gets to you, just let fly and keep your mind occupied.I feel for those that get seasick...But your not gonna..Have a blast

[Blacklab]

Dramamine has two side affects.

1) It makes ya sleepy

2) It wares off

[lokidog]

I ate a small amount of breakfast and took Dramamine when I went onto the ocean for the first time I have bad vertigo in my old age and I did not yak...thought I was gonna for a few but I managed to survive, my kid turned a nice shade of green but he slept instead of chumming...then when it settled down and we started catching some fish everything was fine....

just try not to focus on top of wave.... bottom of wave...... top of wave....... bottom of wave

 fascinating as it was that is kinda nauseating

Your description is so good, it's like I was there....   

Heading from Oly to Westport to salmon fish, my saying was take your dramamine in Aberdeen. 

I have never upchucked but have felt pretty crappy out there, one trip for two months on a 76' boat, I felt like crap most of every day.  I do think a person will do best to have a good solid breakfast, I usually feel worse when I am hungry.  Also, if you start feeling yucky and get tired, by all means, take a nap.  It always seemed to stabilize my equilibrium enough to eat a meal.

What kind of fish are you tagging and how are you catching them?

[sisu]

Also, I would try to stay outside in the fresh air as much as possible.

If you can, stay mid boat as much as possible. Stay away from the stern if the engines are running. Until you're used to it, the diesel/gas fumes combine with the nausia and no amount of dramamine will help. Take plenty of fluids/drink with you. Tylenol/Sun Glasses. Limit yourself to prolonged exposure to the salt/wind. You'll likely get wind burnt anyway, no need to make it bad.

-Steve

hahahahaha so frickin' true. Damn Steve you popped a memory cell from Bristol Bay. We'd eaten a *censored*ty breakfast of cold pancakes and peanut butter smeared on top. It was the skippers day to cook and he cooked like crap. We were working BIG rollers in a heavy rain, and getting a fair amount of fish on each set. I distinctly remember seeing waves coming over the bow and washing us down, I looked at my feet where there were about 40-50 fish on the deck as we hadn't thrown them in the brailers for some reason, probably because we were rolling so bad. Any way I blew breakfast all over the salmon. Once I did then the other picker did the same and finally our first mate who was laughing at first blew his lunch too! Good thing the rollers were breaking over the bow cause they washed the salmon clean before we threw them in the brailers.

[bowtech721]

If nobody is chumming how are they gonna get the fish to come up  for tagging?

great point 

[sisu]

chew your food well before boarding...there is no cure if it gets to you, just let fly and keep your mind occupied.I feel for those that get seasick...But your not gonna..Have a blast

Chewing well is a good idea that way no chunks get caught in your nose in case there is so much volume coming that it finds a detour around your mouth.   

[GregE]

Man, what a rough crowd.   

Hope your trip went well.

[tenderheart]

Ok got the dramamine..Have some butterflies in my tummy hopefully they wont come up tomorrow lol think this might be a  Thanks for all the great comments you have me laughing hard...Until tomorrrow any ways

[brew]

my advice is to make sure you take your false teeth out before puking-my buddies dad lost his set over the rail a couple years ago up at La Push and on the same trip ripped a major hernia from blowing chunks. don't feel bad cuz it happens to a lot of people who've never gotten sea sick before----it just happens...about 15 years ago my wife and i went to westport to bottom fish for my birthday (end of april) and the entire trip out i was chumming constantly----that was the only time i've ever gotten seasick in the 20+ years i've been on the ocean.  that trip was only my wife, me and another woman but i kept fishing and pouring water into me so i had something to puke up...after we got our limits and were on our way back in the captain gave me a free pass for the next time i came out with him cuz he was impressed i stuck it out.  hope you have a good time but don't worry if you get sick....happens to the best of us

[rainshadow1]

Give my regards to the chum gods... it's been a long time!

(Spent the first 22 years of my life contributing to the biomass.)

If you're prone to motion sick, just go with it. If you're not, you'll be fine, don't sweat it. Many seasick people psych themselves into it. Half of them would be fine if they hadn't spent so much time wringing their hands over it.

[ICEMAN]

I have been sick many a time on the ocean.    There is no worse feeling in the world than sea sickness. Been just on the edge of blowing chunks many many times and go up to the bow to get fresh air and some jackazz lights up a smoke near me. I threatened him  and was not nice at all about it....     Seasickness really brings out your alter-self...

I remember setting on the bow up by the captains window watching my salmon rod almost snap with a huge chinook tearing line off it and not caring in the world... "F#$& it, who cares...!"   This is not like me.... 

I finally started wearing Scopolomine Transderm tabs behind the ear. A prescription mediction you apply the day before your trip, this helped alot....

Hope your trip went well....

[cohoho]

I went on an awesome Halibut trip years ago, water so bad (one arm under the railing to stay standing and the other on the rod) all five of my friends that went along and even the deck hand were spewing.. For the full 8 hours.... Me and the Captain were rolling in the fish, we had a great time, but man did the cabin stink....

[MikeWalking]

This reminds me of my first Salmon trip with Dad and his friend Ray. For hours the night before and all the way to Westport from Rays cabin, somewhere not too far he kept nagging me to take the dramamine.   I asked how come he wasn't?  He turned his nose up  "I was a Sailor in the War, I crossed the Pacific twice, I heard Tokyo Rose say my ship had been sunk while sailing to Guam"  blahblahblah.....guess who couldn't stop puking when those rollers hit....

[tenderheart]

  YAY I didn't get sick...Had a great time. We saw whale and several skools of dolpins...Between 7 of us we caught over 350 Black Rock Fish tagged em scanned em and let em go. Some didn't make it so we have lots to eat. What a blast can't wait to go again. The weather ws beautiful NO rain sun the whole time. 

[Thenewguy]

I shouldn't of fread this thread while eating a hangover breakfast

[dogtuk]

YAY I didn't get sick...Had a great time. We saw whale and several skools of dolpins...Between 7 of us we caught over 350 Black Rock Fish tagged em scanned em and let em go. Some didn't make it so we have lots to eat. What a blast can't wait to go again. The weather ws beautiful NO rain sun the whole time. 

No pics darn it its always a great time on the ocean I love it out there

[tenderheart]

Here are some pics. It was a blast

[carpsniperg2]

Very cool

[Huntbear]

That is sooooo awesome...

I love bottom fishing in the ocean.

[h20hunter]

So? Did you make it without heaving ho? Good pics by the way.

[tenderheart]

So? Did you make it without heaving ho? Good pics by the way.

I did NOT get sick. It was a blast ans can't wait to do it again.

[GregE]

Very nice pictures-    glad you went and didn't listen to the wrong advice group.