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

[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