Sea sickness

[elkslayer069]

Just wondering if anybody has any advise on the matter I've been ocean fishing 3 times first time I didn't take anything the second time I took daramine the third time I used a old patch somebody gave me. I'd like to go again I had a blast except for the 

[Magnum_Willys]

Buddy always wears the patch

[Eric M]

Take Bonine 12-24 hours before you go and again an hour before you leave. Bring pretzels. Stay away from coffee. Too much acid if you are prone to getting sick.

[syoungs]

Isn't there a prescription strength something or other that works awesome?

[fishngamereaper]

Scopace but it makes some drowsy.  Try candy ginger. Ginger is a natural anti nausea supplement. Bonine works pretty good to.

[Eric M]

  forgot about ginger. Lots of guys that get sick will drink ginger ale.

[trophyhunt]

I have the answer for you!!!!!!!  I know how bad seasickness can be, I get sick looking at the ocean.  I've done everything possible to try to avoid it, everything!  Dramamine, the patch, bonine, all make me feel like a zombie.  So, last year I went to neah bay bottom fishing, told my doctor that I needed an anti nausea pill.  It worked like a charm!!  I was so happy I wanted to dance on the water, felt a little sick at the end of the trip when we tried fishing by the light house and it was stupid rough water.  But once we went back to calmer water I started feeling better. Visteril, that is name of your savior drug!!!  I'm going back in a couple weeks for the opener at neah bay, and I will be enjoying myself instead of puking and feeling like crap.

[trophyhunt]

forgot about ginger. Lots of guys that get sick will drink ginger ale.

Not for me, took ginger pills for a week before I went fishing, no go for me.

[Skillet]

I can get seasick in rough wx and big seas - I use the scopalamine patch at the beginning of a trip if I haven't been to sea for a while.  It's good for three days, my body is totally acclimated by that point and I have no issues after the patch wears off.  Doesn't make me drowsy at all like Dramamine does.  Need a couple a year and I'm set.

[ribka]

1 bonine night before

1/2 in the morning before trip.

grate fresh ginger (not pills) in a thermos with herbal tea or water and a little sugar. Sip while fishing.

never have been seasick and have been in really rough seas

[trophyhunt]

Again, just go get some visteril from your doctor. 

[lokidog]

  Sounds like a good idea.

I don't have much issue, but always took my dramamine (or equivalent) in Aberdeen on the way to Westport for fishing just because I don't even like any discomfort.  I was seasick for two months once on an albacore boat, never puked though, gack....

Which leads me to this advice, do not go out on an empty stomach, you might think this would help the puke factor, but it is better to be moderately full.

I had a girlfriend in San Diego that used one of those button type pressure point bracelets and swore by it.

[elkslayer069]

Thanks guys a bunch I normally do the fish puke sleep repeat process I'll talk to the doc about the perception stuff I figured there must of been something 

[Duckslayer89]

Bonine is my favorite. Not as drowsy as Dramamine. Crush them up in your mouth rub it on your bottom lip hits right away. I'd take like 3 if I started feeling sick. That and some caffeine fish all day

[bradslam]

I commercial fished in Alaska for 14 years and would get sick depending on various factors including the individual boat I was on, the sea conditions, and what smells I was exposed to (bacon frying, diesel exhaust, etc.).  Of course, the first trip of the year was the worst.  The only thing that worked for me was the Scopolamine patch.  It made my mouth dry, but that's about it.  Sure beat being sick. 

Now that marijuana is legal, that would be another option if you are so inclined.  A friend of mine who was a skipper of a seine boat in SE Alaska had a bad sea sickness problem and that is how he dealt with it.  I guess it works great for it.