Whats your scariest moment on the water

[Zachary Boy]

My experience was in Venice,La. We were about 12 miles down river when the FOG set in. It was high noon at 11:45. It was 'pea-soup', couldn't see 20'.. I tried to wait it out but about 3:00 PM decided to try to make it back to 'the jump'. I hugged the east bank all the way back and was willing to ditch my boat if neccessary to save me and my passengers. Well, come time to cross the river when the big ships were seeing us on radar and blowing their horns. We could not see them at all. When we finally made it to the marina I thanked the Good Lord and swore to him I would never make that mistake again.....Forgot to add that we took water over the front of my 21' bay boat about 3 times crossing the huge boat wakes, thank God for self-bailing boats as at one point we were ankle deep in water at the center console....About a month later a friend asked me if I wanted to make a 'night-run' down the river to fish the Sandy Point rigs. My question was "You have got to be kiddin me huh". He wasn't and THEY went...

[jpeff31787]

Originally Posted by Zachary Boy

My experience was in Venice,La. We were about 12 miles down river when the FOG set in. It was high noon at 11:45. It was 'pea-soup', couldn't see 20'.. I tried to wait it out but about 3:00 PM decided to try to make it back to 'the jump'. I hugged the east bank all the way back and was willing to ditch my boat if neccessary to save me and my passengers. Well, come time to cross the river when the big ships were seeing us on radar and blowing their horns. We could not see them at all. When we finally made it to the marina I thanked the Good Lord and swore to him I would never make that mistake again.....Forgot to add that we took water over the front of my 21' bay boat about 3 times crossing the huge boat wakes, thank God for self-bailing boats as at one point we were ankle deep in water at the center console....About a month later a friend asked me if I wanted to make a 'night-run' down the river to fish the Sandy Point rigs. My question was "You have got to be kiddin me huh". He wasn't and THEY went...

thats pretty scary i'd have to say!! One time we were in the fog and it was so thick, I couldn't catch gps signals, but i was in a calm bayou in the marsh so we waited it out

[fishinpox]

Originally Posted by Zachary Boy

My experience was in Venice,La. We were about 12 miles down river when the FOG set in. It was high noon at 11:45. It was 'pea-soup', couldn't see 20'.. I tried to wait it out but about 3:00 PM decided to try to make it back to 'the jump'. I hugged the east bank all the way back and was willing to ditch my boat if neccessary to save me and my passengers. Well, come time to cross the river when the big ships were seeing us on radar and blowing their horns. We could not see them at all. When we finally made it to the marina I thanked the Good Lord and swore to him I would never make that mistake again.....Forgot to add that we took water over the front of my 21' bay boat about 3 times crossing the huge boat wakes, thank God for self-bailing boats as at one point we were ankle deep in water at the center console....About a month later a friend asked me if I wanted to make a 'night-run' down the river to fish the Sandy Point rigs. My question was "You have got to be kiddin me huh". He wasn't and THEY went...

i hear ya man that river can be hell i have a similar story except we werent stuck out we were tryin to leave to go fish all we could heaer was fog horns it took us 2 hrs to get from venice marina to main pass at the river the thing we will fo to catch trout