Between the lines

[GreenPig]

After fishing for 6, 8, or 10 hours in heavy winds/waves, my truck tends to wander between the white and yellow(center) lines while driving home. I maintain my lane, I just use my whole lane. Have any of y'all experienced this? IT'S NOT ALCOHOL INDUCED. 

[Jar11591]

Oh yes. During the summer, the drive home after being on the boat for 10 hours in the beating sun after being up at 3:30 am always required a fresh coffee for the road. This time of year it’s not quite so bad, but in the summer the drives home can be brutal. 

[A-Jay]

Not sure if I'm getting what you mean.

Is your truck swerving or perhaps your boat trailer ?

If you're referring to fatigue being a factor, I totally get that.

Fatigue is the arch enemy and the root cause of a high percentage of 'accidents';

of all kinds.  Professionally & recreationally.

I am very done being 'tired' behind the wheel.

Changed my ways a long time ago after losing a close friend who was driving home on leave.

Besides keeping myself in shape,

I always bring & eat food and stay hydrated,

AND

use the 1/3 - 2/3 rule.

I will use what I feel like is 1/3 of my capacity to get there & fish.

Allows for 2/3 of my human gas tank to get me home safely.

(as well as not taking some other innocent driver/whole family with me). 

Promised my wife and I hold myself accountable.

I fish a lot more HALF DAYS now. 

Stay Safe.

A-Jay

 

[Darth-Baiter]

You mean it’s a “motion of the ocean” kinda thing?   Not while driving. But when I’m laying down to sleep. 

[Jar11591]

40 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

I fish a lot more HALF DAYS now. 

Yep. I used to fish from sun-up to sundown, and be completely GASSED on the drive home.  Don’t do it much anymore. If there is any question that I will be too tired to drive home, I call it a day right then. Especially on those days where I’m driving 45+ mins to the lake. 

[Spankey]

If I go south a bit and fish some tidal I stay overnight. Driving down and fishing a true day is enough for me. Try to catch some dinner, get some zzz’s than head back in the am. Or fish a few hours the next day and head home. Back some years ago I was fishing out of Turkey Point. Everything was going real well. Than the wind picked up and the chop had water over my  bow. I pulled the plug on that day. I felt seasick before the chop ever got that bad. 

[volzfan59]

I'm with @Jar11591, I'm pretty much a half day guy nowadays. Six hours is pretty much my maximum. Used to go daylight to dark.

[Bird]

It actually goes into the next day for me, seriously.

Feel like I'm drinking coffee on a wake board....... it's not funny.

[gim]

I used to start walleye fishing right at midnight with my brother when the season would open. We’d get to our spot shortly before midnight and drop our lighted slip bobbers in right when the season opened. We’d fish until twilight (about 5am) and then drive home. The drive home was about an hour and I often drew the short straw. I always saved a Mountain Dew for that drive but I found myself nodding off multiple times. We had some dynamite fishing but looking back at those drives home, it probably was not a good idea. I was younger and had more energy back then though too.

 

Make good decisions on the road and with your vehicles. Fishing an extra hour or two isn’t worth it if you are struggling on the drive home.

[GreenPig]

3 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Not sure if I'm getting what you mean.

Is your truck swerving or perhaps your boat trailer ?

If you're referring to fatigue being a factor, I totally get that.

Fatigue is the arch enemy and the root cause of a high percentage of 'accidents';

of all kinds.  Professionally & recreationally.

I am very done being 'tired' behind the wheel.

Changed my ways a long time ago after losing a close friend who was driving home on leave.

Besides keeping myself in shape,

I always bring & eat food and stay hydrated,

AND

use the 1/3 - 2/3 rule.

I will use what I feel like is 1/3 of my capacity to get there & fish.

Allows for 2/3 of my human gas tank to get me home safely.

(as well as not taking some other innocent driver/whole family with me). 

Promised my wife and I hold myself accountable.

I fish a lot more HALF DAYS now. 

Stay Safe.

A-Jay

 

I think it's my inner ear due to bobbing around all day/night on the front deck. It's not fatigue or dehydration. My brain is still bobbing around.

[A-Jay]

7 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

I think it's my inner ear due to bobbing around all day/night on the front deck. It's not fatigue or dehydration. My brain is still bobbing around.

 

Maybe a type of vertigo ?

or it could be a tuma  , . .

A-Jay

 

[PondProwler9000]

33 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

 

Maybe a type of vertigo ?

or it could be a tuma  , . .

A-Jay

 

d**n...

[GreenPig]

2 minutes ago, PondProwler9000 said:

d**n...

Right! Well atleast he's not picking on my pinky finger in my pics.?

[TnRiver46]

Mine doesn’t start until I lay down, but the sloshing does put me right to sleep haha

[scaleface]

I have not experienced that fishing  , then driving but I get it . My first full-time  job after graduating was on an assembly line . When they shut the belt down , the world appeared to rotate the opposite direction   .

[Kev-mo]

After my one and only weeklong cruise experience it took like a week after for me to stop swaying like I was still on the ship. So yeah sorta....can't remember if it affected my driving tho.

[Phelptwan]

For me I don't really notice it until I hit the shower...and then realize I'm still swaying like I'm moving with the boat on the water.

[Bankc]

On 10/4/2022 at 8:07 PM, GreenPig said:

I think it's my inner ear due to bobbing around all day/night on the front deck. It's not fatigue or dehydration. My brain is still bobbing around.

You gotta get your sea legs!  Seriously though, learn to absorb the waves with your hips and legs.  After a while, it'll come naturally.  Keeping your head still in space while letting your body move will stop that from happening.  Of course, the waves can still get too big and you won't have enough range of motion to counteract them all.  But if you keep your knees bent pretty good in bad weather, you'll give yourself a lot more range.  With enough time on the water and experience in high waves, your brain will adapt and you won't feel it even when you're knocked around more than you can counteract.  This used to happen to me a lot.  But it's always windy here, and I'm always out on a kayak, so eventually my brain has adjusted to the point where it doesn't affect me.
 

And oddly enough, this is something that I recently thought about.  A while back I remember being on the water for a long day in really rough weather and was afraid this would happen to me when I got back to the ramp.  But no.  I remember being impressed with my ability to stand up in pretty bad weather on my kayak, and not being uncomfortable at all.  I was even peeing over the side and not concerned about the big waves and wind coming up behind me, which would have frighted me something fierce a few years ago.  

[AlabamaSpothunter]

I deck handed a center console in Orange Beach during the summers....one day we had to beat two converging storms in, and at one point the captain's friend has a picture of us with the prop clear out of the water.

 

Long story short, hours after we had arrived home, me and the captain are standing in Subway line and I look at him and ask him if he still feels like he's getting hit with 5ft chop, looks back and says more like 10ft chop ?

 

I never get seasick, but I almost always get a slight rocking feeling after I get beaten up on the water with a boat.    This is a very common thing, and thankfully if you aren't prone to sea sickness, it'll go away in several hours once you get to dry land.  

[GreenPig]

1 hour ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I deck handed a center console in Orange Beach during the summers....one day we had to beat two converging storms in, and at one point the captain's friend has a picture of us with the prop clear out of the water.

 

Long story short, hours after we had arrived home, me and the captain are standing in Subway line and I look at him and ask him if he still feels like he's getting hit with 5ft chop, looks back and says more like 10ft chop ?

 

I never get seasick, but I almost always get a slight rocking feeling after I get beaten up on the water with a boat.    This is a very common thing, and thankfully if you aren't prone to sea sickness, it'll go away in several hours once you get to dry land.  

Never get sick, but it does take a bit more focus driving home on those windy days I love fishing.

[ScottW]

This is why I can never go deep sea fishing. I tend to chum the water more than wet a line. ? Nothing works for me to prevent it either. 

[Junk Fisherman]

On 10/4/2022 at 5:05 PM, Jar11591 said:

Yep. I used to fish from sun-up to sundown, and be completely GASSED on the drive home.  Don’t do it much anymore. If there is any question that I will be too tired to drive home, I call it a day right then. Especially on those days where I’m driving 45+ mins to the lake. 

 

I've gotten to the point where if I'm on a multi-day trip and the fishing is not great early in the trip, I'll make it a half day just to conserve energy.  If I try to hit it hard for 4-5 days in a row, I'll run out of steam by the end of the trip especially if the fishing is not great.  Burned myself out prefishing a few times.  

[WRB]

On 10/4/2022 at 11:22 PM, A-Jay said:

Not sure if I'm getting what you mean.

Is your truck swerving or perhaps your boat trailer ?

If you're referring to fatigue being a factor, I totally get that.

Fatigue is the arch enemy and the root cause of a high percentage of 'accidents';

of all kinds.  Professionally & recreationally.

I am very done being 'tired' behind the wheel.

Changed my ways a long time ago after losing a close friend who was driving home on leave.

Besides keeping myself in shape,

I always bring & eat food and stay hydrated,

AND

use the 1/3 - 2/3 rule.

I will use what I feel like is 1/3 of my capacity to get there & fish.

Allows for 2/3 of my human gas tank to get me home safely.

(as well as not taking some other innocent driver/whole family with me). 

Promised my wife and I hold myself accountable.

I fish a lot more HALF DAYS now. 

Stay Safe.

A-Jay

 

^^^^????^^^^

Rest one eye you die!

Tom

[dodgeguy]

It's called your equilibrium has to readjust to being on land. Dunkin Donuts extra large coffee with a turbo shot helps also.

[Columbia Craw]

DUI 

Age

Speed

Inattention (cell phones)

Fatigue

 

Not good.