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I remember reading a post or 2 on here where guys from Utah went on some Sport fishing boats out of Southern California. I'm thinking about doing a multi day trip out of San Diego in the next couple years. I went once on a 3/4 day trip as teenager and got sick as a dog.
My question, with todays seasickness meds is it doable for a land lover like myself who gets seasick go on one of those trips or should I just forget about it?
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Yes definitely doable! My brother and mom both get motion sickness very easily. But with the help of Zofran and/or Transderm Scop(patch behind ear)they can sit on a boat or back seat of car all day. My mom uses them when she flies too, she gets sick really easily. But these really help!
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there is a trick to using seasick pills, get them in your system the day before you go out and you should be just fine. if you take them the morning of your trip you will be sick.
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I am very prone to seasickness. I use the scopolamine (??) patches. You need a prescription to get them; however, they are worth it for most of the time.
I went tuna fishing this past January in the gulf. We ended up in a horrible storm with 20 foot seas. Most everyone became seas sick even those wearing the patch, including myself. Having said this, this was the first time in over 10 years of offshore fishing that I became sick.
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I was in the Navy for 10 years and have been through some pretty scary storms...Once we went through the middle of two merging typhoons in the Sea of Japan and hit 40' waves! The Destroyer was literally climbing uphill to get over the waves, then would crash into the bottom of the next wave practically submerging the ship! It was an experience for sure. You know it's for real when the Commanding Officer orders all hands to the berthing and to strap into their racks!
Anyways, enough with the sea stories...
The charter captains always recommended stuff called Bonine. It's like the regular Dramamine that most people use for motion sickness but is supposed to be non-drowsy. I have never gotten sea sick myself, but I know people who swear by it!
When you are down there, look up a little tackle shop called Squidco. Best Saltwater tackle shop in SD! Cool little place with great guys who will give the best intel and hook you up with whatever you will need on your trip! I wish I was able to get down there in a month or two when the yellows start running!
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Start eating dill pickles the night before and keep eating as many as you can stand all day. i know it its sounds crazy, but it works! Believe in the power of the pickle!
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I'm in the works of lining up a 6 pack out of San Diego in August. I will definitely be using something for sickness. When I went out of St. Lucia about two hours into it I was so nauseous I wish I could throw up. Even if it was a belly full of pickles!
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Used to guide in AK, and though I don't ever get sea sick I had plenty of folks get sick on me. Bonine is a good over the counter option if you don't tend to get motion sick too easily. The prescription patches are the way to go if you are more easily motion sick.
Easiest way to know if you are prone to getting sea sick is if you ever get sick on a winding mountain road while riding in the back seat of a car or truck.
utwalleye's advice is spot on. Get the stuff in your system 24 hours before you plan on getting on the boat. We recommended people start taking the pills or put a patch on the morning before their flight to AK. The Bonine really is non-drowsy from what I understand, and so is the patch.
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Newspaper around yer belly grantee it works
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Thanks for the advice guys. I'm going to pull the trigger and do a trip in 2017, it looks like too much fun not to.
Also doing some research on boats I came across a story in 1999 where the captain of the Royal Polaris I beleive, on a long range trip blew himself up with a homemade firework or something while in mexican waters. They put his body on ice and had to make the long trip back to San Diego. Appearantly there was a guy from Salt Lake on board who won the jackpot for biggest fish of the trip. Does anyone know who that is?
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The captain was James' Rollo 'Heyn he bleed to death don't know who won the jack pot that day.
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Also doing some research on boats I came across a story in 1999 where the captain of the Royal Polaris I beleive, on a long range trip blew himself up with a homemade firework or something while in mexican waters. They put his body on ice and had to make the long trip back to San Diego. Appearantly there was a guy from Salt Lake on board who won the jackpot for biggest fish of the trip. Does anyone know who that is?
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""All I can say is that it was a quiet boat ride home," said John Bradford, a fisherman from Salt Lake City who took top-fish honors with a 292-pound tuna."
I worked with John Bradford for several years and consider him a personal friend. He has taken several of these long-range fishing trips and has caught tuna weighing over 400 pounds.
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Don't mess around with seasick. Get a 2 or 3 day prescription for the Scopolamine patch, then go to Walgreens and get some ginger gum, then wear the Sea Band wrist band. Do all three and enjoy the ride.
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Yes, go deep sea fishing! Avoid seasickness. Here's how:
This subject brings back my fondest childhood memories. The family had extraordinary seamanship competence and generally a high resistance to seasickness, but my chances to be valuable was because I was the most resistant to seasickness which often became important in crossing in the Gulf of Mexico from Apalachicola to Tampa and crossing in the Atlantic from Miami to The Bahamas and back. This is because we never postponed our vacations for any weather. Though we made our boat exceptionally seaworthy the weakness was in rough seas you must not lose helm control for even one second in seas so rough no one else dared venture out let alone a crossing. There were times that everyone would get seasick except me and I took the helm and kept us upright foremost and secondarily on course in extremely rough seas.
The lessons we learned regarding seasickness is it is best avoided by having an empty stomach. The rare times when I did get seasick were always with meals still in my stomach which can even include a very large meal from the night before. Fortunately, I only needed to avoid eating for the roughest of crossings and could generally tolerate just normal rough seas with eating. But, having food in my stomach has been the only times I've ever been seasick. I've never needed seasickness medication.
Based on these experiences, I recommend prioritising enjoyment of deep sea fishing over the relatively minor discomfort of hunger particularly if you know you will enjoy a big restaurant meal after arriving back on land. The exception to an empty stomach is keeping hydrated by drinking water. Besides, just water doesn't take much time in the stomach. Just don't get thirsty and drink a lot all at once.
I also understand that looking mostly out at the horizon and not in the boat helps many though that never mattered to me.
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with the wrist band pressure point piece of junk that does nothing.