Walter & Group.........
Here is a little quiz on what to do when fly fishing or casting as a storm approaches:
1.) You are giving a workshop at a conclave with 15 attendees. Your venue is a football field . A T-storm is approaching.
What do you do ?
2.) As an experience river guide, you have two sports in your river boat .. Fly fishing has been good this afternoon. Now, a T-storm is looming and getting closer. What do you do ?
3.) Fishing in a river with waders has resulted in a couple of nice bows. Now you are threatened by a T-storm. Heavy woods nearby. Your next move ?
4.) You are in your skiff about 12 miles from home base out on the salt water flats of the Florida Keys. Nearest land is a group of mangrove islands about a mile away. As a storm approaches, you hear thunder and see lightning. This storm is between you and home base and it threatens to expand right over you. Every time you raise up your graphite push pole, it vibrates. What do you do ?
5.) Dolphin fishing is your thing. You've already taken a couple of good fish near a weed line 22 miles off shore East of Miami. You are fishing from a 23' open console boat. A T-storm is approaching you from the West, and another one is making up in the South. What do you do ?
6.) A T-storm approaches as you are fishing a small stream near a bridge for brookies. What is your best move ?
7.) You are on a 30 mile long remote and uninhabited beach at East Cape, Baja trying to catch roosterfish on a fly. There are big sand dunes behind you. Your guide had dropped you off from a dune buggy, so you are alone. A T-storm is making up and appears to be coming right down the beach from the North. Your best move ?
8.) You are in your 17' skiff at the edge of a flat way out in the Marquesas Islands, 30 miles West of Key West. A weather front hits with winds of 50 MPH from the Northwest. What do you do ?
9.) You and your buddy are fishing a flat in the Bahamas in a 16' light skiff. Your mother ship is 10 miles away. No Islands in sight. You have a VHF radio and a hand held GPS. The weather is closing in and there are nasty T-storms in every direction. How do you handle this one ?
10.) The fishing has been slow out on the flat ..... no bonefish. No wind. No thunder or lightning. A black cloud approaches with a waterspout which is kicking up a lot of water. It seems to be coming right at your from the north. Your home base is well South of you. What do you do ?
11.) Same scenario as in 10.) ....... Your outboard motor won't start ! Now what ?
12.) I was fishing a flat just Northeast of the Bahia Honda-Ohio bridge in the lower Florida Keys when a big T-storm hit. What do you think I did ?
13.) A large thunderstorm is a few miles East of you. The radar report on the VHF radio says that it is moving East away from your area ..... HOWEVER, it certainly seems to be getting closer.... not farther. What do you think is happening ?
These are real life scenarios I've actually experienced. No. 12.) happened this morning . No. 4.) happened just day before yesterday. Let's see how you would have handled these.
Gordy