03-18-2007, 02:41 PM
Thanks for your concern tubeN2. Trust me, that wind caught me completely by surprise. [
] It felt like a slight breeze on shore. Once I was pushed out into the channel, I found out otherwise. It wasn't white capping so in my ignorance I was thinking, hey this is safe. It was making heavy, rolling wave action in deeper water.
My lack of tubing skill was my biggest Achilles heel. I know this lake rather well and know where I am in relation to land references and depth. When I saw that my depth finder said 50+ feet and I was below the gas station on Sunbury Rd., I knew I was not where I had planned to kick around for the day. Not good. And the wind picked up steam and became more steady. I kicked like a mad man until I got myself angled into the wind and waves out of deep water and was pushed to shore.
Actually, once I was blown to shore, I could have walked back to my truck. But I figured if I hugged the shoreline in the 3 to 4 ft of water the worse that could happen was to get blown back to land. I wouldn't have tried this at an unknown site. And this is a lake with great cell phone reception. If my first effort to get out of trouble was unsuccessful, I would have phoned for help in a hurry. I had no intention of drifting to the dam.
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] It felt like a slight breeze on shore. Once I was pushed out into the channel, I found out otherwise. It wasn't white capping so in my ignorance I was thinking, hey this is safe. It was making heavy, rolling wave action in deeper water.My lack of tubing skill was my biggest Achilles heel. I know this lake rather well and know where I am in relation to land references and depth. When I saw that my depth finder said 50+ feet and I was below the gas station on Sunbury Rd., I knew I was not where I had planned to kick around for the day. Not good. And the wind picked up steam and became more steady. I kicked like a mad man until I got myself angled into the wind and waves out of deep water and was pushed to shore.
Actually, once I was blown to shore, I could have walked back to my truck. But I figured if I hugged the shoreline in the 3 to 4 ft of water the worse that could happen was to get blown back to land. I wouldn't have tried this at an unknown site. And this is a lake with great cell phone reception. If my first effort to get out of trouble was unsuccessful, I would have phoned for help in a hurry. I had no intention of drifting to the dam.
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