It’s basically a broken record, but it plays a much-needed tune around these parts as the year sits in the most serious part of the Atlantic hurricane season.
While you spend valuable free time looking for fishable days, there are good things you can do as the season peaks in October.
Be ready for everything and give thanks if it doesn’t come to fruition.
Major hurricane predictors like the National Hurricane Center and Colorado State University at the beginning of the season were calling for potentially record year with lots of storms and plenty of damage.
And while the forecasts so far haven’t come to light, both – and other – organizations are calling for the Atlantic and Caribbean to be ready for business to ramp up.
Through the end of September, a rather mild time is expected.
Currently there is a system just east of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and another in the mid-Atlantic.
And while there is no doubt we’d rather be fishing, conditions for about a week will be better than storm preparation work.
Anglers, with the exception of those who fish for speckled trout and puppy drum in the inlets – the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic are forecast to get pretty snotty.
Small craft advisories will be the norm with seas starting off around five feet and building to about 10 feet. Northeast winds growing to about 30 knots will make conditions kind of sloppy.
Minor tidal flooding is almost a gimme and swimming along shorelines isn’t advised because of serious rip tides.
So while you fuse about not being able to go fishing, make sure the boat and emergency gear is in prime form and ready to do.
Let’s face it, getting caught in a bad storm while on the water can the life-threatening. So it’s best to prepare for it not to be.
