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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LJM61" data-source="post: 422548" data-attributes="member: 21655">Words to live by Johnny!Generally, I'm a pretty cautious guy.First time out will be in the company of many other boats of friends not far from the launch at Port Dover on Lake Erie.So even if the engine fails to start, we can still fish until our friends are ready to head in, or if the need is more urgent, it would only take one companion boat to tow us back to the launch in about 15 minutes. And besides, the wind will end up pushing us back to short since the wind mostly comes from WSW which lines up with the beach or near enough to the harbor entrance that it won't be a huge ordeal in getting her back to the trailer. Besides, I have 40 years of experience in big water lakes. Not so much on Lake Erie as yet since I was raised on Lake Ontario and fished Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay most of my life which have many of the same characteristics of Erie as far as behavior goes. Quick to blow up into storms with sizable waves that can end as fast as they start or last hours if not a day.I do take the time to follow meteorology reports even when I have no plans to go on the lakes and prefer not to be out in big chop so I do plan accordingly. But I do love to fish when the wind and water is calm and it's overcast and raining. But most of the time we have pretty good sunny days with moderate winds here, and we're always close enough to shore just in case... We also have a flotilla of OPP(Ontario Provincial Police) marine units and a Canadian coastguard station right beside the Port Dover Pier. So ya! We're pretty lucky to have such a good safety net here.</blockquote>

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