Little boats, big water

[calixtog]

OK, guys. How many of you have seen a flats boat wwwaaaaayyyy offshore, maybe 10-15 miles, where they have no business being?

How many of you pulled that stunt in your younger, 10-feet-tall-and-bulletproof days?

I won't admit to anything. It'll make my mom angry.

Cg

[monkeyman1]

i have, 25 miles out of sabine jetties. was very calm going out, but i was concerned for them coming in...got rough. saw them at the rig, didn't see again.

[Brian Castille]

I saw a 14' jon boat with 9.9 hp and two people 22 miles out of Galveston one day.

I have seen many small boats out to 35 miles over the years.

We fish the gulf in our 17' whaler on nice days.

[rockhound76]

I was on a rig, working about 30 miles off the LA coast, when I looked down and saw a 16' bateau with two divers on it tied off to a leg.

Stupid.

[007]

Coach Law and myself escorted one in from 15 miles out of SLP earlier in the summer. It looked like maybe a 15' v-bottom aluminum boat with a 20hp force. The seas had built to 3'-4 while we were out there and I didn't feel right leaving them out there so we cut our day short and told them to follow in my prop wash. It took a little while but, we got them in safe and sound.

[Calmday]

When I was 15-16 and dumber than a box of rocks we would regularly run off shore in a raggedy little Glasstron Try-hull with extra gas in anything that would hold it. No radio or anything else. Just a compass. We would lie to my dad and tell him that we were staying in West Bay.
Now that Im older and a little wiser. No way!

[bayourat]

out 15+ miles in a 14ft ALOT when i was younger...















bad thing is... I'd still do it now.

[bwguardian]

We were sitting on the other side of Heald bank with two 18' boats and decided to start heading back to shore and stop at a couple places on the way back in. When we were about 15 miles out a very dark cloud (front given this was around Labor Day) approaching fast. The 12-15 seas were off our starboard bow and crashing over the top...I was worried about the waves killing the engines. I figured the wind to be blowing 45 mph but when we finally got through it at the jetties I got a friend on the radio and he said the winds were 54 knts and there were 48 may days and 8 boats down. I was just thankful for the Coast Guard cutter that stayed along side us through the rough stuff even though we were in a 25' Whaler. I still to this day wonder about those two 18' boats.

[seabo]

three miles in a 15' w a 30 hp at slp super flat ,water was beautiful, i know i could have gone further but the tower was barely visable . we were trolling for whatever.

[kyle2601]

Was working on a rig about 70 miles offshore of La. and saw a 15foot jonboat come racing by with a lone fisherman. I thought to myself that was crazy and partly ignorant.