Okay...here we go....Last week....:)
by Capt Juls on 09/15/13It was a busy week last week. Let's start at the beginning.
First I apologize for being late with my blogging, but there were priorities that had to come first, like my regular jobs, and that thing called SLEEP! :)
Monday....
I had a charter scheduled with Mr. and Mrs Wallace of the Cleveland area. They are an older couple in their early 70's, and were to meet me at Mazurik's at 8am...or, so I thought.
Turns out, Mr Wallace thought he was to meet me at my house and showed up in my driveway just a couple minutes before I was going to head out and get some bait. It's a good thing they showed when they did, because they had no idea where the launch was, and I would have missed them. I also don't think they have a cell phone, because every time I called to touch base with him it would just go to a machine. I had to chuckle, because they reminded me very much of my parents. :)
I had them follow me on our way to the launch, but I decided to pull into a parking lot to show them the radar I was looking at. I could tell that the Mrs was not too happy about the weather and she looked very tired. It turns out they had been camping over in the Breast Bay area in MI, and she hadn't been able to sleep and was up since 2:30 that morning.
I showed them the radar and the line of thunderstorms that were headed our way, and explained that by what I was seeing at the time we would be fishing in the rain and that there were chances of lightning associated with the rain. They were given the choice of rescheduling again or getting their deposit back.
They opted for the reschedule and I will see them again next Tuesday. I'm hoping the weather will finally give them a break as this was the second time they rescheduled hoping for a nice day on the lake.
Needless to say, the radar changed as soon as they left and the "storms" that were on the edge of us were dissipating as it hit the shoreline. The winds died down and the rain turned to just a little drizzle. It would have been a fine day to go fishing.
Oh well, I can only go by what information is given at a specific time and make my decisions based on that. With an older couple, I was not going to take any chances. Especially when they didn't have the rain gear to spend the next 6 hours in without getting wet. :)
Capt Juls
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