Creepy Outing On The Lake Today

[Vorlin]

I did 2 1/2 years of sea duty in the Navy and can tell you that things get really spooky, really fast. It's not that unusual, and that's why we use instruments and have redundant instruments and take along cracker-jack box instruments to back those up too (hey, I've heard of worse things than cracker jack toys getting someone out of a jam).

If you break it down, this could be easily explained...

1) You were focused on staying over the school so you weren't tracking your landmarks. This is how you got disoriented to begin with.

2) You asked a guy who didn't seem familiar with the lake... and his choice of words: "on THIS SIDE of the lake", is very telling. What "side" did he think he was on? Did he put in on the other "side", before coming in through the creek himself? Maybe he didn't put in on Orange and simply didn't understand that once he went through the creek he had changed lakes entirely, not merely changed sides of one lake.

3) You found the ramp well enough but somehow lost the other boat. Those bay jobs have a lot of "sail", meaning side area that gets hit by the wind. This will shove them around very quickly in any sort of breeze. He may have intentionally went around a strip of land of gotten blown by one... or maybe he got blown far enough that you may have seen his boat but thought that it couldn't have been him.

All in all there are believable, logical reasons for it all. Is it still spooky? You bet your rear end it is! Especially when you're in the middle of it.

Once I had my skin crawl in a way that it had never done before, or since, in my life. We were way out in the middle of the Carribean, hundreds of miles from anywhere. It was a peaceful, beautiful, quiet, summer dawn with the sun just coming over the horizon. Those of you who have been out there at that time of day know what I mean and why it makes the skin crawl.

They call it "Dead Calm" for a reason... not even the tiniest breeze, mirrored water, no sign of life anywhere. It's the eeriest feeling in the world, bar none. You would think that it's a natural, peaceful thing... but it gives you the creeps in a way that's the most unnatural thing I've ever experienced.

*** Any compass will do.... even a peanut butter jar lid with a needle that's magnetized and a scrap of paper will be far better than nothing. And yea, there are sailors who have used such a rig, or worse, to find thier way. (Put water in the lid, lay the paper in it and lay a magnetized needle on the paper... it rotates to align itself with the eaths magnetic poles. It's an old boy scout trick and it's a good thing to have when all else goes downhill on you.)

So how were the crappie!? Any pics?

Scott / Vorlin

[Tom Bass]

Thanks Troutfisher. None at all

[Troutfisher]

No problem.  Glad we handled this like men.  

They call it "Dead Calm" for a reason... not even the tiniest breeze, mirrored water, no sign of life anywhere. It's the eeriest feeling in the world, bar none. You would think that it's a natural, peaceful thing... but it gives you the creeps in a way that's the most unnatural thing I've ever experienced.

I have had that happen while I'm fishing.  It is VERY creepy when you're fishing alone.  It just feels like someone is watching you and they're following you.

"Who's there? Is that you, Avid?"

[Okeechobee_Cracker]

Ive had a couple wierd times also.............I usually fish the kissimmee river but one day desided to go out on okeechobee for my first time.......got about 1 mile out and was fishing in some tall grass and my buddy got his line stuck in the trolling motor...so i had to mess around with that for about 5 minute and when I looked up I was like "O no.......witch way back......." it all looked the same........luckly I saw this water tower just barley and knew that it was somewhere around the river so that lead me back...if it wasnt for that I would of been out there for awhile........................and then another time I was at a local lake and I wasgetting ready to put it in and I was watching the guy that had just launched out go up the river......I thne put my boat in and went the same way....I fish all the way to the end of that river and never once saw him.....and theres almost no way I could have missed him and theres also no boat ramps on that river...it was pretty creepy :-?