re: Being seduced by big water: bay boat to offshore CC

I moved my 25’ cat from Venice to Freeport during the oil spill. While we had some fun it was so much harder to fish because of several factors:

1). It’s so much further to deep water. I ran 75 miles and was in 150 feet.
2) it’s windier here so it is much harder to find days to fish
3) there are fewer rigs so you have to fish reefs and other bottom structure so you have to have much better electronics.

What the poster above said about young men, middle aged men and old men is true. The guys that do offshore well are middle aged and pretty much all own successful businesses that they can go whenever conditions allow. I have my own business now but less time than before..hope that within a few years that can change.