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

I would suggest if your hell bent on getting your own boat be prepared to open your wallet. I primarily fish overnighters and it is straight zombie mode leaving lake charles to venice on a Friday night after work with few buddies prep boat leave 10 am Saturday fish all night run 60 miles in clean fish,boat and drive home. Then be at work on Monday for 7 am lol.Need full day recover 3 days ideally ..Prepare for motor maintenance expensive tackle (electric reels, big spinners throwing poppers,50s for chunking/live baiting, bait spinning reels, blackfin jigging reels). Expect to have 3k plus in terminal tackle and lures. (loosing butterfly jigs and poppers gets expensive fast!)165 gallons fuel (boat holds) 300 pounds ice, flat pogies, drinks, food, typical overnighter cost 800 bucks give or take split between 3 guys. Prepare for sh$t to be constantly breaking.. Also be sure to get delorme inreach and epirb minimum. Also subscription to Hilton or ripcharts is mandatory if your fishing offshore esp for pelagics. The adventure itself is so much fun and catching 50 to 100 plus pound yellowfin on chunk is awesome...Seeing flying fish getting smashed at night By tuna and hurling a popper at the blow up and get hammered is one thing everybody should
experience at least once..Also snapper and bliners and tons of other options make the opportunities endless. At the end of the day your snapper will be 100$ a pound but the memories last a lifetime with family and friends...