Cool Patrick
I am referring to the social day Sunday, where there were so many worried weatherman. This Sunday past I deaped it and the weather was fine too.
The barometer never lies and if you know the Cape you will know that after a gale SE you can put to see the next day almost every time. Even if it only drops at around 2:00am that morning, you can run by 9am very comfortably.
The NW is a different ball game and the ocean normally settles only a day and a half to 2 days later. I'm not talking inside the bay here but on the outside.
So if you got a screaming SE for 4 days and you get a drop that evening and wind the next day at about 12-15 knots you CAN go fishing.
I was amazed at how much time was spent weather watching on the few days before the social with a few guys predicting a no go. In fact it almost became irritating. We just chuckled on Sunday whilst Nepptune, Gavin and Junior were slaying the fish on the jigs.
Sure we poked out nose out the point early and got a snot klap, so we came back in, waited two hours and shot back out as it dropped. The same drop that the weather sites I watch had predicted for 7 days before and which I had mentioned in a few posts.
I used too make this mistake 10 years back when I first came to the Cape. The only way I worked it out was to go down to the slip. Launch the boat and see if these "drops" actually came true etc. Coupled with a fascination for reading barometers I must be honest and say I normally get it right.
Barometer = fishermans best friend. Then the weather forecasters. If you watch the glass often and with dedication, make a few notes of pressure and outside conditions in a diary, you will see patterns. We are into a very nice pattern now which allows for some novice predictiing that is pretty accurate.
This being said I only know if I am calling a trip off the morning I'm supposed to go. This is my Summer SE attitude. Like I say Winter NW's are a different game.
Cheers
HT