Sea sick?

Ok, this may seem a dumb question, but how many of you suffer from sea sickness?  while on lakes,I'm fine, on effects but open water, I'm afraid i'll loose it after a time.  With me, it starts with headache. This is probably the main reason I stay off open water.   It sucks! 
  In the past I've done the dramamine(?)while on pb's and it seemed to minimaze the affects.

When I first started kayak fishing it hit me a couple of times, I never got to the point of chumming but I got close. A few tricks I learned.

Never go out on an empty stomach

Always make sure you are drinking water

When drifting don't stare at your line for to long, you need to watch the horizon.

Fog makes it tough cause there is no horizon

Moving and paddling can help calm your stomach since you are usually looking at the horizon.

Yeah, know "watch the horizon "  Go figure I spent 3 yrs at sea in the navy, the first few hours under way I was completly useless!  A lump of flesh in a corner with a glad trash bag! (very first time out to sea back then) At first, "walking on the walls" down a hallway on ship, was fun, till the brain realized something was not right, then the stomach got into it the mix not wanting to be left out.
 Afterwards, when it passed, I was good till I hit land again.  Got my "sea legs" as it called then (maybe now too) Not sure I'll be on my kayak long enough to find my "sea legs" I guess the more I do it the more i'll get used to it. 
  To me a full stomach seems like I'd be asking for touble!  I allways have water so no problem there. But, you've been there, I haven't (yet) I'll listen to your experience.
Thanks

im super prone to puking and i do the bonine the night before which helps you rest wel and the following day, no swell can make me queasy. i love it. tastes like raspberry too!

Eat ginger.

Do not spend minutes at a time looking into your lap while tying knots, dealing with tackle etc... As mentioned before, the horizon is your friend.

Do not think about big fried chunks of pork fat resting in an overfilled ashtray that is also soaked with diesel fuel. Especially, do not think about how the aforementioned pork fat chunks would smell, sitting in said ashtray.

Last of all, there aint no shame in selling Buicks.

Scott

I have felt the sickness on occasion. For a long day I advise just what John Guineapig does. It has worked for me. I also notice that I am more prone to feeling lousy on the water early in the season, but that by the end of the season I hardly think of it. Maybe that's just 'cause the bigger swells are always in May, who knows?
I always eat something light before going out & try to avoid coffee too. Too big a breakfast spells trouble for me. And I try not to drink too many beers the night before either, this has proved the most difficult part for me.

Sean

I have felt the sickness on occasion. For a long day I advise just what John Guineapig does. It has worked for me. I also notice that I am more prone to feeling lousy on the water early in the season, but that by the end of the season I hardly think of it. Maybe that's just 'cause the bigger swells are always in May, who knows?
I always eat something light before going out & try to avoid coffee too. Too big a breakfast spells trouble for me. And I try not to drink too many beers the night before either, this has proved the most difficult part for me.

Sean

man when i have coffee and i have a burp while in the water it makes me real grossed out. that will make me puke. something about coffee and being queasy. they dont mix well.

Scott has the answer.

The guys on the TV show "Mythbusters" did experiments to find a non-pharmacutical way to combat seasickness.  After trying several different things, ginger pills were the only thing that helped.

How bout some ginger candy. They have them at the asian markets. There is also crystalized ginger candy sold at small health food shops. My sister use to sell both at her produce shop in Oakland. It's a new owner now but they should still carry it. Lakeshore Produce next to Petes on Lakeshore drive.

Diesel fuel ! Smells good to me!  As for the other ingredients, 

I'm really prone to seasickness but haven't gone out on the ocean with my kayak and sat in the swells yet.  I suspect I'm going to get my share of bouncing when I head out of LM or HMB for rockfish in July.  When I first started deep sea fishing I tried dramamine (put me to sleep) and bonine (gave me a sour stomach) when I went out on the party boats.  Without any drugs I would spend my "fishing" time trapped on the rail of the party boat wishing I were dead. 

Then my doctor had me try scopolamine transdermal patches and since then I can eat greasy food, drink coffee and fish off of the bow of the boat with no worries.  It is a prescription drug, you can't have glaucoma, it makes you thirsty but it does the trick.  When I need refills my doctor just phones it in.  If you have Kaiser the advice nurse can phone it in.

I've heard that ginger works and saw that episode of the myth busters.  I couldn't look when they spun those guys in that torture device.  Anyway, when Mooch and I were talking about this, there were ginger pills right on the counter at the Fisherman's Warehouse. 

Everybody is different but I feel sorry for the poor souls that find out the hard way that they're prone to sea sickness.  Been there, done that, don't want to go through that ever again.

Gary

I used the ginger candy when I was in Mex. and the Bahamas, and I would concur that it was effective, but short term. In other words, the effectiveness did not last long after the candy was gone.

vanim

yes try scopolamine transdermal patches.

 i have alot if wanna try .take the night before then you wont be tired when you use it the next day in the ocean .they last for three days if you leave it on .once you take the patch off it will stop working.

they work great on me but everyones different.

laters
eric

Heard of the patches, (didn't know the full name),but have never tried them.  Haven't had a need as yet. 

Thanks

it's wierd that I NEVER get sick on the kayak - no matter how bad the conditions are......but you put me on a boat and  I'm blowing chunks everywhere 

IMO: I hate taking drugs when fishing from a boat because it just seems to kill the "fishing buzzzz"