Trans Scop, the patch works for sure …
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the fact or state of having been affected by or gained knowledge through direct observation or participation
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that thing you get just moments after you needed it.
I’ve tried about all the conventional methods but on rough days it doesn’t work. I’ve thrown up with Bonine and the patch. Am I just screwed?
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Originally posted by Fishguy98I’ve tried about all the conventional methods but on rough days it doesn’t work. I’ve thrown up with Bonine and the patch. Am I just screwed?
Fish whistle
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PROUD YANKEE
Oyster Baron
NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
Put the patch on the night before.
Tuff e Nuff
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Originally posted by Cracker Larry30 years of charter boats, I’ve seen a lot of people puke:dizzy_face:
Both my wife and best offshore fishing partner suffer from it something terrible. My wife can’t even ride in the back seat of a car without throwing up. Much less get in an airplane or boat. My son is almost as bad. Over the years I’ve seen about everything tried, most are placebos, but what I’ve seen actually work is a prescription drug called scopolamine. My wife uses Transderm Scopolamine, it’s a little patch that goes behind your ear and last for 3 days. They aren’t cheap, at about $10 a pop, but if she doesn’t puke for 3 days it’s worth it! In the past I’ve had to tie her to the boat to keep her from jumping overboard, took a shotgun away from her to keep her from shooting herself one night off the Tortugas. The lady gets sick! One patch now and she’s good for 3 days
My fishing partner uses the same drug in a pill form. Scopase I think it’s called. One pill in the morning and he’s good all day. I seldom get seasick, but I did once with him, took one of his pills and 30 minutes later I was good to go.
I think it’s mostly state of mind and if I start getting queasy, which has been known to happen, get up, get out, look at the horizon and not your feet, laying down is the worst thing you can do. Keep your mind focused on something. I do better running the boat than riding in it. Don’t want to be in the cabin too long either. I consider myself pretty salty, but I can throw up with the best of them on occasion and it’s a miserable feeling[:I]
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
I second the scop pills. Quick relief and it works. Ask my wife on the last med cruise.
Last evening we had twenty foot quart ing seas. The pills worked great for her
big dog
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Originally posted by Fishguy98I’ve tried about all the conventional methods but on rough days it doesn’t work. I’ve thrown up with Bonine and the patch. Am I just screwed?
Fish whistle
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PROUD YANKEEOyster Baron
NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
Works wonders and once sparked the mystery fish hits
big dog
Stick with scopolamine but dump that patch.
Oral scopolamine, just like the astronauts used many years ago.
No need to start before
Trip or keep on after.
Use as needed.
I often have the opposite problem. After being on a boat for a long time I get land sick when I get back on shore. The longer I’m on the boat the worse it is when I get on land that isn’t moving. Sometimes I can’t hardly walk. It makes me sick and dizzy. I’ve found that a rocking chair is the best thing. Brought a sailboat up from the islands to Everglades City a while back, was on the boat for 2 weeks. When we got to Everglades city I couldn’t even walk. We got a room at the Everglades Rod and Gun Club (old Hemminway haunt, cool place, used to be real wild too!) Anyway, I spent the entire night on the porch in a rocking chair, I couldn’t sleep in a bed that wasn’t moving.
Am I the only one with this malady?
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
Did not know that the SCOP was available in a pill format. I assume dry mouth is still a side effect?
I spoke with one of Charleston saltiest and he said he firmly believes that over time the body chemistry and motion sickness changes. He has been fishing offshore over 40-years, and is now in his mid to late 60s. He said he never got sick until about 5-years ago. After getting sick 3-trips in a row he started wearing the patch and now never leaves home without it. He said if he gets out there and it is real calm he will take it off and stick it to something and put it in his pocket, if the conditions change he just pulls it back out and throws it on.
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Originally posted by Cracker LarryI often have the opposite problem. After being on a boat for a long time I get land sick when I get back on shore. The longer I’m on the boat the worse it is when I get on land that isn’t moving. Sometimes I can’t hardly walk. It makes me sick and dizzy. I’ve found that a rocking chair is the best thing. Brought a sailboat up from the islands to Everglades City a while back, was on the boat for 2 weeks. When we got to Everglades city I couldn’t even walk. We got a room at the Everglades Rod and Gun Club (old Hemminway haunt, cool place, used to be real wild too!) Anyway, I spent the entire night on the porch in a rocking chair, I couldn’t sleep in a bed that wasn’t moving.
Am I the only one with this malady?
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>You’re not the only one Larry. After being on that 44’er in the CG for anything over about 12 hours when I got back in I couldn’t close my eyes in the shower, or I’d about fall through the curtain, and instantly feel sick. Same thing laying in the bed too. Have to keep my eyes open until I dozed off. Only time I’d get sick on the boat is if I had a hangover. Now all I have to do is look in the tackle box for a minute and feel it coming on…without a hangover! Big fan of Bonine now!
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I took a guy fishing a couple weeks ago with his family from Atlanta. On the ride offshore, it came up that he was helping to develop and sell a motion sickness wristband that is supposed to work wonders. He was saying that it’s been used in the medical fields for a while to cure nausea related to chemo, vertigo, whatever, whatever and that he was trying to develop a market for it in the boating world. His big sales pitch was that “if you don’t know whether you’re going to get seasick, why not be proactive in prevention?”
We get offshore (2-4’ swelly seas) and start live baiting for blacfin and as soon as they start busting and getting close, every one of his kids starts puking. We get a triple hook up just as the last kid hurls and the dad and I land all three fish. With dinner in the boat we head back in to the dock, each kid suffering from the pains of sea sickness the whole ride in. Once they hit land they’re back to normal minus a few empty stomachs.
An hour later, the dude comes back to the dock and shows me this miracle nausea band that he has and I ask him why he didn’t bring them on the trip. He said he didn’t think his kids would get sick…
I’ve seen a ton of people puke and while some people are a “one and done” kind of sea sick, the only thing I’ve found to work for RELIEF is dry land under the feet. As far as prevention goes, I have plenty of people who are dosed up on Dramamine, Bonine, Scop patches, etc get sick. The patches seem to have the highest success rate in my limited experience though.
Since this topic keeps on going, I thought I would share this link http://gcaptain.com/seasickness-ways-tackle/ SOme of it is entertaining…some of it pretty good information.
“Ships and Sailors Rot in Port”- Admiral Nelson
bwulmer I remember those 44’ on the great lakes it was a rolling metal football. Larry that always happened to us after a long 30-45 day patrol on the Bearing sea. Best cure was adult beverages so you had an excuse for bumping into the walls and just passed out…lol…
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You're not the only one Larry.
That’s good to hear, I was starting to feel lonely 
Went on a grouper trip recently in the GOM with my buddy in Hudson Beach. It was rough as a cob when we left at daylight, heading out 65 miles, but the wind was behind us and the sea not too bad, near shore in the lee of the land anyway. My buddy the Capt says not to worry, it will lay down soon. I’m thinking not. He keeps pushing out and it keeps getting worse and worse. We finally made it to the numbers and tried to bottom fish, but in a 27’ boat in 8-10 seas it was tough bottom fishing. We managed to put a few nice gags and reds in the box, but everybody on the boat was throwing up, me and the Capt. included. It was awful and we were 65 miles from home with the wind dead on the nose. It was a long ride home into those waves 
About 8 hours. It was also pouring rain, lightning and there were waterspouts all around. Real fun ride!
When we got to the dock, one man left running for his truck, said he never wanted to get on a boat, or catch a fish again. That poor guy was sick. I got on the dock, took 3 steps and fell down. Crawled up the ramp, laid out flat on my back in the grass, in pouring rain, for an hour before I could function on solid ground.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
Larry,
I suffer from the get home rolling as well. Only when I have been on a boat for several days. It sucks putting one leg on the floor when you try to go to bed. Had it happen a month ago when I got off a cruise in France. Lasted a couple of days. Playing pinball off the hallway walls is not fun
big dog
The older you get, the little hair like structures(Utricles) in your inner ear get stiff…like joints…and the reason I can’t stay on the toilet(without hanging on) after a couple of days of fishing offshore. I’ve never been seasick and if I did, I’d move to Idaho. When you are seasick and hurling, if you see something with hair on it go by…grab it…might be your wrecked uhm.