Perhaps shell shocked from a hearty dose of high seas congestion the night before we opted for an exploratory mission today/tonight that came up dry. Well almost dry. We caught one. As my old mentor Steve Loomis used to say "if you come to the ball game enough you'll sit in every seat in the stands". Though inevitable the wheelhouse pain on such occasions never diminishes. That's why we prefer to live in the ninety ninth percentile. But that still leaves one. And today we lived that one percent hard. Weather on the rise and a break from driving around the obvious call we pointed her toward the coast midway through the night heading SE with the freshening wind and building seas astern. Well mix it up with some coastal variety tomorrow before returning to the offshore grounds in better conditions Monday. Today is a grab from the archive appropriate for the occasion.