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Fishing off Cohasset about 2-3 years ago and I could see a front coming, but had no idea how bad it was going to be. I try to keep close tabs on the weather but nobody predicted anything. I think this was late June and I thought, well just a passing shower coming our way no big deal.
Then I looked over towards Hull and the shoreline had disappeared behind a wall of rain and we scrambled to get into our rain gear, knowing full well a downpour was headed our way. The 15 mph winds suddenly went to probably 60-70 and the rain was horizontal and pelting us in the face. A light chop turned into 6 footers in probably less than 15 minutes, it was just too weired to discribe.
We continued to drift eels figuring, no way I wanted to make a run for Scituate in that stuff and actually picked up 4 quick keepers before it became dangerous. We started taking water over the transom and we tucked in behind West Shag to wait it out. I don't think it lasted more than an hour, but man was it wild. I can't imagine how rough it was a couple miles out, because we were in 6 footers and the wind only had that small stretch from Nantasket to Cohasset to build those waves.
Tight lines.
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