FOG - to Go or Not?

[fishonnelsons]

This is not really a question, and maybe should be in Grumphy Old Farts, but anyways...

We had a charter this morning, left at 7 a.m. from Ptown and it was really fogged in tight, maybe 100 ft of visisbility. We have radar, GPS, etc etc so I just take it relatively easy and off we go.

We hit the spots, hit the fish, and then we start heading for the barn, maybe an eight mile run or so . The fog never let up, and even got worse in sections.

Now the bitch - I must have passed at least ten boats on the way in -and probably about 8 of them had no radar. My feeling is that in fog like that, if you don't have radar, don't go out. You are putting yourself at risk, and depending upon those boats which do have radar to watch out for you. I can understand going out in the clear, and then getting caught in the fog, but when it's that bad out why chance it?