I ran 22 miles east from Colchester to Pt Pelee, the winds were west around 10 knots with a two ft chop and running to Pelee was a breeze until I was about 4 miles from destination near the shipping channel, that 2ft chop gradually turned into 3-4's, it was noted that the winds at the Sandusky buoy were west at 16 knots.As the morning progressed those 3's and 4's turned into 6- and 7's, that absolutely sucked as we tried in vain to bring in hogs and lost them in the troughs.By noon the body and boat were in fatigue mode and we lost as many fish we caught, 28, 8 short of limit, but I said one more pass in this chit ain't gonna happen.A 40 minute run there took two hrs. to get back and low and behold there was still a mere 2ft chop as we headed back east 4 miles from home.So I guess the moral to the story is, always expect the unexpected when you travel out to sea and wave heights do change and vary with wind direction, speed and water depths.
Boy is my body ever sore today.......