[bluewater]

I am supposed to be in Hatteras as we speak heading offshore on fellow TBR member Captain Jay's charter the "Bite Me". I got up at 3:30 am and pulled out of the driveway around 4:00 to meet four customers of mine in Nags Head so we could all ride down together. There was a horrible accident between Wanchese and Pirates Cove blocking everything. Traffic was backed up a long ways. There are a lot of captains and mates that live in Manteo that could not get to Pirates Cove or oregon Inlet. The police would not even let captains/mates walk past the accident to get to Pirates Cove. Needless to say I called my customers at 4:30 and told them to head on down and I would catch up with them as soon as I could. Two #@&%!^% hours later I gave up came home. The police said it would be at least another hour before traffic could pass through. The bad part is I had all of the food,drinks,BEER, and the money for tip and fish cleaning. To top it all off the company that was taking us fishing did not show up to the dock until 6:30. So not only did my customers not have any food other than a few snacks they could round up in Hatteras this morning but the freaking "big wigs" all show up late. They had three boats chartered today and they were all sitting and waiting for the "big wigs" to get there. So I hope it is a banner day fishing for my customers for all the crap they had to put up with today. I wanted to fish SOOOO BAD!!! I am going to be one crabby s.o.b. today.

The one upside to missing the trip today is I will not miss my son's first baseball game of the season. I am also an assitant coach so I know the head coach will be glad I am there.