Mush-O-Ramika!

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Hit the port D W pier on NE over 30. Not E, NNE, but dead NE +30knts only and halfway down (near the last tree on the pier) and right alongside the pier the wave that has wrapped around out of the wind jacks and peels right. Have ridden it from pier to past the merrygoround many times. 30 knots means chest high-it's a mysto spot for sure but also my favorite wave on the lakes. Gotta be perfect conditions though or it just wont' fire-only happend twice last year.
Dan

Once saw a longboarder dropping into headhigh in the channel.

Your're right magilla, I'm full of crap. Some joke eh? Every time I try to post something helpful you guys poo poo it. Good thing my tips were all nothing but lies anyway, because I'd hate for anyone to actually waste their gas and time looking for waves anywhere besides the bridge and 51. The fact is I just like driving around aimlessly with a board on the roof 'cause chicks think its cool. The crew I surf with all like doing that too, because we are just posers and hodads who can't even swim and buy imitation surf trunks at wal mart. My boards are actually bolted to the roof.
dan

Hey Dan, If I swing by your place could you help me glue my sponge to my car roof. At my age, I need all the help I can get picking up chicks.
Tripping for surf is where its at. Anything but a short break (51/bridge). Give me a point or a shoal with a peeling wave......heaven.
Ron

No problem Ron. Maybe Fern can swipe some amazing glue from his lab at work and help us perma-sponge your Honda. Then us wavehunters can troll for kooks in a big gas and time wasting convoy together...
dan

I'm the bozo that was riding there on a 10 footer.

However it's not my favorite place to ride because of the currents coming out the channel, the current blowing me towards that lighthouse, and the cold on the day I rode it. That day looked nothing like the above photograph. If I was to title that day of surfing it would be called: Endless Paddling.

How did you find yourself in this post?

I mean really in a rhetorical nature and in the third person. Two years ago I really rode there when it was over my head.

I have a witness and she is this diver that I know.

Really?

Yes really I'm married to her.

No mush-o-rama the day I rode there.

The photograph is mush-o-rama. Really looks like that in the above photograph.

Magilla, I thought you were being sarcastic. The channel is tough with current; it's much easier alongside the W pier halfway down. Its smaller and seldom gets over chest high, but such a clean and long R...just that its a very very fickle spot. Has to be NE +30 or there is nothing ridable there in the W shadow of the pier, and choppy everywhere else near there. When it's on, though, its my favorite. Easy to get out (hell, you can walk and just jump in), easy to ride, predictable, and mega stand up time. Nice soft bottom too. I had Kenny out there one time in the winter and videotaped it, but who knows where that tape is now. Steve Manners used to surf it occassionally as well, but this year it's been only me and a crowd of curious people watching from the pier making me nervous.
You also have to watch current-if wind gets around 50 NE the current can drag you from alongside the pier W to beyond the beach and into the shoreline to the West. Lots of rocks in there, and you get weird looks from landowners when you struggle up their hill in the dead of winter with a surfboard and walk back down the street to the village. Steve Manners can attest to that...then again he and somebody else once ran naked thru the parking lot on a busy sunday night and did ass crackers into the channel, so he's used to getting weird looks in that neighborhood.
When I lived there overlooking the break I swam it every warm day, and have the place pretty much dialed by now. My dads boat is anchored there in the marina on the E side. I just wish the place would fire more frequently...Mysto, but it's always worth a walk out the pier to look when wind gets around NE 30 or more. You can't really see the break from the beach, so you have to take the walk to know for sure.

dan

Edit to protect the future political career and job potential. This is a site that the entire world can read.

We don't have many places where you can walk out on a pier and jump into the line up.

The crazy pic is at the Kilt and Clover. A bartender there once told me this photograph showing the waves breaking over the lighthouse was authentic. I then asked him if he surfed in the lakes. He said no and that he only surfs in the ocean. I thought that was a contradiction and my sarcasism was not saved that day when I walked out of the bar. Maybe he has moved to Brazil and glued a giant possum doll on the roof of his mini Cooper looking for migratory sasquatch's.

Depite the rumor I can confirm that the Buffalo Reef break is the best place on the U.S. side of Lake Erie to waste a day of surf. We've been waiting for a screen test of that place for years

Everybody check the For Sale section for ancient foam dust shavings from the historic Fargo Avenue shaping bay and the down and out without manners collective. If anyone is missing tools that were borrowed they can pick them up by appointment. Too busy resurfacing floors to please surfers who live in the residence for free.

The memorable words my wife heard from a fisherman on the pier after I had jumped into the channel and was beyond ear shot. "He knows there is a strong current in that channel." My wife responded, "He knows it now."

Let me say this my banter has got to be better than being trapped somewhere and having to watch Ball Room Dancing With The Stars. Honestly I never knew that when a six foot rapper with black sneakers, a fine suit, and a black baseball turned backwards walks back and forth on national television with a beautiful dressed starlit in his arms that this is classified as ball room dancing.

Incidently since my wild mind has gone off on a Chautaqua in a trailer court I would like to honestly tell any U.S. surfers that I have a copy of the audition application form for the Survivor television show. I don't wish to try out for the show. One of the questions asked: What would you be willing to do for a million dollars? My answer. Ball room dance with Coutney Love. Sorry Canadian viewers of Survivor. The show is not auditioning Canadians for the show. Count your blessings.

Meanwhile in Saint Catharines I await the day when Daly Park errupts as I suspect it does. These places are like dormant volcanoes that can go off quickly under the right conditions.

Dan too much information on the world wide internet about those guys whose alias names that you used here.

Survivor Audition Information:

http://wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4373139

Good swimmers go to the head of the line.

Not sure which guys you are referring to as alias's-I mentioned fern, steve, and jesse-all very real surfers from around here that you've met before.??

A google search by somebodies future employer could be hurt by the things that are written on a web forum.

Notice the edit above.


A closed mouth gathers no foot.

I thought this was a real name forum, which you keep stressing. Jesse, Steve, and Fern are all good friends of mine; I only mentioned the parking lot story because it has been a well known party favorite story to tell amoung niagara surfers for about 10 years now and brings back happy memories to all of us. Jesse, BTW, has gone on to be a legitimate Canadian war hero in the Army, while Steve has gone thru police college and currently works in Toronto and lives here with his wife and two children. Fern is an engineer and keeps going back to school to push his own limits. There's nothing to be ashamed of here, just three people we can all admire(I know I am proud of them anyway) even if they sometimes did crazy things when they were kids. There are silly stories about all of us. Surfing and the surf lifestyle is to me a celebration of youth and fun and craziness, not something to be ashamed of or kept hidden.
Dan

Yes this is a real name forum but remember what you write about others could come back and harm them later. Better talk around the camp fire with surfers and beers than to publish moments of youthful exuberance for the google press.

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.