To see the whitecaps roll through the East Pass is not a good sign. Nor is the fact that Rodeo weighmaster Bruce Cheves has resorted to telling the 100 or so people braving this overcast but stiflingly humid Thursday evening stories about sharks, sting rays, people being killed by falling space debris and some type of brain-eating amoeba running rampant through parts of the Southwest.

“Not a whole lot of people went fishing today,” Cheves said.

Capt. Kelly Windes on the Sunrise, one of the Rodeo’s great showmen, cruised by the scales about an hour ago and rumor has it, there aren’t very many boats behind him.

The weather has been the story of Day 4 of the 59th annual Destin Fishing Rodeo as big seas and storms have kept most of Destin’s charter boats in their slips and the Rodeo leaderboard relatively unchanged from the day before.

Cheves said he isn’t sure how many more boats he will see — and as for the weekend?

“It all depends on the weather,” he said.

-Patrick Donohue

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