i dont think people understand how big 8 footers are lol. Those were 4-5 max. But still dangerous at times. glad you made it out with no issues!

I’ve been out on Erie in 4-6 foot waves and they sure looked a lot bigger than those waves!

8 to 12s we wouldn't be watching the video

...got stuck out there in a 21 ft. walleye charter just outside Canadian water once bout 30 yrs ago & wind kicked up some 8-10s...took hours to get back to Port Clinton ...most unpleasant trip Erie isn't a lake...it's actually an inland sea

More like 4 to 5 at the most. 12 ft would have come over the back dude

Literally no one: This guy: 12 ft waves bro. Source: Trust me bro

I learned my lesson in a 14 ft aluminum in 5 ft swells on Lake Ontario out of Toronto. Check wind speed, a nice warm day doesn't always mean its a boating day, especially if its a warmer day between fall and spring

the upside down and backwards visor cap 😂😂😂 this guy still living in the early 2000’s

I crossed lake Erie in 10 ft waves once! Scariest night of my life! We came from Buffalo and we're headed to Port Colborne! We ended up going to Crystal Beach. Those waves were half of what we dealt with.

Beware of Lake Erie,it can turn very quickly from not bad to ‘where is my life jacket?’ and lets head in immediately to shore.

We had some 22 footers hit the south end of Lake Michigan here a few winters back, I went to the beach to check it out and it was legit the most terrifying thing I'd ever seen, just pure chaos. The lake looked like a giant pot of boiling water

I had a 50C (55ft) Sportfisherman in Lake Michigan.. 8-10 foot waves would bust spray over 20ft high over the flybridge radar arch in 30knt winds... I don't see many whitecaps on those waves, probably waves from other boats. My wife and I would go out on 6-8 seas nobody else would be out there. We had Lake Michigan all to ourselves!!😊

Those were around 5 footers at best but still would have scared the shat out of me!

Been on an Aircraft Carrier in the Southern Pacific in 1969 the waves were crashing ON the flight deck. Being a throttleman at the time I had the throttles to hold onto to... It was a rough ride but not as bad than the destroyer besides us.

I would say those were some big swells. 4-6 with the occasional 10-12 foot. Nice video!

one of my fondest childhood memories is fishing in lake erie with grandpa and dad and uncle bob. rowing the boat back to shore in 8 foot waves with our tackle boxes floating around the boat. Motor done for, everything under water. beer cans floating everywhere... got some fish tho. back out there next week. aaaaaah the seventies...

Beautiful and unpredictable Lake Erie. Like blowing on a saucer of water. Its a relatively shallow lake, but also a GREAT LAKE!

I have been boating on lake Erie, since 1978....those are 4 to 6 foot ...no way 8 to 10 foot!!

When I was 8yrs old we got caught in a storm in a sailboat. Waves were high enough to pick up the boat and throw it into the breakwall. Scariest day of my life.

At least you had a decent boat i been out in those on a 19 ft bowrider. Took like 2 hours to travel couple miles back zig zagging through the waves just watching the compass trying to stay south southwest

“Dude! I had a FORTY POUNDER on the line, but I had to cut him loose because we’re in 8-foot, following seas!” (He had nothing on the hook, and those were 4-5 footers, with an occasional six-foot swell. Still when out on the water, and ESPECIALLY the Great Lakes, better safe than sorry. Glad you guys made it in safely.)

Watch the forecast....crazy being out there

Me and a buddy learned our lesson fishing lake michigan with a 19ft flat bottom boat at night. High winds came out of nowhere and we had 4 miles to get back to GB.... easily waves like the one in this video. Thankfully the wind and waves were blowing back to GB and we rode the waves like a surfboard. Stayed calm and didn't freak out. Never again!

The waves always looks smaller on video, you have to hold the camera low over the side to get the best shot, but it might get wet. Also turning down the field of view really helps.

Been at sea during a storm and witnessed a Destroyer alongside disappear briefly completely under water. Yes, I have a understanding of the definition of "huge".

You were not in 19 foot waves. That's not what that readout was measuring.

Lake Erie has capsized more boats than any inland sea on the planet. This very likely could have been 12 foot windswell on the buoys which wouldn’t look like a 12 foot face but I can vouch for this guy he’s probably not bullshitting. Lake Erie can go from 2 feet to 12 feet in two hours

The highest waves ever recorded in Lake Michigan was 27 foot

*Laughs in Atlantic Ocean

I believe it!! Lake Erie is no joke!!! 😬✌🌊

Those summer squalls . . .

Fished in 5-6 all the time,we called them the walleye chop,had twin 225hp yamahas on 29' pursuit,anything less wouldn't do it.

Dude knows what hes doing. You can tell by the inverted backwards sun visor

I was going to Port Colborne, Ontario from Dunkirk, NY on a 30ft 89 Celebrity in 2008. We were taking 8'-10' waves in the middle from the left side. Boat would go up over the waves and slam into the water a few seconds later. I don't know how we made it. Now I refuse to go out if the winds are going to be strong.

8-12?? You tell your wife it’s 12 inches too. 😂😂😂

That's a 4 ft wave with a large swell

Been there, Lake Erie is no joke

My guess would be it’s measuring top to bottom of the drop, that make that 15 foot marker about 7.5, those look every bit of 5-8 footers which is indeed very sketchy but 12 footers is pushing record waves on Erie, I think the record is 13 out 14,

Been on the great lakes my whole life. Those are maybe 5 footers MAX

Dont ever go in the ocean , and that boat is perfectly capable he doesnt know how to drive the boat in harsh conditions. 16ft aluminum with a 15hp, plenty of fuel, 15 to 20 ft swells going to Catalina...

I worked with a man and I believe 5 of them drowned in a storm on Erie , tore the boat to hell, this was in the 80,s if I recall, time plays tricks when you get old, maybe late 70,s early 80,s, I read where the depth of Erie combines with severe storms to make hell.

I bet you caught a 5 foot fish that day too!

More like 5 foot waves

That looks like solid 4's from here.... when you're in it, they look like 8's though hahaha

Looks like the typical halibut opener in the NW. probably scary for you guys if you’re not used to rough water.

5-6 footers. But still nothing to shake a stick at

Even being the smallest one of the 5 she sure gets waves due to the depth of Erie. Im a fisherman from northwest Ohio

Calm day in the Atlantic.. lake boys really don’t know “waves”

Fellas, pls wear a life jacket when boating in the storm. Better safe than sorry. Cheers.

Whats amazing is how much worse they seem because theyre closer together than salt water waves

And the fish were as big as the waves!

I have been out there when the lake when to glass calm to 5footers in less than 1/2 hour. Scary stuff

Trim up on slow speed and on fast speeds trim down so the nose eats the waves well that's how ours is.

Wave height usually includes wavelength some days waves can be 3-4ft but be 8-10 long other days you can have 8-10 foots waves with the length being of the wave around 3-5ft. They use an average of both to give weave height readings.

Think how miserable that could have been without that pilothouse...

Those are not 8- 10 foot waves, 4 to 6 maybe. How do I know, raced a sailboat in northeasterner in 14 to 16 ft waves. Couldn't see below the spreader of other sailboat in different trough

Still wanting for the 8-10 footers

Fresh water, some breaking waves. Less than 20 knots, looks like confused 3-4 footers. A small craft on a day like that shouldn't even be out.

Most boaters check the weather…….just saying.

Been in 15ft sweels 50mph wind offshore, 3 times the size than this baby waves,on 21ft trophy,swell so high it was hitting the roof of hard top,in the back of the back of the boat 1ft of water...Praying to every god out there.We managed,But never again doing that.

been out there on my jet ski a few times like that, not that bad...in a boat...yeah a bit hairy.

Not Huge. I live on the West side of Kelly’s Island on the shoreline facing Perry’s Monument. When it’s blowing 50+ outta the Northwest, those r huge waves. They splash into my yard at times……..I’ve seen 10 to 12 foot waves easily

Those weren't 19-foot waves! That's as big as they ever get on Lake Erie. The largest recorded is only 13 feet. That would be in a full-blown Gale. That being said, you were out in some decent waves. 4-6 feet. With a few bigger rollers in the mix. That's big. I've been out in those conditions. Not fun. Good video.

Nice chop, but are you really wearing a visor or is that a Russian video AI hack?

I think those waves are bigger than they look 👀 on you tube to me they look like 6 to 8 foot waves but it’s just my opinion for what it worth.

3 to 5 at the top end.

Those are tiny waves get real bro, I've been out there in 3 times that caught in a real storm, these are just perfect size for the walleye bite.

Superior had 30-40ft in 75’

8 footers gtfoh more like 4-5 ft rollers

Lake Erie can be a death trap! Gets nasty real quick.

4 to 5 foot waves all day long

I spent a lot of time fishing out of Oregon Inlet. Those are not 12 foot waves. Barely half that.

I doubt that they were that big. The data you held to the screen were either from someplace else, or they were from the Rocky River Buoy. The Rocky River Buoy data matches your data well if the wave height were given in inches, not feet. That being said, the waves grew a lot bigger during the next hour after that at Rocky River, the largest waves there may have grown to 3-4 feet. Your waves were probably bigger because you were much further out from shore with a longer fetch then that Buoy. The 45005 Buoy further out in the lake might have been more representative of your conditions. The largest waves there approached 6 feet. What stands out is how fast the waves grew...they doubled in height in just an hour or so. The winds were surprisingly strong for about an hour around 4 PM and were almost a gale. This is particularly surprising considering that the water temperatures were several degrees cooler than the air temperatures. I have no idea what caused that brief windstorm but suspect it was a far-downstream effect of thunderstorm clusters in the hours before you were hit. A 5-6 foot wave whipped by a 30 knot near-gale is nasty and steep, and likely to undergo localized breaking or white capping. It would be a force to be reckoned with. That was a nasty wind storm out there and I would not have anticipated it in those conditions. Those were definitely rough conditions.

6ft rollers

We call them little rollers....lol

4 ft at most fish there every weekend

Absolutely not 12 feet

4 ft white caps seem like 8 footers, I've seen the lake go from flat to hell in 15 minutes, definetally have to watch the weather clos;ley

Been out in 18 tri haul and running in the swell were you couldn't see nothing but wave and sky and we jump would jump wave to wave till the boat split and we had to go in with pumps running and had to keep the boat running and back the trailer in the water and drove it on the trailer and it was fun but my buddys father wasn't to happy over splitting his boat in half but he had it fix 😂

😂those are just baby waves that’s perfect sailing weather dude! Grew up in Port Huron we regularly sailed and took power boats on lake Huron in conditions that bad and much worse.

2-3 foot waves. Try the Pacific for reference.

Those were not 19' waves! That was a 19 time stamp.

Power boaters getting all scared lol

4 to 6.

Dude that's like 3 to 4 tops.Come on over to the Atlantic Ocean if you wanna see 12 ft .

Sick backwards visor….

Those are swells not waves

I would never have gone 10 miles out without twin main outboards in the first place

Where's the 12 ft waves?

Honestly people on here cannot judge the wave height by a video. Waves are usually bigger than what you think it is on video. Erie is no joke when it gets rough out there. I would say 6-8 foot but again I cannot honestly judge by this video footage. Good size boat they had also. Been out in a 16.5 foot boat in 3-5's These are bigger than those were.

Not 12 footers

NIce fish!

I didn’t see waves higher than your cabin. Waves could be 20 feet and not a problem, depending on the period of the waves.

dannnnng. keep the bilg on my boi lmao

Not bad

lake erie waves are match lake superior waves

Honda!

it aint the waves ya gotta worry about👍🏼it's breathing underwater. lotz of things are like that🖖🏼

People sayin its 4 to 5 ft 😂😂😂. Thats 2 ft Hawaiian style seriously

Those are not 10-12 foot waves😂. Maybe 5-6ft swells. MAX. A true 10ft wave would swallow that boat.