There was no serious fishing to be done on the Columbia River today. This is a windy area on a nice day. Today wasn’t nice and Mike and I woke up to a steady 25 MPH with gusts up to 60. The trees around the house bent deep and instead of fishing we went for a hike through the hardwoods from the house. Despite the howl of wind it was a beautiful way to save a morning.
In the afternoon the need to fish took its grip. There was no way we were launching Mike’s boat but we decided to check out the carp lake. Unfortunately it was far to cold for them to be on the flats. We got blown around for about three hours and neither of us found a single carp to fish to.
There’s good news however. As I sit out on Mike’s deck this evening enjoying a Stormbreaker microbrew, I can see the wind dying on the Columbia a mile down the hill. And tomorrow’s forecast is for calm conditions. We’ll be back on the water bright and early and I suspect the walleye and smallmouth are in trouble!