Believe it or not, the Weather Channel's weather forecast has been reasonably trustworthy regardless of what other flyfishermen think. Today I have something to complain about the Weather Channel because its forecast was wrong. Actual wind of 25 mph all morning instead of 10 mph and that is what was wrong. Only three vehicles including mine at the parking lot and one of them was a die-hard dry-fly flyfisherman's pickup truck I had seen before.
Fighting at least 25 mph wind and whitecaps was not any fun, but fishing was. We all were "die-hard flyfishermen" for a day. I did not use any secret fly, but just plain 12-3X olive woolly bugger. Wind gusting and whitecaps got worse and worse over time. My baseball cap, shirts and of course my float tube got completely soaked. 90 minutes of flyfishing was all I could handle. My woolly bugger must have a magnetic personality because I ended up landing five nice bows in just 90 minutes and gusting winds. Combat flyfishing, but it was exciting and awesome.
S. Cho