Ok everyone, here is a tip. When the forecast calls for winds gusting to 50mph ... that's probably a bad day to go to Coyote. When Phil and I launched around 10am, I'd say it was blowing 20+. This continued for several hours, and we got no bites as we drifted down from the ramp towards the dam. Around 1 or 2pm, it started to die off. I finally got a good pop on the King Kobra jig around that same time. Brown jig with a mad man trailer. I set up good on the fish and the rod loaded up. I got about 5 turns of the handle on her before she swam almost straight at me, flashed and spit the jig out. I'm not sure if she was even hooked the way she spit the jig. Looked like about a 7lber :( :( That was my only bite for the day.

Being that the wind had died off and it was now raining, I decided to go for it and fish all the way to the dam. This was working out ok, although the fish sure weren't biting, until I started to oar back. It was almost the minute that I headed the other direction that the wind kicked back up. And when I came around the second point below 9lber point ... the wind hit like crazy. Between the wind and the now horizontal rain storm, I could oar into it at all. So I started pushing my boat like a sled in the shallow water, but this was not much better. After 45 minutes, I was whipped and I was still only to weedy point. Ugh. The rain was coming down harder and the wind was unreal, gusting to 30knts or more.

I dragged my boat up onto the shore and about 200 yards up to a pull out. What a nightmare. Then I thrilled to walking back over a mile to the ramp in my waders right into the wind :) Really and truly, it was the suckiest weather I've ever fished in. Total nightmare. Finally made it to the truck an hour and 45 minutes after I started from the dam.

I'm guessing that when this storm gets done with Coyote it's gonna be pretty blown out.

Here's a pic on the drive down:
http://www.calfishing.com/images/daily_reports/12_14_02_sunrise.jpg

Here's a pic during a lull in the wind. Notice the nice waves
http://www.calfishing.com/images/daily_reports/12_14_02_waves.jpg

Here is kickboating hell on the way back. This is after the full on whitecaps subsided some.
http://www.calfishing.com/images/daily_reports/12_14_02_wind.jpg