This Blows......

Whats up with this wind...
TONIGHT
NW WINDS 20 TO 30 KT WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 38 KT .
WIND WAVES 5 TO 8 FT. NW SWELL 10 TO 13 FT AT 10 SECONDS.

SUN
NW WINDS 20 TO 30 KT WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 38 KT.
WIND WAVES 4 TO 8 FT. NW SWELL 9 TO 12 FT AT 10 SECONDS.

SUN NIGHT
NW WINDS 20 TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 5 TO 8 FT.
NW SWELL 9 TO 10 FT AT 9 SECONDS.

MON
NW WINDS 20 TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 4 TO 6 FT.
NW SWELL 9 TO 10 FT AND S 2 FT.

MON NIGHT
NW WINDS 25 TO 35 KT. COMBINED SEAS 10 TO 13 FT.

TUE
N WINDS 25 TO 35 KT. COMBINED SEAS 10 TO 13 FT.

WED
N WINDS 20 TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 4 TO 6 FT.
NW SWELL 10 TO 12 FT AND SW 2 FT.

THU
NW WINDS 20 TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 4 TO 6 FT.
NW SWELL 10 TO 12 FT AND SW 2 FT.

Welcome to rockfish season! 

Mark that's not windy I'm in Springfield MO and it's blowing 30mph and the locals think it calm good thing they don't have an ocean

I hear you Mark! I'm getting tired of flying my kite.

By the time it calms down the season might be over.

Perfect timing, I have jobs stacked on top of each other. Hit Big Sur for a loooong camp/fish/chill.

My wife and I were camping at Doran Park this weekend.  I shouldn't have bothered taking a yak.  The waves were about 1 foot high (no surfing), and the wind was screaming (no fishing).  Even the kite surfer guys were having a hard time of it.  But, once they got going, they were really moving out.  You should have seen the look my wife shot me when I said we could sell her yak and buy a kite board.  She was not amused!!

It looks like it's going to start calming down Friday........could this weekend be the "real" opener!?

FRI
S WINDS 5 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 2 FT OR LESS.
NW SWELL 7 TO 9 FT AND SW 2 FT.

I had pretty good success in the wind the other day after work.  I tied off to the lee side of kelp with my long bunchie cord kelp tether, then casted in downwind directions with a smaller spinning setup and a light jig.  Once I felt I covered an area, I moved on to another kelp bed.  Got six assorted rockies and a ling this way....and I launched a 5 P.M.

There are too much seas now, but this technique works good when it's blowing and the seas aren't too bad.

Also, some good news:  The kelp is coming in really thick this year - at least around the mendo area.

But yeah, this blows.

this wind must be mother-nature's way of sustaining the rockfish population.

this wind must be mother-nature's way of sustaining the rockfish population.

Or of punishing the SF Bay Halibut population!