Stupid Weather

[FishingFool]

Leaving to go camping at Steamboat Rock tomorrow and check out this awesome forecast.


Last week when I booked our site, the weather forecast was suppose to be excellent.....
It's going to be just like 2 years ago.

[bassplayer17]

WELL AT LEAST THE WIND AIN'T BLOWIN 90 MILES AN HOUR

[hewesfisher]

NWS forecast for Banks Lake - http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... n%2C%20USA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ugly.

[FishingFool]

Loading up the truck. Yeah, this is not looking good, LOL. I guess there will be lots of cuddle time.

[AJ's Dad]

Be carefull out there. The wind can get very ugly on Banks and mother nature doesn't read the weather report. You may think you are only going to see a 10 mile an hour wind, then it turns in to a 25 mile an hour pain in the a$$ and big rollers.

[MarkFromSea]

Woke up this morning to the sound of pounding rain drops.... The first thing that went through my head was the thought of you over there having fun in this weather..... Guessing and hoping that the rain isn't as bad there being one of the driest portions of the state. Best of Luck!

[rickydbasser]

Have a friend over there now. Says for the last 4 days he only gets about 3 hours of fishing in before the wind chases him off the lake. Waves sometimes as high as 5 ft.. Couldn't even fish Ausborn Bay. Not good fishing anywhere.

[MarkFromSea]

I fished pond 6, I-82, on Saturday. It was a good day, warm, sunny, fish weren't biting though. Tons of fry near the banks. LOL Robyn spent time in the casino while I fished. We looked at pond 4, not much time, we finished the day with family in Wapato eating goat and other delicacies before heading back to the wet side.

5 foot waves! Oh crap! That's no fun at all........

I think I heard a term on the tube the other day, weather report: "June Gloom" LOL Pretty soon, it'll be too hot. LOL

[hewesfisher]

Woke up this morning to the sound of pounding rain drops.... The first thing that went through my head was the thought of you over there having fun in this weather..... Guessing and hoping that the rain isn't as bad there being one of the driest portions of the state. Best of Luck!

Lots of rain and wind right now. Spring is always hit or miss with Eastern WA weather. Yesterday temps at my place were 50° at 5am, 48° at 8am, 45.5° at 3pm and 47° at 6pm - never broke 50° yesterday. Hard rain Monday night into Tuesday, rain off & on yesterday.

Rain again overnight last night, current temp of 41° and winds near 30mph at my place this morning. Yesterday's high was predicted to be 57° and we didn't get to 50°, today's predicted high is only 54°, so I'll bet we don't see 50° again today.

[MarkFromSea]

OUCH! Well, I'm guessing FishingFool is getting a LOT of that cuddling time he mentioned earlier......... I think I saw an 80 degree temp somewhere next week or so, in a forecast.

[bassplayer17]

OUCH! Well, I'm guessing FishingFool is getting a LOT of that cuddling time he mentioned earlier......... I think I saw an 80 degree temp somewhere next week or so, in a forecast.

Yes its gotta get better... Last year on fathers day fishin banks it was 75-85 all weekend was great.. Stop at soaplake pickup dad and do it again this year..Come on 80's

[FishingFool]

We're back.... 2 days early, LOL!

Oh man. On Monday when we left, I didn't bother removing the boat cover. First time towing 200 miles with the cover on. Wasn't sure how it would handle. On the way there, rain, rain and more rain. We eventually get to the east side and it's still rain everywhere.



We get to Coulee City and it's pouring, lol. As we get closer to Steamboat at about 2PM, it looked like it was going to downpour over the area. But when we got to our campsite, it was just a light rain. It actually stopped raining briefly, so we hurried up and setup our tent. Looking around our tent pad, it was covered in poop. Geese and dear poop. Ugh. Never had this problem before. Rain, and now poop. *sigh* Kicked and brushed away what I could.

We finish just in time as the rain was back. We go inside the truck and make sandwiches for lunch. After lunch, we finish checking in and look around for a bit. You can definately see the dark clouds getting closer. So we decided not to launch the boat and just fish around the park area.

We both caught a small SMB there. Tons of geese and their poop. They really need to do something about all the geese.




The clouds did roll in, but it wasn't heavy rain. It was just a light drizzle if anything. We definately should have taken the boat out, lol. Oh wells.

We go to bed and soon afterwards oh man. It was heavy rain. Woke up to a few strong gust shaking the tent, blair witch style. So Tues morning, it was raining pretty good. We decided to visit the Wife's parents in Spokane, lol. Made it a day over there instead. By the time, we got back to Steamboat, it was late, but we did pull over on the side of the highway and fished for a few minutes. Nothing there.

We decided whatever happens on Weds, we will go out on the boat no matter what. Didnt towing it 200 miles for nothing. Woke up to surprise, rain rain rain, lol. At least it wasn't as windy.

Jerry rigged an umbrella against a chair and made a nice breakfast. Put on our rain gear and removed the cover on the boat. Got it on the water and off we went. Rain has stopped by now actually. We putted towards the Barker Canyon flat area. We were at a point with these high rocks. I thought it was deep enough for me to go over but I whacked my trolling motor against one of them... :( Anyways within 5 mins, we had 3 fish on. 2 SMB jumped off at boat side and 1 walleye landed. We continue working that area forabout 30 mins with not even a bite. We tried the shallow area for a bit with nada. So I started heading towards another point. We fished it for about 10 mins and the wind started to pick up and here comes the waves...We figure now is the time to head back in and take cover.


It was like the Deadliest Catch to us, since we typically don't fish in this type of weather on the water,lol. The waves were parallel to the direction back we needed to go. Had a couple of waves splash over the gunnel and got us good. Lol, it was intense. I was afraid of gunning it. Was cruising at about 7 MPH trying not to die. Eventually there was a slight break in the wind and waves. Finally got to go WOT and hauled out back to the launch. A bass boat I spotted fishing near the Barkers Flat area goes flying by to take cover too.

The entire lake looked super windy. We checked the forecast for tomorrow and it was suppose to be more rain. So we cut our trip short and packed up. While leaving, it was actually beautiful, lol. Nice and sunny. But very windy.

I didn't get a chance to use my new "Shakey Head" pole. :(

[MarkFromSea]

Oh Dude! Sorry to hear that! Sounds like an adventure at least. Did this trip top the trip of two years ago? LOL Well, like a good friend tells me, "Better you than me!" Hopefully you still have a trip or two in store when summer actually starts showing us some warmth.

[hewesfisher]

Finally cleared up late yesterday, and sun is shining this morning, but another big storm front is on the way and supposed to arrive by afternoon. Not a good week to be camping or fishing from an open boat. Too bad your trip got weathered out. Normally, spring is a little nicer than this, but spring weather here is always unpredictable.

Sounds like you had a good time anyway.

[FishingFool]

Well this week looks like it's going to be awesome at Steamboat. FFFFFUUUU

[MarkFromSea]

If the car is still packed, head back over.......... Ouch for sure!

['OL GREY DOG]

no more La Nina YAAYYYYYY .... now "they" say we're going to have El Nino .... LORDY