[JohnR]

Guts to 60mph, power and telco lines down, dogs and cats falling from the sky, it's unnatural... But it sure felt like mid April this morning. Warm, hard south west winds... Then it got cold!!

What's your worst wind related fishing story??

I remember, must have been 93 or 94, fishing the Vineyard the weekend before labor day. We had a late afternoon ferry back to the mainland and decided, nasty weather or not, to get some last fishing in before we left. We loaded up the beer and bucktails and went to Wasque Point. Unfishable!! Wind was gusting to 50 mph from right to left. Cast straight out, reel in to get tension on the line but the bucktail was already dragging in the sand 100 feet down wind. Cast upwind, same story. The wind was blowing the sand so hard that the sand and small rocks along the beach were punching holes in our beer cans unless we put them below the high point of the sand. When we did that, the beer just got sand inside the can :'( ... (I rarely drink while fishing, often takes away from the experience :P )

After realizing what the blowing sand was doing to the beer cans, I went over to the only vehicle parked on the beach (we had our car up at the lot) where the owner was snoozing. I went over to the windward side of his nearly new Explorer and looked at the damage done. The sandblasting literally wore off the clear coat and was working on the regular paint. This nearly new Explorer had a dull finnish now!! He was tweaked when we woke him up and he was even more tweaked when he saw the side of his truck...

Never did get a hit that day...