Newport area is on fire!!

[goosefish]

Blew up fast yesterday. One minute it was blowing 5 kts the next minute it was puffing up to 30 kts.

[Cool Beans]

Yep, a friend and I were fishing from Pier 2 on the navy base for Tog and he almost got blown in the water a few times when the wind picked up and blew alot of sand and small gravel into our faces. He lost his footing and luckily ended up taking a hard "sit down" onto the cement edge of the pier and not in the water. all we caught were 2 tiny fish about 4 inches long.

We had a boat reserved from the base earlier in the day (before the wind picked up) and luckily we checked the weather report and decided against taking that lil 19 footer and 40 hp outboard into that gale. It could have been a bad day.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by goosefish

Blew up fast yesterday. One minute it was blowing 5 kts the next minute it was puffing up to 30 kts.

We had a couple of gusts over 50MPH up here in the NW hills.