Yeah,the wind can be a pain out here.more often than not the high winds don't extend very far west from Sultan.If I'm dumb enough to try in this weather,and I usually am,I like fling spoons because I think it's probably easier,than with bait, to feel a fish with a bowed line.Obviously timing my casts between gusts.Short casts,angled downriver and I'll put my rod tip at water level to try and keep the wind from really bowing my line.