hit the lake at 10,sunny,no wind nice day to fish.headed over to the south end of mercer island and droped gear to 40ft.started going 1.8 mph.then the wind came up a little.my 14 ft. boat handeled it pretty well.well it got much worse.water coming over side and spray everywhere.my manual downrigger early released afew times.reeled my gear in to find fat little koke on.packed it in and headed back.it started snowing and hailing.3 ft swells.graphed alot of fish and bait balls.anyway i got a fish and made it back safely.