Russ,
After reading your post, I thought about the monsterous back-up I was stuck in on I-5 in the morning due to multiple accidents during a huge downpour, and those little whitecaps I saw later around 12:30 while crossing the I-90 bridge must've been isolated cases, so I checked the weather stats for Saturday at http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KBFI/2003/1/4/DailyHistory.html

Wind speeds were around 10-15, with gusts to 23mph for most of the afternoon, and they listed under events, "Rain, Thunderstorm"

Certainly not a blow-hard like Riffe or Sprague, but not "light winds" and "just a little rain" either.  Of course, all us bass fishermen like to embellish a little, don't we?   

well, I nearly missed it - I got up at 6.30 and the wind and rain in Edmonds were pretty miserable so I watched the International Bass Cup, that is until Russ called me and told me the place was flat and calm.

I launched at about 845am from East Mercer, and as Russ said, it was flat and calm. The rain and wind came in sporadic bursts throughout the day - the roughest water we encountered was up near Bill Gates place, but even then it was less than half as bad as the rough stuff Brian Walker and I fished last year.

We hit a few average sized Perch in a couple of spots, but could not find any smallies  typical for me I suppose. Shame we didn't meet up with Brian Walker out there, I would have loved to get Bryan (Hooiser Bryan) a smallie for his first time out on Lake WA. Would'nt have minded one myself either.

I guess I'm just more desparate to catch the critters than most, probably because I haven't caught that many yet, I'll probably calm down in five or so years

See ya at the Banquet!!!