So, talking with my fishing buddy this evening as we get ready to launch in the morning and he's not real confident tomorrow because of a consistent east wind.

 

Now I've been fishing for over 50 years and never heard this before, not once.

He's an older fellow, older than I and claims the fish are preparing for a front and get lockjaw and that cows lie down. Lol 

 

Can someone shed some light on this ?

I'm still fishing regardless.

 

 

Wind's from the east, fish bite the least.   Wind from the west, fishing is best.....as my father used to tell me some 50 years ago

2 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

Wind's from the east, fish bite the least.   Wind from the west, fishing is best.....as my father used to tell me some 50 years ago

Just did a search here and see where it was actually a topic some years ago...... thankyou

4 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

Wind's from the east, fish bite the least.   Wind from the west, fishing is best.....as my father used to tell me some 50 years ago

Winds from the south, the hook goes in they're mouth. Heard this as a kid also.

5 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

Wind's from the east, fish bite the least.   Wind from the west, fishing is best.....as my father used to tell me some 50 years ago

Wind from the south, fish open their mouth. Wind from the North, don’t venture forth.

If the wind is from the sky, I'm gonna try.

I find I catch far more fish when I go fishing versus sitting on the couch. 

 

Wind speed and direction might effect my lake selection, but it wouldn't stop me from going or hurt my confidence. 

Northeast wind in SoCal means high winds we call Santa Anna’s general sustained 30 to 70 mph.

My mom always told us wind from the east fish bite least and from the west fish bite best. Where I grew up this was true as east winds were rare in the mountains and strong creating dangerous white capped lake conditions. 

Tom

I look at the 10 day forecast for temp, wind speed, and baro pressure. I don’t give a lot of thought to wind direction. Some days I know beforehand that I want to be sure to be on the water on a certain day. I’m no expert, just something I saw on Bill Dance a long time ago.

 

If I can go....I go

The best numbers day I ever had  for bass was on a strong west wind. I don’t recall ever having a problem catching fish on an east wind though.

A southwest wind in saltwater here is always bad fishing though.

Best from the WEST

Least from the East.............It sure is true in my bay & River.  

54 minutes ago, Bird said:

So, talking with my fishing buddy this evening as we get ready to launch in the morning and he's not real confident tomorrow because of a consistent east wind.

 

Now I've been fishing for over 50 years and never heard this before, not once.

He's an older fellow, older than I and claims the fish are preparing for a front and get lockjaw and that cows lie down. Lol 

 

Can someone shed some light on this ?

I'm still fishing regardless.

 

 

"East is least, west is best" is a thing on the east coast for a lot of fish, not so much for LMB.

2 minutes ago, cyclops2 said:

Best from the WEST

Least from the East.............It sure is true in my bay & River.  

Raritan?

East/north winds = cold fronts/high pressure = fish get lockjaw

Makes good logic. A   N Easter really pains my joints. 

10 minutes ago, cyclops2 said:

Makes good logic. A   N Easter really pains my joints. 

Maybe this is what the fish are feeling as well... 

Ok it's something to this east wind.

I'll just sit home tomorrow and watch Whoopi Goldberg instead of a skunk..... yeah.

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A day of fishing is far better then doing Whoopi !!    ?

i dont usually do as well on an east wind,BUT if im off and i can go i go. always better to be out there.

The wind doesn’t blow from the east where I live. Maybe twice a year at most, usually a hurricane 

If I can fish the east shore of Saginaw Bay in the summer, when water temps are sometimes too high, and the wind is from the east, it will push the warm water away and bring cooler water in.  And most likely fishing will be better than if the wind was from the west.  

37 minutes ago, CrashVector said:

East/north winds = cold fronts/high pressure = fish get lockjaw

This time of year that is usually accurate. An east or northeast wind is almost always occurring as low pressure is moving in for a storm. Then, as the storm leaves, high pressure takes over. In the spring, a warming trend with a west or southerly wind is almost always better.

 

However, in the heat of summer, an east wind with an incoming low pressure front is almost always one of my best fishing periods of the season. It often breaks a period of high pressure with hot, dry, sunny weather and turns the fish on big time. Last season we lacked these weather changes in June and July, and when we got them in August I had my best fishing of the season.

The wind blows something like one of these directions 99% of the time according to my extremely accurate personal weather data (hehe). If it’s coming from the east something is bad wrong, last I can recall was that Saharan dust storm a few years ago 

 

 

(when it’s coming straight from the south out of the gulf, you’re going to get wet. When it’s coming from directly west, the weatherman will be completely wrong no matter what he predicts) 

Screw all y'all. I'm from the Windy City

 

High barometric pressure and east winds go hand in hand and we all know that high pressure means tough fishing.