owen
Active Member
Posts: 184
|
Post by owen on Apr 7, 2009 7:23:32 GMT
I've heard people talking about how wind direction affects fish behaviour, an east wind being the one that comes up over and over as a bad one for putting fish down.
Questions:
What is happening when an east wind blows that puts fish off? (Or is this just fishermen putting themselves off?)
Is there any way around it by using specific tactics?
Is this east wind problem localised? (I've heard it on the east coast of scotland where I fish but also recently on the north coast)
Do other wind directions have different affects and is the opposite, i.e. a west wind, the ideal wind?
Many thanks,
Nolon.
|
|
tweedsider
Active Member
Quietness is best
Posts: 993
|
Post by tweedsider on Apr 7, 2009 15:17:15 GMT
No one likes an east wind around these parts.
"When the winds in the east
The fish bite the least"
20 years lobster fishing and angling charter seemed to confirm this, farmers say that neither livestock, nor crops thrive in an east wind, south east being particularily bad. But there again farmers are like fishermen and anglers, in that they have nothing to moan about lets try the weather! Having said that I would never let an east wind stop me from fishing provided I was not casting into the teeth of half a gale. When the flea 's in the waiter there 's ayeways a chance.
Tweedsider
|
|
conwyrod
Advisory Board
Autumn on the Conwy
Posts: 4,659
|
Post by conwyrod on Apr 7, 2009 17:21:30 GMT
"when the wind is in the west, the fishing is best"
An east wind is usually cold, salmon always take better when the air temp is higher than the water temp, within reason.
|
|
hf
Active Member
Posts: 1,807
|
Post by hf on Apr 7, 2009 17:51:25 GMT
If an east wind is given time to settle in and stay then it is very difficult to remove. This happened last year in the north and it was weeks rather than days before it left. No one enjoys it!
hf
|
|
owen
Active Member
Posts: 184
|
Post by owen on Apr 10, 2009 8:17:33 GMT
Thanks guys, in addition to reducing the air temp as conwyrod says does this wind also affect air pressure? Is anyone convinced pressure makes any difference, I remember Graham was keeping an eye on it vs catches?
|
|
Speyducer
Advisory Board
Release to spawn another day
Posts: 4,123 
|
Post by Speyducer on Apr 10, 2009 8:32:47 GMT
It's differential air pressure that causes winds anyway - the wind being the movement of air from higher towards lower pressure areas.
It seems that East winds bring the colder winds, and thus puts the fish off somewhat more.
I'm sure that this is just a very simplistic view, however!
Mike
|
|
