Questions about the east wind?

1.Can anyone shed any light on why we have poor fishing when there's an east wind?
2.Is the whole country affected in the same way, ie if you are on the west coast of the country the fishing is poor, but on the east coast of the country the fishing is good?
3.Does it matter if its S.E or N.E and does as the wind increases does its effect on fishing increase?

Northerly seems to kill the fishing down in Courtmac stone dead too.

Having said that it may just be a convenient excuse?

a bit of wind coming onto the shore is always good unless your fishing for ray or plaice. the wind will help create the waves which churn up the bottom and dislodge worms sandeels etc which in turn get the fish feeding. it also depends from which direction the wind is blowing if its coming down from the north then there is usually a drop in the temp which some fish are sensitive to and will move off shore. i live on the east cost and during the summer months the best fishing is always two or three days after a high tide when there has been a south easterly gale/breeze and the sea is nice and churned up.

i remember an old angler telling me :"the wind from the east the fish feed the least ,wind from the west the fish feed the best".in my part of the country he is spot on east wind kills the fishing dead!!!!

Deader than a dead thing that's been dead a long time. I hate fishing in an east wind.

one day at lenen a strong east wind was blowing, and a friend of mine, one of the locals. who has been fishing all his life said to me,
if an east wind is blowing, your burgerd!! your just wasteing your time. i fished all day and blanked, not even a bite. the next day the wind had changed and it was a fish on every cast!!

i remember an old angler telling me :"the wind from the east the fish feed the least ,wind from the west the fish feed the best".in my part of the country he is spot on east wind kills the fishing dead!!!!

Theres a good saying around here:

'If the wind is from the East go on the Beer'

out west i find the north easterly really kills it

JEANY MACK i have to say i find south easterly winds great to fish in.

So can we say east coast west wind bad, west coast east wind bad?

In my limited experience around the north west, an east wind kills the fishing stone dead, and my da and uncles, all of whom have been comercial fishermen at some stage in their lives would all say east wind, forget about it!

See the below links..
note the winds and the results...
IMO wind direction is irrelevant but check out out the tides on these dates...both are a few days before either full/new moon....in short tides are more important than winds, the bigger the better, and it only seems to be big tides leading up to the moon phase that produce not the equally big tides the few days after which can have very poor fishing..for ray anyway.

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Yeah but, talking with some grizzled oldtimers in my Salmon/Trout club, they also reckon that an East wind is no good for fishing. No tides 50 miles inland.....

Weird. But then again, fish are weird anyway.

So can we say east coast west wind bad, west coast east wind bad?

I love a good westerly in Wexford, brings my buddys out in numbers (usually !)

just to throw a spanner in the works, i know commercial fisherman who see a drastic fall in fish numbers when theres an easterly blowing...

Im out with Culdaff SAC on Sunday and theres a moderate North easterly forecast so, it'll be interesting to see how it goes

:lol:

out west i find the north easterly really kills it

i clearly know nothing, i had good fishing last night with a NE

Im out with Culdaff SAC on Sunday and theres a moderate North easterly forecast so, it'll be interesting to see how it goes

We didnt get out as it was too rough!

I tried a great Bass spot last night on a NEE wind. Dirty night and a high surf running... not a sniff.
Should have gone on the beer with Danny....

I tried a great Bass spot last night on a NEE wind. Dirty night and a high surf running... not a sniff.
Should have gone on the beer with Danny....

The whole south coast/southeast is not fisable at the moment, the water is full loose lumps of kelp the size of cars !

Well its funny you mention that Danny, because your not the first to say that this week - however strangely enough I did not encounter one single bit of weed the whole night (well, 2hrs anyway ). There must have been a force 6 or 7 blowing.
I had several casts on both rods and not a bit of weed. I was at a recommended spot on the south coast, with 5ft rollers coming in. Lot of kelp on the beach but none in the water.... (bit like the fish! ).

Hopefully there'll be a few calm days to clear the affected spots so we can all get back into it.