East wind?-whats your opinion

[flounder5791]

Well , weve all heard that an east wind recks the fishing but seen as its been blowing an east wind for the last 2-3 weeks is it worth fishing or should you just stay at home and wait for it to change and does it make much of a difference to piers or deep water marks or is it just the shallow marks thanks in advance

[kieranring]

From my expierence both freshwater and sea fishing you'ld be better off staying at home.

[tex]

Stay at home,bake a cake,tie rigs... Anything except fishing

[donal domeney]

Old saying "winds from the east fishes the least"

[jhcabs]

I find this confusing. I thought a good east wind on the east coast was ur best chance for a bass as it picks up a surf? Actually most of them I've caught have been east, and south east.

[gfkelly1969]

fish a east facing mark on the east wind and you should get a few

[chuckaroo]

this topic has been discussed before on the forum
my opinion is included here:
http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bull ... nd#p272722

[jhcabs]

I still can't agree on any other opinion in that thread either. It's goes against everything I learned about catching sea bass in the surf. They hunt and follow there food. I can completely understand the point of a knock on affect up the chain, but they traditional view is the surf dislodges bait food. I fished today and not a nibble. I know it's very early in the season but the conditions looked perfect. Tables of surf rolling in, gullies and blouders to wash out small bait food for predators. I have to admit that reading this article ruined my optimistic mood I had all week looking forward to getting out a bagging an early season silver. I'm going to brave the south Wexford beaches again tomorrow hoping to prove this argument doesn't have As much truth as people think. Wish me luck as its swinging north east so it's gonna b cold

[johnrooney]

Well I have been fishing at least twice at week for the last 8 weeks and hadn't had a blank until last week. Since then I have 2 blanks and very poor fishing. On Friday night I had 3 rods out and was with 2 very experienced anglers, we had 1 small dab between the 3 of us. I am not sure if it is just the wind or does it coincide with spanning but it's very very quiet at the minute.

[jhcabs]

I still can't agree on any other opinion in that thread either. It's goes against everything I learned about catching sea Bass in the surf. They hunt and follow there food. I can completely understand the point of a knock on affect up the chain, but they traditional view is the surf dislodges bait food. I fished today and not a nibble. I know it's very early in the season but the conditions looked perfect. Tables of surf rolling in, gullies and blouders to wash out small bait food for predators. I have to admit that reading this article ruined my optimistic mood I had all week looking forward to getting out a bagging an early season silver. I'm going to brave the south Wexford beaches again tomorrow hoping to prove this argument doesn't have As much truth as people think. Wish me luck as its swinging north east so it's gonna b cold

Well that was just a terrible idea. completely un-fishable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5PSYLUkpaw

[razor2]

East wind well it would not be my first choice to fish in but i have had a few fish with a east wind.Sometimes i listen to people going on about the right conditions but if we were to wait for the right conditions we never get out.A lot of the time people read to much into it, fish with the mind set of catching nothing and if you get one its a bonus but i def fish an east wind i would never rule it out to fish in ..

[paul skelly]

Fished courtown on Saturday with a strong east wind and had 7 fish in 2 and a half hour so it doesn't kill the fishing totally but ain't what u'd call pleasure fishing

[emmet22]

stay at home you cant beat the south westerlies