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| Why do people say that east winds are bad for muskie fishing?
Does anyone agree or do you guys think that is totally wrong? |
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | Probably has more to due with a weather system than anything.Normally when a cold front passes,you get some sort of a east wind from the back side as high pressure sets up behind the low.A few years ago during the Pomme de Terre fall tournament we boated a record number of fish on a sunny day with east winds....so go figure.
Edited by missourimuskyhunter 7/2/2009 10:14 PM
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| The old saying is, " wind from the east fishing is least, wind from the west fishing is best". |
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| Yeah, I think it was a couple drunk guys at the bar that came up with that "old saying".LOL. East wind on Mille Lacs was magic. |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | I'm pretty impartial myself. I can't say a day on the water for me with an easterly wind has been anymore or less successful than other days...? |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Two summers ago on our Canadian trip, my friend hit the jackpot with a four fish day where they totaled easily over 100# in aggregate. Guess which direction the wind was blowing. Hint: It wasn't North, South or West.
Was the wind the key factor? Maybe, but I doubt it. All I know is it sure didn't hurt.
I remember a trip to Lac Seul for the walleye opener back in the early 80's. The wind blew from the east practically all the time we were up there. Extremely strange weather pattern that had the fish totally shut down on all our known hot spots. But guess what? The bit like crazy when we figured out where they moved and we wound up with fish just a big or bigger than our average for that annual trip. Just had to adapt to the conditions like the fish did.
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Location: Twin Cities | I'd bet it's more of a fisherman thing than a fish thing.... |
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| I can say spring and fall, I love east winds, as long as there is still cloud cover or light rain with them.
have caught some hefty fish during those so called unfavorable winds  |
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| A muskie angler you may have heard of named Joe Bucher discounts most all fishing related sayings EXCEPT: "Winds form the East fish bite the Least!" If it's good enough for Bucher it's good enough for me. I think he may have a little time on the water under his belt. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | JRedig - 7/2/2009 1:20 PM
I'd bet it's more of a fisherman thing than a fish thing....
I agree... I think the sayings go:
"Winds from the East, fish bite least"
"Winds from the West, fish don't bite the best"
"Winds from the North, fish bite the least"
"Winds from the South, fish bite the least"
You see, it's all relative to how good of a fisherman you are!!  |
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| Not EVERYTHING that comes from the lips of "Pros" is gospel. Perhaps it's just "prose". Just fish. |
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Location: WI | Right on Steve, I for one sure am glad fish dont read magazines or the internet.
I have several lakes where East winds are magic! |
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Location: Wisconsin | Some wind, regardless of the direction, is better than no wind. Except when it isn't.
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| sometimes they go sometimes they dont... Just hit your spots according to the wind.
some wind directions will shutdown certain areas and light up other ones.
There is no absolutes and no certainties, and as you see from the posts, some record days came from east winds and some people get complete skunks from east winds..
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| oh the magic of talk |
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Location: Watertown, MN | Steve
Good point, I would never fish in minnesota on north wind or east, fish always shutdown on coldfronts, didn't they read the rules. Start looking for spots that face east, since east is not common wind I would guess most you fish are not east facing, and more likely to faces south southwest. Never say never. Remeber weather system follow wind in clock motion.
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| Sunset Bay......East wind.......shiver me timbers........lol |
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Location: WI | Heres a dandy we caught yesterday in an east wind. My little buddies new PB.
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| East, west, north or south...whatever. More important is how hard it's blowing. Any wind better than none. But I hate those days when it's gale force. |
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| lake st clair sucks on east winds. its rough, floating weeds flushing. plus its rain gauranteed within 24 hours. nor easters are worse and they come for 3 days. |
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| Guest - 7/2/2009 10:19 AM
Why do people say that east winds are bad for muskie fishing?
Does anyone agree or do you guys think that is totally wrong?
When the wind is from the north, fishers should not venture forth;
When the wind is from the east, fishing is at its very least;
When the wind is from the south, it blows the bait into the fish's mouth;
When the wind is from the west, fishing is at its very best.
True? Who knows? |
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| DJS - 7/2/2009 1:27 PM
A muskie angler you may have heard of named Joe Bucher discounts most all fishing related sayings EXCEPT: "Winds form the East fish bite the Least!" If it's good enough for Bucher it's good enough for me. I think he may have a little time on the water under his belt.
If the man that invented night fishing says that, it must be true, but remember, it could be giving the illusion of speed!  |
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| I read an article recently that touched on this issue. The article said that, in many locations, an east wind is associatd with a cold front, and we all know that cold fronts can slow fish activity. Personally, here in SW MI, I've been fishing for walleye almost every day for the last 2 months and an east wind just means that I shift my focus to structure that typically does not receive waves from that direction. Fish are holding closer to structure, or are sitting on the bottom off from that structure, and they always bite. A heavy east wind at night puts those walleyes on the top and edge of wind-blown flats and I hold my boat in deeper water as I cast onto the flats and twitch a big Rapala husky jerk across the shallow water and thru some deeper water as the lure approaches the boat. If I really have to slow down, I use my electric motor to position my boat over the deep away from the east-blown drop off and use jigging spoons and leaches to put the presentation right down on their noses. I crank up the gain and watch the fish finder to figure out what those fish want, just like ice fishing. Tell you what, no one will ever convince me that a 55# Minn Kota Maxxum is too big for a 14' alum boat; that motor is powerful and with a huge deep cycle battery a full charge lasts maybe 20 hours of regular use.
Last, if that east wind is truly the first impact of a new cold front, then head to a river where cold fronts seem to have much less impact on fish behavior. |
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| Yeah, I think it was a couple drunk guys at the bar that came up with that "old saying".LOL. East wind on Mille Lacs was magic.
Was it magic last year? LOL |
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Location: Ames, Iowa | Missouri MH hit it right on.
The saying is Winds from the west, fishin's at its best... Winds from the east fishin's at its least. Probably has some merit as we all know fishins better right before the front/storm comes thru, overall falls off with the cooler post front weather. But some places the muskie obviously don't know that.
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| Another old saying "Red sky in the morning sailor take warning. Red sky at night sailors delight". Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with an east wind but maybe it does? |
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| Totally wrong.... I know multiple muskie lakes where the fish go bananas when the wind switches to the east and the front comes in. I know I am on the water before, during, and after the front. I definitely agree with the Sunset Bay comment. |
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| I personally have gotten all my biggest fish, other than in Green Bay, in an east wind or SE. I remember reading an article by Tom Gelb a few years back that was really good about weather patterns. He mentioned that in the midst of an appoaching storm, SW winds or W winds with fronts, the action was really good, however it was strictly numbers. Obviously this is a general observation. Then after that storm pushed out, and you had a clear sky the next day or 2, N or E wind the big fish then would snap. Its weird, but true in a sense!
Hey a east winds, beast absolutley NO WIND |
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