Good Wind or Bad Wind?

[darylive]

No, not that sort of wind .

Riddle me this:

We fish the windward bank because the trash and treasure, bait and what ever is blown to that bank and the fish hunt there, Yes?

But...
Schools of fish move into the wind Yes?

If the fish are moving against the wind how do they get to the windward bank?

Is the wind any more than a bloody nuisance? Perhaps a little takes the gloss of the water making your approach less obvious but as for
"The wind is you friend".

What are your thoughts.

Pardon

[robersl]

daryl that is just to deep to think about at this time of day

shane

[Whitto]

Always had a better day when there is wind.......Not as good a day with a glass out.......I only fish one way for Bass......Find and Mark the school.....drift over the school and jig.....IF Bass are on the chew (u can see Bass feeding on your sounder)..they will either nail you slider on the way down or on the slow roll off the bottom on the way back up...Bass will go off the chew as quickly as they come on.....they are a great street fighter

[NAGG]

Or is it because the plankton is blown with the wind / currents & the smaller bait fish that feed on them follow the concentrations - Then the bigger fish ( which have become accustomed / tuned to this phenomenon) realise they have an easy feed attend the smörgåsbord.

Just my thought

Chris

[darylive]

Always had a better day when there is wind.......Not as good a day with a glass out.......I only fish one way for Bass......Find and Mark the school.....drift over the school and jig.....IF Bass are on the chew (u can see Bass feeding on your sounder)..they will either nail you slider on the way down or on the slow roll off the bottom on the way back up...Bass will go off the chew as quickly as they come on.....they are a great street fighter

I am with you on that Whitto. Last weekend nothing worked, for any one but a very few 7 fish out of somerset. There was plenty of wind, a little too much for my liking. Yes a little wind is OK and that's when I have had most success. Perhaps the schools move faster as when the wind is faster, perhaps chasing smaller things as Chris suggested. Even having located a school it was hard to keep with them.

Unfortunately I forgot to pick up my marker buoy at some stage on the weekend having lobbed it over a school it wasn't until I went to lob it again later in the day and it was gone I realised what I had done . The marker was a beauty to, a foam dumbbell with the cord wrapped around the centre tied to a snapper sinker. Keep an eye out for it when you mob are share farming red claw pots at Somerset.

There is a lot to be said for using slices of bread as markers. You don't have to collect them and they may even help hold the fish .

Anyway the schools swim into the wind you say?
If so on a steady wind day do they all end up at one end of the Dam .

Pardon

[NAGG]

I am with you on that Whitto. Last weekend nothing worked, for any one but a very few 7 fish out of somerset. There was plenty of wind, a little too much for my liking. Yes a little wind is OK and that's when I have had most success. Perhaps the schools move faster as when the wind is faster, perhaps chasing smaller things as Chris suggested. Even having located a school it was hard to keep with them.

Unfortunately I forgot to pick up my marker buoy at some stage on the weekend having lobbed it over a school it wasn't until I went to lob it again later in the day and it was gone I realised what I had done . The marker was a beauty to, a foam dumbell with the cord wrapped around the centre tied to a snapper sinker. Keep an eye out for it when you mob are share farming red claw pots at Somerset.

There is a lot to be said forusing slices of bread as markers. You don't have to collect them and they may even help hold the fish .

Anyway the schools swim into the wind you say?
If so on a steady wind day do they all end up at one end of the Dam .

Pardon

Those marker bouys sound like a good idea Daryl ...... might even make up a couple
GPS is good .... if you have one on the bow

Chris

PS ..... you might be surprised how long those schooled up fish stay in an area

[Tropicaltrout]

Sounds like a cross roads type scenario... These bass seem to concertrate the efforts on either banks or schooled up in the deep, maybe as the bait moves in and rolls with the water the bass move out from the windward bank and school up eating activley... So hit em at the crass roads?

Early fishing sees us hit them while they are on the fringes of the weed and as the wind picks up they move out with the rolly washy water and school...

Anyhow beats me... Just looking forward to the camping and social on this next session to this somerset place you are on about...

[darylive]

Those marker bouys sound like a good idea Daryl ...... might even make up a couple
GPS is good .... if you have one on the bow

Chris

PS ..... you might be surprised how long those schooled up fish stay in an area

Chris the markers are a great thing. As you pass over a school just lob it over. The round one wrapped with cord and a snapper sinker is simple and unwinds itself. It spines on the surface making little or no noise. Cheap sports drink bottles work ok if you fix the lid with some plumbers glue.

As I said a loaf of bread on board is another option and you don't have to go back for the marker. handy if you cover a better option while moving around

[NAGG]

Chris the markers are a great thing. As you pass over a school just lob it over. The round one wrapped with cord and a snapper sinker is simple and unwinds itself. It spines on the surface making little or no noise. Cheap sports drink bottles work ok if you fix the lid with some plumbers glue.

As I said a loaf of bread on board is another option and you don't have to go back for the marker. handy if you cover a better option while moving around

I've seen them before ........ but used to mark schools of Yellowfin tuna ...... but rather than a sinker - you use a burley bag of pilchard pieces ( keeps the school around)

Chris

[darylive]

yes. Chris. I also had a bucket of burley pellets in the boat and toss a hand full with the marker

[Barraboss]

When working on a charter boat I used to lob out a cuttlefish shell to mark a school of fish when in a hurry, followed by pilly cubes.

Sorry to get on the other subject Daryl