Does a NE'er turn the fish off the bite???

[gavsgonefishing]

I was down tonight having a tailor fish in a North Easter, current roaring and the surf was pretty messed up. I ended up giving it away as a bad joke.

In your experience, do you catch fish in a NE'er, I reckon even outside they seem to be a little shy. Why is that am I reading too much into it?

[the_real_fishcrazy]

I don't think it makes any difference.
More likley its the change of pressure a weather front can bring through. Fast pressure changes can lead to some hot bites, the more gradual declines don't do much good though in my experience.

Theres so many factors to look at, tides changes and thier sizes, light levels, moon phase, water temp bait situation etc etc etc etc.

[gavsgonefishing]

All the stuff with the tides and the moon phase is right, the bait, the area, all things I can control is ok, the only change is the wind, oh the water temp is an interesting one, can the water temp change that fast on the shoreline??

[spindles]

In my opinion yes, in the last 35 years that i have been tailor fishing my large catches of tailor have only been with southerly winds, very rarely catch tailor when northerly winds blow, only when it precedes a southerly shortly afterwards.
spindles.
Ps. Thats only my opinion.

[MTpockets]

As far as tailor go, when I was a kid tailor fishing off woody point jetty, we only ever got tailor on a sw'er-southerly. Any other direction meant no fish..... thats my experience.
cheers
Les

[CHRIS_aka_GWH]

tailor, dart & whiting YEP

i agree with the spindle-man - gotta have some south in it for those - the beginning of an uncomfortable south easter the best

ps but don't give up on a north easter before dark, they have a habit in these parts of dying once the sun has gone & turning to a light southwest

[Hutcho]

yup, i reckon NE winds aren't too good for fishing. I've been in out SE winds when the fish have been biting, and with a NE change, they go off the bite. I hate NE winds for fishing! >

Hutcho

[jeffo]

gav-the bait all ends up right in the bay at the spit in a ne'er... might be worth trying around there next time? the mackeral seam to bite well on a ne'er.