Fishing in a Northerly

[eggbeater]

Is it true that you have to work harder for a feed of fish when fishing offshore with a northerly/northeaster blowing ?

[caloundra]

when the wind is from the north the pressure is dropping and one therory is the fish stop feeding. and yes some days i have noticed a reduction in bite's when a northerly starts to blow.

[Reefmaster]

Hey Stevo
Mate i believe a northerly only effects fishing if it has been blowing for a couple of days or more but if its a wind that swings from SE in the morning to NE in the afternoon then it will not impact on the fishing. I have also fished light northerlys all day and had one of the best snapper trips ever. When will i see you up DI next? Did you get the baitrunner you were after from the boatshow?.if not give me a yell and i will get you one Cheers Greg

[eggbeater]

Giday Greg
Thanks for the feedback mate.Got my 4500 baitrunner on Saturday at the show.Planing on being sick Tuesday so i can give it a workout at the Gneerings.
Was up at D I on Queens Birthday weekend.Was blowing 25-30 knots & cleaned up on spotties,tuna and tailor.It then took me 4 weeks to work out how post pic's,so i didn't worry about it.
Cheers buddy

[jeffo]

there are HEAPS of people who believe that fishing slows right up (if not stops) in a northerly.. particularly a north wester. Like greg said i have had some excellent morning on the knobbies in strong north westerlies (at currimundi ). i have also found that when a strong northerly blows here at mooloolaba the bay fills with bait, and where theres bait....... if it happens in summer the schoolies,spotties and tuna(s) turn up right in close at alex and mooloolaba. if it happens in winter then its usually tailor, schoolies and wolf herring (actually happened last week for 3 days ).

[NeilD]

I have had some of my best Snapper trips in light northerlies when you can drift down a N_S contour or reef edge. In my opinion a strong NE chop on top of a prevailing SE swell is one of the worst seas to be outside in.

Neil

[blue_rogue]

Without a doubt my best fishing has been done in a light northerly wind. The worst fishing is done in a southerly. Because the current normally runs north-south, and you end up fishing your anchor,(not fun)

[eggbeater]

Thanks guys for all the feedback.Went out to the Inner Gneerings today and all thou a bit lumpy we managed a good feed and a few species we hadn't boated before.
Thanks again

[jeffo]

what species were they steve?

[nat_bromhead]

Another member of the 'dont like norwesters' club...
Be it Weipa, East coast of the Cape, CQ or the SEQ I can vividly remember many @%&#house days, when the wind was blowing NW. (One shocker was taking a big Riv into Musgrave lagoon, with a big runout tide against a 20 knot Norwester...that was a great ending to a long and fishless day..)

Having said that, rules are made to be broken...Got into some good tuna yesterday with a NNW blowing ???
Nat
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[eggbeater]

Giday Jeffo thanks for the interest mate.We caught undersize pearlies, a couple of leatherjackets,mowong& silver trevally

[jeffo]

good stuff steve..the deeper gravel patches AROUND the gneerings actually hold decent numbers of pearlies.. some of them big suckers. my best pearly to date came from a patch just under 4nm out