How powerful a wind gets you off the water fishing from a boat?

[ecoast]

whenever flags are flying fully extended, I'm out

[KMack]

whenever flags are flying fully extended, I'm out

Around here we have 3 sizes of flags/windsocks:

15 mph
30 mph
log chain

Below 15 is the same as zero and log chain and above is too much no matter where you try to hide.

[M R Dux]

I will cancel guide trips if 15mph winds are forecast during a trip. KY Lake has been known to generate 6 foot waves. Been there, done that, got the T shirt.


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[Herewego]

On those days I go to where l know l can catch fish out of the wind and keep my hat from blowing off which is usually somewhere on the river and not Santee Cooper lower lake Moultrie.


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[Tturk]

I won’t leave the house if it’s over 15 mph. I’ll leave the lake if it gets up to 10. My pontoon is like a sailboat.


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[deltarat]

I will cancel guide trips if 15mph winds are forecast during a trip. KY Lake has been known to generate 6 foot waves. Been there, done that, got the T shirt.


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I see why you have such a big boat!!

[Grainraiser]

We have not had so much wind in my area since 1942. I have really been limited this year due to my 14 footer is not really good when the wind gets above 12mph. I am headed out early in the morning and it suppose to be 6 mph. I guess we will see.

[zummy]

Around here we have 3 sizes of flags/windsocks:

15 mph
30 mph
log chain

Below 15 is the same as zero and log chain and above is too much no matter where you try to hide.

Ditto. One lake I fish won't let you on above a certain wind speed. I got caught on it one day in a storm. In the trough of a wave I couldn't see above the next one. Took one over the bow that killed the big motor. Ended up with about a 50/50 mix of water and fuel in the onboard fuel tank.

20 isn't anything for me to be out. If I only fished days the wind was 5 to 10 or less I'd get to fish 5 days a year.

[SuperDave336]

I fish from a kayak and about 15 is all I want. But it also depends on how well the fish are biting….

[Yak Fish]

I fish from a kayak and about 15 is all I want. But it also depends on how well the fish are biting….

My kayak doesn't like whitecaps & I like them even less. I take advantage of the wind by pulling crankbaits running with the wind if I can. Paddling back upwind along a sheltered bank is the only way I can make it happen.

Jim