Thread: Dealing with the wind

I used a 1/32 and a tiny float on a buggy whip rod the other day and the wind was brisk .
keep in mind the wind and wave action had the entire population of fish holding along one shoreline best I could tell .
use mother nature to your advantage and hit that spot in the wind .
you will have a few errant casts , but the bites will make up for the mistakes on placement .

Yup and I had planned to blow leaves. Think I will just let Mother Nature blow what she wants first and I do mine later….lol

Wicked wind can be the devil for fishermen, but you have to play the hand you’re dealt. You are coming up with some nice techniques. Always learning something here.
Bob

Hope you do well today. I’ve done good on windy days but I don’t bank fish. They gotta eat. Jig and float will do the job if you get the depth right.

Originally Posted by skeetbum

Hope you do well today. I’ve done good on windy days but I don’t bank fish. They gotta eat. Jig and float will do the job if you get the depth right.

I much prefer to bank fish if the wind is over 10mph .
My Alumacraft 1436 gets blown around pretty easily and it seems I spend more time navigating than I do fishing if it’s windy .
I guess I might be a little stubborn when it comes to the method I want to use .
I’ve really come to enjoy fishing the drop shot and that’s all I want to do lately.
Once I do get to get my boat out , I’ll take four rods with me and they’ll all be rigged up differently.
Much easier to pickup a different rod to try something different than it is to retie with every lure or method change while bank fishing .

If you have no hidiehole to get outta da wind, and it's blowin real hard, I try to use it to my advantage. Like, the majority of minnows are going to be stacked on the windblown side, (meaning wind blowing from lake onto shore side), Cast into the wind if possible, casting further than needed. one, the wind is not going to let it go as far as you think, and if you can't get where you can cast into it, at least sideways, casting a bit further out than where you want to fish. Wind will blow hook set up in the direction it's blowin' some what. If you keep your rod tip down close to the water, you will not have the dreaded wind bow in your line, and be able to detect bits better. Good luck.