Just interested!

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[COLOR="Blue"]"A fish seen is a fish nearly caught"[/COLOR]

Not without giving it a good try first...

richard

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Who resides on the right bank of the Derbyshire Wye and is lulled to sleep each night by the mutterings of a weir, dreaming that "When the rivers and their inhabitants come first, we ALL win..."

If I'm there I'll give it a go. I don't like to give in, whatever the snag. But................there does come a time when if no fish are being caught and you are uncomfortable then it's time for a little "apres fish" ........if you know what I mean...................birdsnest

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Fear not if I steal from your side, as of yore, from paradise streams to fish Teifi once more.
BN based in Wolverhampton

To some extent depends on the fishery.

For example, a strong NE wind in spring or autumn - which will be cold - on Farmoor can be utterly miserable as there's nowhere to shelter from it, and the fish will be down deep...8 hours of being battered by the wind while twitching a booby through the depths. By contrast, the way that Sutton Bingham sits in the folds of the Somerset hills means you can nearly always tuck yourself away somewhere out of the worst of a Spring nor'easter and hope to find a few fish.

Apart from that, agree totally with BN's comments.

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JH based near Southampton

I like to give it a bloody good blast before givin up too, but im with john too, some places are just a no-go, simple

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i was walking far from home, where the names are not burned along the wall, saw a building, high as heaven, but the door was so small

I live half a mile from the North Sea. We seem to have a North East wind nearly all the time if I did I would never go fishing , So I know which bits of which rivers are sheltered and go there,,,,,



Andy


Fly fishing North Yorkshire

It depends if I can get to part of the bank where the wind is coming from behind or from left to right, if so I will give it a go.

If things get too uncomfortable I will pack in, I fish purely for pleasure so if fishing has ceased to be pleasurable why carry on? There's always another day

NEVER.....give up

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We all battled on at the meet at Kilnsey during a wind that was a N-E, then East, then S-e, south, then back to N-E, to West, To N-W, to N-E and a bit of snow for good measure.

Depends where you're fishing and if it is beneficial. If the water temp has been warm for a while and the fish are finding it sluggish then a north east will cool the water a bit and stir things up, get things moving again.

I have a split opinion on if/how much wind direction matters.

With lake fishing for any species and fishing very large rivers for species other than trout, I absolutely think it matters. I have almost never had even decent fishing much less good fishing on any lake with a north or east wind blowing.

As with others, I'll solider on because I like to fish and a bad day of catching nothing is still better than a good day at work.

Also, I've found even with sustained periods of bad wind direction there's sometimes an opening, but it might be a very brief one. I remember one time in Canada we were caught in really high daytime winds blowing from the east, then they would die right at sunset, and then come up again during the night.

We figured out totally by accident that the period just when the wind started to taper off was when the fish were moving into the shallows on the wind-facing shore. But there was only a brief window, and it wasn't when it was calm, it was just as it started to settle down and then the bite shut off again before the wind had died completely. That trend held for two additional days, always the same, very slow during the day, then great fishing for about an hour, but only if you were in the right place, and then nothing again.

By contrast, I've never noticed the wind matter at all when trout fishing on rivers. I just don't think it concerns the trout at all and I've had countless days where I just know that the east or north wind would have shut down all the lake fishing, but the trout on rivers don't seem to care.

Maybe river trout are just more opportunistic because of the nature of moving water means they have to eat it when they see it?

Grouse