Well...Wind from the East fishing the least,wind from the West fishing the best. Old saying right?

I have found in the near fifty years i have spent fishing....it ain't always so.

A couple different things can be going on at the same time. The wind does not tell the whole story. The actual pressure.And how it's changing,time of year,conditions that are happening subsurface.


There is something to it....but the only way you will know for sure is to go. Some of the best days I have ever had for crappie were during stormy weather when squall lines of rain where pushing through and wind was shifting from North to East. North wind means high pressure and I have found crappie one of the species that seems to generally like it.

But it's not always the same,like I said...other things factor into it. I have left to go fishing thinking I was not going to catch anything and caught a boat load and went other times I thought I was going to catch a boat load and couldn't hardly catch anything.

Generally I am gonna catch more fish when the wind is blowing from somewhere. The calm days are nice....but many times they signal a low pressure system that's hangin on and that will shut em down.

Many times conditions will shut down how you were catching em...and you got to change something up. No hard and fast rules. But that chronic lingering low pressure condition that happens at times is the worst of all conditions I think.