What's the highest wind speed that you would consider fishing in? Me personally I dont like fishing anything above 10-12 mph?
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What's the highest wind speed that you would consider fishing in? Me personally I dont like fishing anything above 10-12 mph?
If you have a drift sock, you can go in 15-20 with ease.
At maumelle when the wind is ESE be careful. THe farther across the lake you go the worse the waves get. 15-20 and you're in for a fight.
If I'm trolling (spider rigging), about 10-15 is tops for sure, and that depends on the chop on the lake.
If it's jigging, I don't like to fish in it, but I will fish in 25 mph wind with higher gusts. Wind like that clears the lake out or at least concentrates the boats and I can work some fish over in places that are normally crowded. Make sure your bilge pump is operable in that kind of wind as most likely you will have some water coming over the front of the boat
Reason I was asking is that i plan on fishing lake houge in the morning and I seen the wind is supposed to top out at 17mph. Basically, I just wanted to find out how all Yall deal with the wind.
If jigging, keep your nose in the wind. Spider rigging, drag a weight or use socks. I like socks much better
I was at houge tuseday and it was horrible.i made it till noon and the wind picked up to about 20 to 30 and had to hang it up.
I plan on dragging a chain tomorrow. Kinda new at the technique of it. Wasn't sure it would be very safe in the high winds.
Kmorgan, do you fish houge often and if so what's the most productive way to fish the lake if you don't mind me asking?
My problem is my boat gets blown around pretty good (aluminum tracker) and I always manage to get lines hung up in the prop.
Lol, yeah mine always seem to find the same log all at the same time.
Ive only fished that lake a couple times.tuseday i was spider rigging in a about 4 to 5 fow. I caught 16 but they were all small.i think i could of done better i just couldnt control my boat very good in the wind
With 10-20 MPH south winds the boat ramp at Hogue will be pretty rough. If you stay on the south end of the lake it usually isn't too bad. I fished it today from 1:30 to dark, and caught several nice ones. The bite picked up a lot about an hour before dark. Before that it was kinda slow. They seemed to like a blue and chartreuse jig tipped with a minnow over any of the other colors i tried.
lol houge is rough on a calm day! its like a big wind pocket full of stumps....good fishing at times!!
Got that right. Seems like the wind is always blowing harder down there than its supposed to be. At least the water is high enough this year to cover most of the stumps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildthang
I'm used to it for the most part. I fish Mallard quite a bit and that lake runs north to south. When the wind blows there it's pretty rough. Mallard hasn't been much good this year so I'm looking for new waters to fish.
Most of the time it's relative to the body of water your fishing. Over here Sardis lake will get to rolling pretty bad with a east wind that does not have to be all that bad and can be very dangerous. Most of the time I'm like Arkcrappie, got the stuff to stay out with but I usually won't go out if any mention of 20. More than I want to start with. One thing about pulling chains, make sure you use a weak link to hook it to your boat. Need something that will breakaway if it gets hung in a strong wind. You may not think so but it dose not take much to sink your boat if it hangs long with big rollers coming over your stern. Put a float on line hooked to anything your dragging. That way if need be you can cut it loose and go back and retrieve later.