BAD DAY FISHING STILL BETTER THAN WORK

IT’S worth having a look at the effects of strong blustery conditions on the water over an extended period of time. Obviously, strong wind produces difficult conditions to fish in but they also often turn fish off the bite, especially inshore. If strong winds are associated with a low pressure system, the dropping barometric pressure will often give fish lock-jaw and stop them actively feeding. Strong winds will also drop the water temperatures slightly and any drop can make fish feed more sluggishly and only bite over a short time period. Another major factor is it reduces your ability to cast accurately and work lures to their optimum with the wind pushing the boat all over the place plus water slap on the boat. Anchoring the boat on structure marking fish is almost impossible in strong winds and you’ll often see anchors drag and your bait or lure not in the hot strike zone. While it’s hard to fathom why, strong NW wind will often shut reef bottom fish down. Most of us often don’t have the luxury of picking and choosing the days we can fish and fishing in unfavourable conditions is definitely better than not fishing at all. Fishing always throws many theories completely out the window and poor conditions occasionally produce unexpected great results. You can’t catch fish if you don’t get on the water no matter what the conditions are, so get out when you can and throw more theories out the window.