Fishing wind?

[hammer33]

Fishing the intracoastal waterway in FL, we used to try and hide from the wind after a front. Usually didn't catch much. Fished with a guide and he would fish the wind blown banks and we caught fish! Explained that the wind pushed the plankton/algae up against the bank, bait followed and the fish followed.

Just watched a video about fishing walleye up north and the guy mentioned the wind pushing warm top water into a bay. Anybody fish the wind after a front? I figured the areas out of the wind would be warmer, but it makes a kind of sense that the warm top water would be pushed by the wind and the cooler bottom water would move up to replace it ? So the downwind part of the lake might actually be warmer than the upwind ??
Anybody track water temps and how much does a degree or two make on the fish biting?

 

[Biggun4214]

Several years ago I read an article about fishing the wind for crappie. It also talked about the wind pushing the warmer water.

 

[megalomaniac]

Sometimes is about living thru the day...

Yesterday we had 15k east winds churning up 2 to 3 ft seas. I wanted to replicate the topwater bite i had last weekend, but would have drowned in my little skiff. Instead went to east side of the bay out of the waves. Caught several short schoolie trout, nothing worth wasting more time on. Abandoned the idea of catching big trout and moved into the marsh to sighfish reds after my initial plan was a bust.

I've always heard that wind pushes bait downwind to the banks and concentrates them, but it's just too miserable in big waters.

 

[WTM]

without giving away too much info on here, wind can cause some banks to be 5deg warmer. im always watching conditions in the spring and wind directions one of them.

 

[hammer33]

I just always assumed that the downwind banks would be cooler, like blowing on a cup of coffee.

 

[Kevin Snook]

Fish move up on wind blown banks

Always fish the wind when you can