Well I guess you could call me a salmon guy.
In large deep bodies of water, wind has very little effect on salmon and walleye. East wind is usually an indictor that a low pressure area is about to hit. The wind is rushing form the east to the west where the low pressure front is. As the low pressure front passes, the wind will then change from the east to the west.
Salmon - in this area, we usually fish a hundred feet down and that is about 6 atmospheric pressures and the slight variation in one atmosphereic pressure that a pending low pressure front creates has none or very affect on that species.
Walleye - we fish much shallower in the fall but the wind has very little affect moving the huge schools of gizzard shad or shinners. The predator fish have more affect moving the schools of bait up & down the reach or from shallow water out to deep water.
In shallow bodies of water (30' or less) wind will have a huge affect on the forage that the predator fish are chasing. The prey fish will move with the wind to the windward shore. Also an atmosphereic pressure change will also affect walleye and bass.
I have had some of my best days fishing in a east wind for salmon and fall walleye in Adolphus Reach.
With an east wind (low pressure area coming in), we usually have overcast conditions and sometimes rain or snow(
) which is the weather that I prefer to fish in.
Just my observations.
Al
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