Easterly blues!

[solehunter]

These easterly winds are making my blood boil! We never catch anything here when the wind is in this direction! I`m dieing to get out and look for some plaice or turbot but dont want to stand in a freezing easterly wasting my bait! I know easterlys are good for some areas but here its killing the fishing!
Anyone else looking foward to a wind direction change? Well..........while we are on the subject A WHOLE BLOODY WEATHER CHANGE FULL STOP!!!!

[devondave]

lol yes sole im with you on this one.. although in the summer an easterly doesnt affect me the mullet still feed in the harbour no matter what but this time of the year i would like to get out searching for plaice and cannot fish in these conditions..

on the bright side the sea in recent months has been very clear (if anything too clear can see the bottom in 15-20 ft of water!) and the easterlies stirr it up no end down here so a good blow may stir everything up and bring the fish inshore searching for food once the weather does calm down..

as far as i can tell this weather is going to last until at least the middle of next week with the winds swinging more northerly as the week goes on brrr!

also if its nice and rough the trawlers cant get out and catch em all

[james]

It kills the fishing here as well sole, what little there was!! Not good news for me either, i'm a commercial fisherman bread and butter for the next week i think mate!!

[Charter Skipper]

Easterlys destroy the fishing here too,and the added misery is the onshore swells which make it a nightmare to even get out to steam off south to escape the wind.....

[iowangler]

we had a comp wedsnesday, no one caught any thing in size it looked good to start with then it started to blow up ,
roll on may

[solehunter]

Originally Posted by iowangler

we had a comp wedsnesday, no one caught any thing in size it looked good to start with then it started to blow up ,
roll on may

Yeah its a nightmare at the moment! A change around thursday i hear!

[james]

I've only seen up till thursday myself staying due east till then mate found a good website the other day might be worth trying out before planning a trip:

www.xcweather.com Hope this helps anyone whos interested.

[solehunter]

Originally Posted by james

I've only seen up till thursday myself staying due east till then mate found a good website the other day might be worth trying out before planning a trip:

www.xcweather.com Hope this helps anyone whos interested.

did you say you work on a boat? I used to work on a channel crabber! nightmare that was! PM me and we can share stories!
AS for the weather its getting me real down! C`mon westerlys!

[big guy]

yes it's bloody crap.

maybe we should all get on the beach and do a sun dance or something.

just thinking about it maybe not, it's bloody freezing out there.

[iowangler]

nipper had a comp tonight sat, not oneperson caught!!! it was stopped at 10 oclock, instead of 1 oclock, because of the wind and waves
but we all still go and try thats fishing