Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Fishing Forum :: Fishing the wind
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cyclones30 |
But I also agree w/ the sentiment of IF you can fish it out of a canoe...go for it. No matter what the wind might be doing |
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Savage Voyageur |
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jwettelrin89 |
I still wonder if upwelling could concentrate fish in areas conventional wisdom would not suggest. Especially this time of year when the surface water is in the 70s. Surface currents pool the warmest water on the downwind side of the lake. In July/August you would think all that warm water pooling up would incentivize the fish to move to cooler water. For those that insist on fishing the windy side of the lake - do you notice fishing is not good in July/August? Do you need to switch up your patterns to find fish when the water is really warm? I know this is a tough ask, because generally fishing is tougher that time of year for everyone, but I'm not ready to give this hypothesis up yet! |
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YetiJedi |
timatkn: " My wisdom is I can’t catch fish if I don’t fish…" This. Well said! It's pretty much my approach. I'll admit I'm not the most knowledgeable about BWCA fishing or even fishing in the midwest. But I sure love the variety of species, the chance for lots of fish, and the possibility of a giant! |
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foxfireniner |
Basspro69: "In a Canoe I always fish the calmer water when available and still catch fish. If you’re fishing in windy conditions it’s hard a lot of the time to effectively fish a spot in my opinion out of a canoe . " 100%. I think the 'follow the wind' advice is good in early and late season. Mid-summer...the wind will blow the hot surface water into the hot shallow bay...doesn't seem ideal. In a canoe, I like to fish where it isn't painful. In July I was trying to fish structure in the wind but, you really only get half a cast before the wind moves you off it or blows you into shore. I fish where I can fish and I can't fish the way I want in the wind. |
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timatkn |
jwettelrin89: " I think July/August is a great time to fish. Fish are cold blooded, warmer water they need to eat more food and more often…now the kicker is there is more food available that time of year, but wind creates current which usually stimulates fish to feed. Early August I’ve pulled lakers, smallys, walleyes, Nortons, even lost a monster sturgeon at the boat on the wind swept side of the lake all caught side by side… Still not saying you are wrong. I just can’t strongly concur from my experience. T |
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FishEyes |
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bobbernumber3 |
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missmolly |
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Basspro69 |
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jwettelrin89 |
This might be a reach, but bear with me. I do a lot of fishing on the Great Lakes and in the summer it is often times best to fish the upwind side of the lake because as the wind pushes the warm surface water downwind cooler water from down deep comes up to replace the warmer water on the upwind side of the lake (upwelling). This brings the fish right up to the surface even in the warmest days of the summer because thats where their preffered temperature is. I was wondering if something similar to this takes place anywhere in the boundary waters, and if sometimes you might find the fish shallower than you would expect because of upwelling currents bringing cooler water closer to the surface. I would imagine this would be more likely on lakes that have whitefish or cisco where much of the main forage is deep suspended baitfish. Upwellings would bring the whitefish/ciscos up and the predators would follow? |
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timatkn |
I will say though my experience is almost always the windward side produces when fishing, especially for walleyes. If the weather is really bad and you are windbound look for a shore that is really getting pounded, then when it calms down in the evening…if it does…that spot can be a gold mine too. Then there are always outliers…maybe a mayfly hatch or minnow spawn is going on in a calm upwind windless bay and that draws the fish in. T |
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shock |
Now on my local lake Waconia (it's a 3,000 acre bowl) so i'm generally fishing the calm side most of the time and we catch fish, as the water warms up like it is , calm water doesnt seem to produce so good , |
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