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[fishinwrench]

The old East wind thing I can't debunk, I always have a slow day (regardless of the species and regardless of whether I'm fishing river/lake/pond) when the wind is coming from an easterly direction. And hard wind from any direction is a bite killer for me most times. When it blows so hard that I can't find refuge anywhere then I might as well go home. The old "windy point" rhetoric that I hear all the time just does not hold true for me.

White bass and catfish are tough for me under high clear skies, but other fish I can usually figure out.

I'll take a crystal-clear calm day for river smallies anytime, I've had my best days ever smallmouth fishing under a mid-day scorching sun.

Trout seem unaffected by just about everything "sky/weather" related until the water color and/or CFS changes.

[bfishn]

I think George Carlin explained it best;