What's your preference?

If you were out hole hopping which would you prefer?

Scenario 1
zero degrees no wind
or
15 degrees with a 15 mph wind

I would take zero with no wind

Unless it is hot and buggy, I will take no wind every time regardless of the temp.

0 and no wind. Especially if it is sunny.

My quote for many years “From Labor Day to Memorial Day if you have sunshine and no wind it’s a nice day”.

Doesn’t matter whether it’s 50 in October or -10 in January—sunshine and no wind = a nice day.

My preference prioritizes catching fish first, not comfortability.

Give me the wind. In winter and your example, 0 degrees, high skies, and no wind generally indicates a big cold arctic high pressure system. In my experience, this is much harder to find aggressive fish. I am no expert angler, but have had far more success out in front of a weather system with some wind.

F@&% the wind!

No wind in the winter every time.

0F & no wind for me, and if its sunny its actually pretty nice to be be out hole hopping

In the winter, any cold and no wind every time. Ever try ice fishing in 60 MPH wind with 90 MPH gust? It’s enough to knock your feet out from under you. We had to bring my uncle to the emergency room when he landed on his head. This was in ND. It was so windy we had a hard time keeping heat in the shacks and always had to have one man sitting in the sled or it would move.

Which way is the wind coming from and what’s causing it?

Big front coming thru, heck yeah, give me that wind all day.

Nice south wind late winter with a lil sun out warming the cheeks up, heck yeah

NW wind where mother nature is just being a biatch and wants nothing else to put a bow in your line and bite your face, I’ll pass.

I’ll take 5 mph wind or less 365 days a year, if you’re offering!

buckybadger wrote:

My preference prioritizes catching fish first, not comfortability.

Give me the wind. In winter and your example, 0 degrees, high skies, and no wind generally indicates a big cold arctic high pressure system. In my experience, this is much harder to find aggressive fish. I am no expert angler, but have had far more success out in front of a weather system with some wind.

I agree to a certain extent BB but I want to enjoy the outdoors also. I don’t need to catch fish everyday. I have been out in miserable weather and not caught fish also. Then I wonder why I even went in such weather.

eyeguy507 wrote:

F@&% the wind!

X2. I am also a cyclist. I will take big hills over wind any day.

No wind every time.

No wind 10/10 times for me. But the wind wouldn’t stop me if it was my only option.

The normal weather.

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No wind every time.I hate the FN wind.I’ll take a tough bite over pi$$ed off every time.

Colder and no wind! Yeah!!!!!

No wind

No wind on hard water

Cold and windy. Usually keeps every one away. Just as you see in this group.

I’ll take either one when fish is biting. Doesn’t matter to me, I’ve hole hopped in 20mph wind single digit temp. Again, so long as the fish are biting haha.