Trying to learn to read conditions for fishing

It depends on location, but heres my synopsis

South winds will bring in clean salty water from the GOM
North winds usually flush the marsh/bays with muddy water

Ideal beach fishing to me would be about a 5-10mph S wind after a few days of calm and predictable (lol) weather.

As far as pressure goes, low pressure fronts usually bring good fishing. Sure those sunny days are nice out, but fishing is much better on the flip side IMO.

Have heard mixed things about moon phases, so I'll leave that to someone else.

T.O.W.=Time on Water. Keep a notebook divided into the 12 months. Log your trips, conditions and results.

I sure do like to fish those low pressure systems approaching from the west.

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I sure do like to fish those low pressure systems approaching from the west.

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yep...I look for a falling barometer with whatever wind is right to keep clear water where I want to fish...

I like cloudy days, slight south wind and a foot plus of tide movement.

Not that it matters because the only condition That really matters is the wife index. If its all clear im going fishing. If there is upper level distubance, im not going.

For fishing the surf/beaches I like to have very little wind blowing twoards the beach. Anything over 10mph and normally it will dirty the water at the beach and make the trout bite not so good. Like someone else said a north wind I head for the beaches as the beach will be a lee shore and you know it should be calm.

This late in the year I don't worry too much about salt water being pushed into the beaches it should already be there as the beaches are on the outside in most instances. Falling barometer/no high pressure is good but again that's most of the time during the summer.

Anything over about 12mph out of the south the beaches become almost unfishable and you need to look elsewhere to fish. Hope that helps a little.

yeah idk

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PapaPogey

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this is good info source (not that i'm really happy with the info on it now )

Thanks

I like winds around 5mph because I hate wind the wind is howling. It muddies up the water and makes everything a pita. That being said, when there's no wind, the horse flies and gnats are ready to feast.

Some people can look at weather conditions and know if they will be able to catch trout in the surf or not and I want to learn how to do that.

This is the website I use. I think wind direction, wind speed, wave direction, and wave height are the most important factors but I don't know when the conditions are ideal to make the clean water trout like.

Also, how does pressure and temperature factor in? Is a full moon the night before actually bad for fishing because it means the fish have been feeding all night?
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Wind Direction
It's important in that if there is a river or pass going into the gulf, that the wind is not pushing that dirty water your way.
For example, if your fishing on the east side of a pass or river, you don't want a southwest wind blowing that dirty water your way. Especially if it has blown for a few days in that same direction.

Tides
By the old shrimping rule, the 3 days before and 3 days after the full moon are the best days to shrimp or fish. the shrimp are moving at those times, thus, if shrimp are in the water, the trout will be too.
As the moon gets full, the tides get stronger.
As an example of a range.

0.4, 0.7, 0.9, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.5, 1.5, 1.3, 1.1, 0.8, 0.4

So the full moon tide range is 1.5, so the 3 days before that (0.9 - 1.3) and after (1.3 - 0.8) will be your best days.

Also, any tide over 1.4 or such will start to dirty the water up, just too strong.

Not saying you can't catch outside of these days, but I've learned quite a few lessons over many a years, shrimping and fishing, using this as a guide.