What Weather Service?

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Ryan

Sealiner
Which weather service do you use?

This is always a crucial part of my fishing plan as I want to know exactly what is happening or what is going to happen whilist I am on the water.

I make use of 2 web-based sites I have tried other but I find these two by far the most accurate. Of the Two Windguru is the better more accurate but only give a forecast for 3 days and is very local (EG in my area Pretoria)

The other giving extended forecasts and what is really great is you can put in the town closest to your fishing destination for which most of the time it has information for..... (Just use the  "OLD" South African names  - eg "warmbaths ZA" instead of "Molle molle ZA")

http://www.windreport.co.za/wg_pretoria.php

http://www.wunderground.com/

:wfish
 
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Naruto

Sealiner
Hi Ryan, I use freemeteo.com
it gives 7 day forecasts and you can also type in the closest city or name of the dam, like klipdrif, you want to fish and it will return a list of names. I haven't tried the ones you mention above so I can't comment on which one I like better. Will try them this week when I am in front of a pc again.
 
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ajayrajh

New member
weathersa.co.za is the best site to use. It is hosted by the weather bereau and all airlines and most pilots use this service. Most accurate and up to date info.
 
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ajayrajh

New member
weathersa.co.za is the best site to use. It is hosted by the weather bereau and all airlines and most pilots use this service. Most accurate and up to date info.
 
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basslover

Senior Member
I use WEATHERSA, Windguru, WEATHER24....what was weird today was that the temp. were correct from weather sa but they were wrong about the wind and rain where weather24 were correct with the wind and rain but not with the temp.
 
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Ryan

Sealiner
SO basically we can assume that it is better to use multiple sites rather than just one.......;)
Thanks gents glad to see that I am not the only one....

For me the biggest factor to successful fishing is WIND anything above 10km/h I find I am waisting my time......

O and I am also a "Fair-weather" fisherman - I don't like the wet especially in the winter
 
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basslover

Senior Member
Ryan wrote:
SO basically we can assume that it is better to use multiple sites rather than just one.......;)
Thanks gents glad to see that I am not the only one....

For me the biggest factor to successful fishing is WIND anything above 10km/h I find I am waisting my time......

O and I am also a "Fair-weather" fisherman - I don't like the wet especially in the winter
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I feel the same about the wind, but there is some guys like Lourens(Culprit) that loves the wind, when fishing.

I love fishing in the rain, if its not windy and no thunderstorms...and man this is now the second time ive fished a wet winters day and both times done well...WEIRD!!!
 
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Naruto

Sealiner
I don't know anything about bass, but in bank angling it has been my experience that fishing is normally best when the wind blow towards the bank. If the wind blows away from you then fishing is normally difficult. Only thing about rain I don't like is getting wet and cold, but fishing is normally good. I like freemeteo.com because they are normally very accurate. But I will def try the others. More info is better than no info. Thanks Ryan!
 
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ajayrajh

New member
remember surface wind varies greatly. The wind reading you will get at a weather station might be different 100m away due to terrain. So the only accurate means is to used a local annemometer and wind vane or just eyeball it. Branchs mving slowly usually is a wind about 10kts. A bit more bend is about 15kts. Tree swaying is arond 20-25kts. Tree not there is a hurricane. You will never get accurate data from a weather site unless you are fishing where they are taking readings. I was once on flight training long time back an approached a unmanned airfield in a slight valley. The surface wind was 180 degrees different from what the weather report was due to the valley.
 
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Ryan

Sealiner
Ajay - I agree with you... I am not exactly worried about the wind to te KM/h all that concerns me is if the weather says it is going to be windy then you can be sure it is.....
 
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Cpt. Hook

Sealiner
Best to use about 4-6 sites, and then you can compare, if they all agree you know what you will get, if they disagree then you need to use each one for its own merits.

Windguru

Windfinder

Bouy Weather

Weather SA

and so on and so on.....
 
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Droomvanger

Senior Member
Because Artlure angling depends very much on sight fishing wind casing waves or rimples on the water which makes sighting the fish much more difficult. For the same reason artlure anglers prefer bright sunny days without clouds.  Bass angling is more structure angling and therefore the wind is not such a problem. I don't think wind bothered the fish that much. Bait anglers often catch more fish when the wind blows. :SSS
 
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