Nope.. Into the wind front facing casting into the wind would be the Windward shore. Casting to the shore with wind at their backs.. Leewards.

 

cottonpicker has it right Captain Dave wrong.

See diagram below.

 

yep....leeward side = protected side..at least that's how i was taught..lol...it doesn't matter which direction your casting.....

 

In the lee = protected

 

I stand corrected.. LOL.. I just feech the shorelines that gets the bait thrown on it from a wind at my back.


Defined:

Windward means toward the direction from which the wind is blowing. ( Going in the same direction as the wind )

Leeward is the direction away from the wind. Toward which it is blowing. (Going in the direction into the wind )

Corpus Dave, Can ya show a pic of the weather side, lee of the shore and weather shore too for reference ?

 

Thanks!!!!

 

read the thread i posted about loud lures last week. some good info about fishing in the wind was posted.

 

LOL, windward.... "wind toward" is this maybe that semantics things...LOL. the windward shoreline does get wind driven current and it's more oxygenated from the turbulence and gives the bait something to hide in as well as pushes them into that shoreline. .... that was a nice little post sdereki.

 

There is a difference between the windward and leeward side of the island and a windward and leeward shore. The difference is actually your reference point, in other words are you on land or on a boat. From Wikipedia:

Lee Shore-is one that is to the lee side of a vessel - meaning the wind is blowing towards it. A weather shore has the wind blowing from inland over it out to sea. For example, if you were standing on a beach, looking out to sea with the wind at your back, you are standing on a weather shore. If the wind is blowing at you, you are on a lee shore.
The "lee" of a boat is the side that the wind touches last as it crosses the boat; in the diagram it is left or port side of the boat. The boat in the diagram has a lee shore to its west. In the diagram, the other side of the island, to the far west, has a weather shore. The wind blows over the shore as it heads to sea. This wind, because it blows from east to west, is called an "easterly" wind. This is because the source of a wind is more ascertainable or knowable than its destination, so winds are named for their source.

 

Bump for discussion.

V This is how wikipedia defines it, but I are confuse.

 

I think when I, or most people discuss windward or leeward, the reference point is generally land, not the boat. Cotton picker you are right.
If we are docking an aircraft carrier or super tanker the windward side makes a difference, fishing from an 18-24 foot bayboat, probably not a real difference, only which way the wind is going to push you.

 

Point to the Bird... Oh, wait that could be taken wrong. LOL. nice input and I stand corrected as well. It is about the point of reference.

I'm sticking to saying..."over there on the windy side" ;-)

 

I'm just going to revert back to my pole vaulting days in college. And cast downwind. Tailwind. We could run faster and generally jump a little higher with a tailwind. And since it stacks bait up on whatever shoreline it happens to be I should be fine. LOL

 

Post 3 in this thread is correct.

 

...but what about the pretty graphic above?!?

 

Holy moly! I fish in the mfing water! Lol


-mac-

 

Agree - Post #3 is correct. The lee shore is always protected from the wind, the windward shore is getting hammered. Not sure where the "green island" picture came from, but have never heard of the wind blowing into a lee shore. Using the example explained in that same post, the lee side of the boat is downwind, sheltered from the wind. Same goes for the island...

 

Came from Wikipedia. The way they explain it is in nautical terms is if you look toward the Lee side of the boat (protected) you see the Lee shoreline, which you would drift into.

 

Holy **** I'm confused!

I always referenced it as if I was standing on shore and looking out..on shore breeze in my face was windward....off shore breeze...wind at my back was leeward....I'm all twisted up now.

Five

 

settle the confusion if you are standing at the boat ramp, not in your boat, and say the wind is blowing twenty from the south. you decide to go to the south shoreline of a said bay because it is the lee shoreline. "lee" means shelterd from the wind. now your in the boat along the south shoreline, the lee shoreline becomes the shoreline the wind is blowing into. the defintion of lee changes, once your in a boat. confusing, you bet!!!

 

^^ this is it right here

 

Can we get one straight answer from a credible guide??? I am lost like a goose in a snow storm now!

 

say your on the south shoreline of a bay, , bow of boat is pointing east. your port side is the lee side(protected) and the shoreline north is the lee shoreline. if your on a shore looking out to the water same terminology applies. if the wind is blowing in your face while on a shore you standing on the lee side.

 

There is nothing anyone can say right now that I will believe to be true...stick a fork in me..I'm done.

 

clint, you never took reading comprehension in school? lmao

 

I did, but there's so many different answers on here just like Number Five said.

 

windward side the rough side, leeward side the calm side. i will draw a diagram later...

 

Not sure what you're saying here..could you clarify?

 

This is like one of those.....if a train leaves the station at 8:30 deals. Never could figure those out

 

this is how I feel now.