a guy on lake-link the other day commented that schools of fish always travel in counter-clockwise rotation, and that when the bite stops you should move down to shoreline/or docks to the left? …

[Robert L. Habich]

 

  a guy on lake-link the other day commented that schools of fish always travel in counter-clockwise rotation, and that when the bite stops you should move down to shoreline/or docks to the left?  any thoughts??

[dick tabbert]

You know I had a lake I fished in Northern Michigan in Atlanta called Crooked Lake. Every evening you could be sitting in your boat an like clock work you could watch them coming towards you (feeding) and it was in a counter clockwise rotation. I didn't think much about it till I read your little article here. I would throw a rubber spider on my spinning rod. Caught many a fish many a night. Thank you for helping me to remember that little tid bit.

[Allen Morgan]

There's a lake near my grandparent's house that is a cooling lake for a coal-fired electrical plant.  The discharge channel sets up a clockwise current in the lake.  As a result, the Stripers / Wipers / Whites will all move in a counter-clockwise pattern, swimming "upstream".

If your lake has a source of current that sets up a clock-wise current, then it's possible that this is true.