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- When heading out to fish any river, you should begin by checking your regulations to ensure you are in compliance with the law.
- Proper equipment and knowing your water are the keys to success on a river. Is it best fished by wading, from shore, with a drift boat or some other way? What features can you identify from ecologic, biologic and topographic standpoints?
- Knowing the method to fish is easy enough. Go to the waterside and ask locals. They know! A tackle or fly-shop is also a good place to start.
- Knowing a river is a personal experience as much as a learned experience. You need to spend time on a river in order to understand it's insect hatches, it's plant life and it's contours.
- On a river more often than not, flatness equals low productivity. While there are exceptions, this is a general rule. Look for bends in the river. Branches, deadheads and heavy weed growth are good places to cast. Undercuts (the edges of the river where the land is cut away underneath by current) can be high producers if you can get to them. Deeper spots in the river (buckets as they are commonly referred) also hold high potential for fish.
- Fish a bend in the river where the gravel underneath gives way to a big drop-off. Cast through the top of the drop off and work the drop off at various casting distances of 3, 5, 7, 10 and 15 feet. This will give you a good guess as to what is working and what is not. If this is not productive... move. A distance of 3 feet can sometimes make a huge difference. Continue to move until you find your sweet spot.
- Deep fast runs in the river will generally produce. Use as much weight as required to get near the bottom. Gauge your distance to the bottom by the amount of plant-life that you are bringing up and adjust your weight accordingly. The closer you get to the bottom the closer you are to most game fish.
- If spin casting, cast at a 45-degree angle into the current and vary your retrieve speed. You may want to use spinner baits, jigs, a spoon or crank bait depending on the system. One good technique in quick current is to allow the lure to simply drift with the current, twitching it and retrieve it slowly when the lure swings around in the current. This allows any followers a chance to strike. Spin casting can be very effective on most rivers.
- There are generally 3 types of fly-fishing on a river, dry fly, nymph and streamer fishing.
- Dry fly fishing can be the most exciting type of fly-fishing as you are able to watch the fish taking the fly. The dry fly mimics the mature stage of a fly found on the surface of the water while you are fishing. While dry fly-fishing use a floating line. Leader and tippet size will vary depending on the timidity of the fish. Longer leaders and smaller tippets for timid fish! A floatant of some kind helps keeps your fly on top of the water.
- False casts help dry the fly so it keeps floating and also guides your casting to ensure that you cast to the spot you want.
- Nymphs are simply the bugs on the bottom of the river. In most cases, you will use a floating line when nymphing. You may occasionally use a mid-sinking line. On your floating line you will want a strike indicator. It is helps you know when a fish is striking. Fish often breath the fly in and out, without the indicator you won't always know when a fish is on. An indicator should be up the line about 1.5 to 2 times the depth of the water you are fishing but this also varies with the speed of the water. Faster water means higher up the line to allow the nymph to reach the bottom. We recommend a round cork indicator attached with a toothpick. We find it a more visible indicator and we catch more fish with it!
- Streamer fishing is usually done with a full sink line with a quick sink rate. Fish the "buckets" in the river mentioned above. Cast up the current and let it sink to the bottom. Strip the line in to imitate fry or minnow. Streamer fishing usually produces larger fish as they do tend to hold in deeper water.
- All of these suggestions are prefaced with a strong recommendation that you visit the local tackle or fly shop and ask for information that only the "Locals Know" to ensure success.
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