Photo from our local fishing spot. The river there is roughly 120-150m wide. The fish species include perch, asp, pike and probably trout & zander.
Posted by Tirpantuijottaja
Photo from our local fishing spot. The river there is roughly 120-150m wide. The fish species include perch, asp, pike and probably trout & zander.
Posted by Tirpantuijottaja
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Looks like it’s at low water right now, good opportunity to scout out channels and features. Otherwise if you can’t walk the banks watch for riffles where there’s shallow pebble/stone runs up near the surface and fish the calm spot right below them if you can walk out to them safely. Bring a lifejacket too, unexpectedly finding a hole or an unsteady rock happens.
Top water or live bait,
Find a spot where swift water enters into a slow moving pool. Fish the boundary between those two sections. Oh yeah, stand downstream from that boundary so your casting your line upstream.
Looks for channels, downed trees, and jetties for predators to hide in. I’d also look for any streams feeding into the main river. Cast into stream and let the current take your bait to the main water
Minnow or imitation a jig head heavy enough to get to the bottom, but not so heavy it snags.
Boat. If you insist on not doing that, then a heavy jig (swim or otherwise) with enough to weight to not be bullied by the current would be a good pick if you’re fishing for actively hunting predatory fish. If you’re fishing for more scavenging style fish, like catfish, get a heavy weight on a slip that allows up to 16″ of slack and hook on a small bait fish (alive or cut). And if you just want to catch fish a bobber a worm, grub, or insect will catch you just about anything that spies it.
All of these options will have their efficiency compounded significantly if one of the few shore areas you can access allows you to cast into an eddies. And as well, structure under the water is prime real-estate for predatory fish even if it’s in the middle of the current – just remember they’ll be behind it, on the opposite side of the flow. These structured areas will excell with the jigs, or even the catfish setup of the structure is large enough and you have enough weight to keep the bait by it.