Most of the fish in a river are in a small part of it. A beginner walks up to the nearest deep-looking pool, stands on the bank above it, and drops a bait into the middle. The fish saw him coming three paces back, and the ones that did not were never in the middle anyway. An experienced angler walking the same stretch spends the first ten minutes not fishing…
In this lesson
How fish behave
How fish sense you
Reading a river: riffles, runs, pools, glides and tails
Bends, banks and the deepest channel
Eddies, seams, boulders and undercut banks
Weed beds, shade and structure
Reading the water surface
Putting it together: walking a beck
Common mistakes
Check yourself
Key points
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