fishing deep moving water

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That isnt particularly deep Mark.I found on the real deep stretchs/places on the Saone (30'+) there were very few fish any way! ...

 

The St Lawrence carp often swim and feed in water deeper than thirty feet, and I've had some of my very best catches in very strong flowing water of 35-45ft deep. From the bank it is best to find a point, bridge or some mainland outcrop that juts out into the flow so that your lead holds better without swinging round.

 

The best of all is to anchor a boat in 25ft-50ft water (depending on the swim) and then fish directly out of the back of the boat (or double anchor if there is a boiling or changing current).

 

I prefer to use 5-6oz flat pear leads or gripper leads most of the time, depending on the situation and flow. In extreme flow I may clip the line in the line clip of a heavy down-rigger ball and lower this down behind the boat (you must experiment with the tention of the line clip, depending on river currents).

 

In very extreme currents over deep holes, the bottom flow is nowhere near the flow of the surface layers, and this may make it almost impossible to hold bottom correctly. In these situations I normally tie the rig to a heavy rock using a lighter break-off line, and then gently lower to the bottom from the back of a boat.