Reading Water:
Addressing the Hold of a Pocket
Timothy Kusherets
This hold, called a pocket, has been formed by a large boulder. Many species
of fish prefer to hold in front and to the back of these. To fish in front of
it every cast must be made several yards in front of the slick surface. To fish
the pocket behind the boulder casts are made several feet in front of the boulder
and then drifted on and around the boulder for optimal presentations where holding
fish can get a good long look at the offering. Flies are cast towards the riffle
where they can be fished on the surface, dry flies, or beneath it, wet flies,
to garner hard hitting strikes. Spoons are drifted the same as corkies, spinners,
and baits. Jigs are fished with tip-up bobbers and short leaders. These are
just some techniques that will get fish on the hook in this particular hold.
Reading water is vital to getting fish on the hook. It is the way of many fishing
trips. Every hold can be fished with various fishing techniques, but can you
tell how to fish it by simply looking at the water? This is the question that
must be answered before a single cast is made in order to produce fish reliably
and often.
This is the meat-and-potatoes of this page. Each fishing technique will describe
where they can be used and what fishing gear is best for them.
© Timothy Kusherets 2004/2008
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