October 17, 2003
• Mark Hicks
• Archives
Tail waters
• Work midriver shoals and drop-offs in slack water.
• Fish shoreline current breaks during fast flows. These include steep banks, points, pockets, bounders and snags.
Power-generating lakes
• Creek and river channel ledges.
• River bends.
• Junctures of creek and river channels.
Rivers
• Eddies at the ends of wing dams.
• Eddies in tributary mouths.
• The heads and the tails of islands.
• Bridge abutments.
Tidal waters
• Bridge abutments, snags, boulders, laydowns, points and rock piles.
• Eddies at the mouths of tributaries and drain ditches.
Locks
• Lock walls, pilings and any boulders, snags, points or pockets along the shoreline.
Wind currents
• Bridges.
• Points.
• Jetties.
• Small openings between land masses and islands.