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Location: Wisconsin | I have a few rivers near me that I have not fished during mid summer. I have been successful fishing them in the end of may/early june, but I have always wondered if they would also be productive during the hotter weeks of summer.
For those of you that fish these "smaller" rivers (20-50yds wide, 3-10ft deep, yet very long) in mid summer, how do you go about approaching them?
Edited by WiscoMusky 2/19/2015 12:13 AM
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| I fish a few rivers that match that description. Generally, I move pretty quick through the shallow flats, throwing a topwater or burning a small bucktail. If they are on the flats, they are usually feeding, so you usually know pretty quick. The majority of my fish come from the deeper holes, so I fish those real slow, picking apart every bit of it with a mix of baits. Some holes I will drift through multiple times in order to hammer it from all angles with multiple baits. It's sometimes that 3rd or 4th time down when they finally show themselves. | |
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| Lumpy wrote almost exactly what I would write. One last thing though - I'll really slow down to hit shallow slack water too - not just deep. Others disagree, but fast current, shallow water seems fruitless to me.
And August is my favorite. | |
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Medium to small size river fishing