Fish are often inside fast current behind a rock, log or other obstruction where the current is disrupted. As a matter of fact I found it to be one the best places to fish because the faster current brings more food down. The fish see the food, pop out of the hiding spot and back in until next morsel comes along.

As far at the original thread; I'm a huge fly fisherman. I just don't want to talk about it right now because I'm snowed in and can't go right now. It's like needing to get laid then exacerbating the problem by looking at nudie mags.

:D

I think a lot of the difference in opinion on river holding water is due to the different species that people are targeting.

Agreed. This is actually what the big cats are doing in a creek mouth, behind a log jam, around a bend or wherever. They’re sitting in the slow water watching the current sweep stuff by. If something tasty looking goes by, something worth the effort of getting out in the current to go after, they’ll attack.
Same principal, larger structures.

I hear ya. This has been a particularly long, cold, harsh winter and I’m going stir crazy.
I’ve also got the fever to go shoot something. Gear-head Wrenching buddy traded his Sigma for a Charles Daly 1911 and when he came over to show it off it just made my shooting itch that much worse.

I think we’re talking a different current too.
When you look out across the river and see it sweeping trees with a 3’ diameter trunk, or bigger, down stream you’re not going to find many fish out fighting that current. The ones that are out there are on the move somewhere, or like Otter posted popping up just long enough to grab a morsel then back into the slow spots.
You’re also going to have a hard time keeping bait on your hook or putting enough sinker on it to keep it down.

There aren't many pictures on here so I thought I would throw up one of my own.
This is a spoony I caught last summer by Truman dam when we were fishing for crappie. Caught on a crappie pole with 6 lb test.
Thank god for Trilene high performance!
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hope this link works!:D

Well I guess it didn't work!

Make a photobucket account, upload that file, and then it will work.

Some our local flyrodders targeted spoonbills with good results around here:

http://www.mcflyshop.com/images/repo...sspoonbill.jpg

It's sort of a game around here to try to target "nontraditional" fly rod species with a fly rod.

Use the attachment feature on the post page.
You may have to trim your image to fit maximum size requirements though.

HTH you get a spoonbill to take a fly?

Or use tinypic.

http://tinypic.com/

You don't even need an account for that? Never knew. Yeah, use that one.

They flossed them (snagged). So yeah, you don't really get them to take a fly. You can, however, convince gar to take a fly:

http://www.flyfishga.com/gar.htm

Ah, that makes sense then.

I have heard of that.
Personally I get my fill of gar fishing the river with perch and goldfish, they're the junk fish getting in the way of my catfishing. ;)

I dare someone to go noodle one of these up.

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