Fishing Techniques
Probing Water
Ultra fast way to cover huge reaches of water in
minutes instead of hours!
Timothy Kusherets
This was a straight stretch of the river. Look at
the logs on the other side of the river. To properly probe the length
of it I started at the top of the hold casting about ten yards upriver
before the first branches of the logjam. Probing water, like this reach,
is the fastest way to garner strikes. If you don’t get hits from
small areas like this fast then move on. Either fish are off the bite
or there aren’t any. It’s that simple.
This technique of drift-fishing allows fishermen to cover an enormous
amount of water in a very short period of time. Probing water is meant
for those times that are in between seasons from one species to the
next where there is a lull in hookups due to a significant lack of fish
as one run finishes and another one move in the same area. It is a versatile
way to cover ground with just about any kind of gear setup.
Probing is best done on stretches of the river where there are no obvious
places for fish to hold. Assume the river is flowing from left to right.
Cast upriver to the ten and eleven o’clock positions and reel
in the slack. Allow the mainline to drift until it has reached the one
and two o’clock positions before reeling in the line to make another
cast. It’s that simple.
To figure out the distance think in terms of water visibility. Address
the water and cast out as far as the river is clear. If the water has
six feet of visibility then the first cast should be six feet, every
cast thereafter will also be six feet. If the water has three feet then
cast three feet until the width of the river has been covered. When
moving down river cover the same distance of water visibility and then
start the casting process over; boaters should beach their crafts long
enough to cover the reach.
Probing Technique
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© Timothy Kusherets 2008/10
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