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eddies  and current breaks  are they that easy to spot  . how do you guys fish them

The easiest way that I can say to find an eddie, is to look behing an object sticking up out of the water in current. It may be a rock, a bridge pillar, or a log. A point sticking out in to the current flow will create an eddie also, as will an island. You can learn how an eddie works by simply placing a small piece of styro-foam behind the object and actually see an eddie at work so to speak.

As far as fishing an eddie, I normally cast up stream and bring the lure down past the object and close to the object with the main flow of current.

I concur ernls post, and add that you wont always find a protruding object as the cause. The outside margin of riverbends just down from the apex of the curve is just about a guarantee for an eddy. Look for a change in the surface of the water- it may be rather subtle.  Trash / sticks / .....etc can pool up in an eddy and if a high current river may even see a bit of foam or even swirl patterns on the surface. Then again it may show as a dead calm spot. agree also on tip to fish them.

Big eddies are easy to spot like the guys have already said. The still or swirl water will give them away.Don't overlook the small ones that are only a couple foot wide. Those fish are in that calm water resting or close to the current edge waiting for a meal to come down river, the faster the water the more they concentrate in and along the eddie. As I recall you are on foot wadeing so aproach from down river and cast up, they are usually faceing the current.

L.D.

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