eddies

[swamp_fox]

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

[ernel]

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.

[chad km5qf]

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.

[L.D.]

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.