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Reading Water & Finding Fish
How do depth changes affect where fish hold?
Drop-offs, ledges, and channel edges concentrate fish because depth changes provide multiple comfort zones in close proximity — a fish can quickly move from cool deeper water to shallow feeding water and back. Fish typically suspend or hold on the lip of the drop, where structure meets the depth change.
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