River Fishing

Fishing rivers I've kinda slacked off as I usually don't fish anywhere but keystone but fishing rivers there's just one or two basic rules I live by ... use bait that is natural to the fish ... using store bought bait will just lead you to disappointment .... that stuff is just a way to get your hard earned money and you won't catch any fish but maybe one or two the whole day unless you use it in a farm pond where the fish are being fed regularly by the landowner. It's always best to fish structure upstream from brush piles/log jams or rock ledges. Fishing in wide open areas is okay just as long as the water is rising from a recent rain.

For jugline fishing I like to use a hook that I'd never use for rod&reel except in extremely fast moving water and those are large Kahle hooks .... they're a weird looking hook and a person will miss a lot of strikes on them with rod&reel but for juglines they're great ... they hook the fish really well on juglines and have kind of a cam action and will twist around and hook blues several times when they twist and thrash around ... I like to use shad heads and whole perch on juglines.