Fishing without a fish finder

[pontoonman]

My experience is finders not useful in rivers, unless there are very deep and large dammed up sections. Plenty of fish are caught in shallow water around structure where you can't use a finder. It was a contradiction that at one time I had a large high overhead outfitted boat that was used mostly to catch fish in the shallows, which you could almost do from the bank- If you had access. Pontoons now let me go to the virgin places, inaccessible by any other means where my big boat couldn't go in most cases. But once you know a lake and the patterns of how fish gather, you can use a finder to quickly confirm where they are for deep jigging, locating deep structure and such. Is most fly fishing done for fish in deep enough water to utilize a finder is a question that some of the pros here can answer... I do have a finder for my pontoon but haven't used it in years, yet do well on most trips anyway.

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