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Subsurface lures usually produce best in comparatively shallow water. Most big fish are taken in a stream when the lure is worked fairly close to the bottom. A consistent rule is: Go deeper to root out the lunkers. Good subsurface lures are bucktail or beaded lures, wet flies, weighted flies, plugs, Creek Chub pikies, streamers and spinners. The Preska may weigh only 1/8 ounce, can be handled nicely in most waters as it does not have the tendency to sink too fast. But like all headless spinners, it will eventually twist the line unless a centerboard head is used. The impact of most standard lures in shallow water will sned fish scurrying for foxholes. Under such conditions, a small light-weighted spinner can be effective, say, a 1/10-ounce job with a silver blade and a brass-bead body. Hold the small blade almost stationary in the current and steer it slowly through every fishy-looking pocket, around rocks, undercuts and obstructions. Slowly. Always pause, hopefully, a minute or two in such likely spots. Out of seemingly barren water this teasing action may bring a reluctant behemoth. It is the deep-water angler, however, who fishes under the heaviest currents, we'll go into this much more fully in Chapter III, Fish and Water, who usually picks up the trophy fish. This water should be the prime target of the spinman.
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