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Bit of a 'back to basics' kinda question....

I've mapped out sections of my local River Ouse with my Deeper and saved a lot of time.
Btw I would recommend attaching it to a wire trace as ive had a pike or 2 snatch at it while I retrieve it!
It's certainly been interesting to find out why certain swims produce in specific area's, and I've discovered depth changes which explains why the fish are there.
 
I've a Deeper Pro, took it down a local river and wondered what an earth I was doing really.. I reckon trotting a top and bottom float gives me the understanding I need. Maybe not exactly how deep the holes are but enough to know where it deviates which is enough, just seem to be in more direct contact without the faff and seperative nature of looking at a screen.
 
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David Maddison said:
I've mapped out sections of my local River Ouse with my Deeper and saved a lot of time.
Btw I would recommend attaching it to a wire trace as ive had a pike or 2 snatch at it while I retrieve it!
It's certainly been interesting to find out why certain swims produce in specific area's, and I've discovered depth changes which explains why the fish are there.
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Yep good point about wire trace attachment... A few of you guys have recommended doing this. 👍
 
A deeper will certainly pay for itself on a large river like the Thames. I've found some brilliant features on another large river that I'd have never have located otherwise. One particular gulley between two swims produced countless fish over 14lb, 95% of the captures from those two swims came from either end of that feature. Because of its location between swims I'm pretty sure I'd have never located that holding spot otherwise.
 
I am also thinking of getting a deeper for the Thames. Many years ago when I was a small kid I used to fish a stretch of Thames near Oxford with my dad and uncles, and I always remember my dad catching a lot of chub and small barbel from one particular spot. He always said there was a depression or trench there and you had to be on it to catch the barbel. A few years ago I started fishing the stretch again and decided to plumb it to find the depression. It turned out not to be a depression as such, but more like undulations in the river bed, going pretty much from bank to bank. Obviously a geological feature of the river bed, but fishing near bank in the deeper part I did catch some barbel. For some reason, on this stretch at least, the chub seem very scarce.
 
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