Channel Swings

[Lance P]

I have been reading trying to understand what channel swings look like and how to locate them.
I think I have a basic understanding.

Can someone point out a couple creek and main lake channel swings around the 9 mile marker?

Been trying find them using topography map with lake depths.

Thanks

[fishinwrench]

Green bead marks a Mainlake channel swing (could be a bluff, but in this case it really isn't )

Red bead marks a creek channel swing (simply where a creek channel "swings" tight to the bank).

[Lance P]

Thanks for the info.

Gonna try to fish some channel swings this weekend to learn the pattern.

If anyone has advice, would live to hear it.

[fishinwrench]

Consider where the fish will be in the near future (spawning areas), and concentrate on the channel swings that are adjacent to spawning habitat.... like the red bead area.

One key thing to consider and always pay attention to is the angle of the sun (how the shadows lay) on any bank.

Mainlake structure will become less and less productive as the water warms (as a general rule), and then will become more productive again post-spawn.

In my mind a river channel where the flooded river bed is deeper than the fish are likely to be (like the green bead area), might as well be ignored as being a "channel bank". The actual channel has no significance.....any steep bank with cover or structure can be equally as good as a steep bank with a channel in 50+fow.

[Lance P]

Thanks again... will give it a try this weekend.

[bjovan]

PS there are never any fish on those two spots...lol. Good Luck

[fishinwrench]

PS there are never any fish on those two spots...lol. Good Luck

Move that red bead 1" in a Northwesterly direction and you'll find another place to "get skunked". LOL