Any cold winter fishing tips

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If you turn up at a water to find it frozen over, all is not lost; before you give up and go home have a look around and look for small areas of thin cracked or melted ice (like in the link below), this often reveals where an under water spring is located and this can be valuable information and can be a fish magnet at any time of the year (they usually stay at the same temperature all year round, feeling cool during a hot summer and feeling warm in the depths of winter).


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Keith

Good tip that.

Also, many streams entering rivers and lakes are often warmer than the larger bodies they feed especially if they come from underground sources. Wildfowl are a good sign of warmer water. Geese, ducks and cormorants will rest in warmer areas of lakes and rivers when not feeding. It only takes a fraction of a degree above the norm to make an area attractive to birds and fish.