Originally Posted by dixieangler
I will be fishing a canal early tomorrow from a canoe that has Specks in it and it has a bridge also. But we usually just go up the canal and then drift back down current (steering with oars) outside the lily pads in about 8 to 12 feet of water with our lines and floats out until we hit a school. Then we try to either anchor or else stay on that school if possible, otherwise we continue to drift back down current. The slow natural canoe drift with the jigs and minnows seem to work best for us. Later we go to just outside the bridge and anchor so we can cast to and under the bridge along the pilings without disturbing the Specks. No holes on this canal like on the lakes, just lily pads and subsurface weedbeds. The canal is just that, a flat bottom with banks. Don't know how long we will stay, depends on the biting mood of the Specks. I might try the fly rod near the bridge and along the lily pads. If the Specks don't cooperate, then maybe the bream will. I need to put some fillets in the freezer.
