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WORKING SHARP CORNERS


































































     some spawning duties.
            “You’ve hit it right, I think,” he said.                Hard, sharp corners include things like
     “We’ve  got  good  water  temperature                        bridge abutments and culvert passes like
     (from 58 to 62 during the course of the                        the one seen in the background of this
     day) and the fish are going shallow. I’ve                                    fortunate angler.
     got  half  a  dozen  corner  places  where
     they should be staging and feeding.”
            The  first  place  we  hit  was  a  wide           side of the road so that a sharp 90 degree
     culvert  under  a  bridgeless  section  of                corner  came  out  some  15  feet  on  this
     road.  The  road  builders  had  extended                 larger side of the piping. In the shallows
     the  cement  framework  of  the  piping                   behind  the  road,  Turner  explained  that
     between  the  back  of  a  narrow  bay  and               a thin, high-sloped rivulet, ran down to
     the continuation of the bay on the other                  the water which provided some current



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