How to Locate a Fishing Spot by Triangulation

Find a fishing hot spot where the fish are always biting? Here's how to find it again and again by triangulation.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Handheld GPS Navigation System
• First Aid Kits
• Compasses
• Fishing Vests
• Tackle Boxes

1. Point your boat or body eastward as soon as you know you've found a fishing spot worth remembering.

2. Look for an easily identifiable, permanent object straight ahead, such as a rock outcropping, road, tree or bluff.

3. Check to the north (across your left shoulder) and find another permanent object - ideally, of a different type than the one before - to use as a reference point.

4. Look to the south (across your right shoulder) and find a permanent object to use as yet another reference point.

5. Memorize these three landmarks or jot them down in a notebook.

6. Recall these markers the next time you want to find that spot.

7. Face east as you look for that eastward landmark, then adjust your alignment until the other directional markers fall into place as you remember them.

8. Go fish.

Tips & Warnings

• Determine which way is east by using a compass, or simply remember that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Use a Global Positioning System (GPS) to be exact.
• Keep a small notebook and pen in your tackle box to jot down the locations of different fishing spots.
• Expect changes in nature - trees grow, rocks slide - and make notes of changes.

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