1. Learn to read your electronics which will lead to learning what to look for.
2. Watch what other fishermen are doing. I have run across a few that are fussy. But, most want to share there knowledge (not their fishing hole).
3. I wished this was my saying so I will quote some one else from this web site; "Fish where they are. Not where they ain't."
DP
I am a heterosexual male. 2 Chronicles 7:14
"If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."