Greg LaPorta wrote:

How is it that I hear about all of u catching fish and i see pics, but really,
i catch mybe one fish ewvery week if i got out 3 times a week, sometimes i
catch none. I havent even caught a salmon or brown yet. I go to the right
spots....use a variety of things, and it never works. Ive been fishing for a
few years now, and it sucks how i go out every night and neve catch a thing.
Ive been to oatka creek once (some of you may have heard of it)...and i saw
trout surface a bunch of times, and didnt catch one of them. Is it the flies
im using/ I recently started to fly fish, so as most of u can tell im still
clueless on a lot of aspects of it. please help me out here...what am i doing
wrong!!!

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Greg

"Dont Lose the dreams inside your head, theyre only there until your dead"--
DMB

Oatka is a lousey place for beginners. Those are very educated fish,
and are never easy under the best of circumstances. Perhaps if you want
temporary respite, follow a stocking truck! In the long run, it is best
to do like I did - when I moved to western NY 10 years ago, i would
watch the guys who were catching them, and try to figure out what they
were doing. If it wasn't obvious, I would make friends with them,
leading to much more than catching a fish!

Pete Collin