Larry L wrote:


MY guess ( guess is as close to science as I get ) is that fishing pressure
will be largely self regulating, over time. When crowds get terrible, the
experience gets terrrible, the fish hide in terror, fishing gets real tough,
and word gets out that "fishin' hole X" ain't what it used to be and crowds
drop off to start the cycle over again. Just my guess, but, a couple of my
responders hinted at the same idea.




It doesn't seem that way to me. I would be willing to bet that, at least
in the Rockies, less than 10% of our trout streams/rivers get 90%+ of
the fishing pressure. The places that are popular haven't changed much
over the last ten years and I don't know of any that have gotten less
popular because of crowds. It seems to me that fly fishermen draw more
fly fishermen, not the other way around.

Willi