Willi wrote:

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

I'm with you on this Willi. I've fished Lake Lenore for the big
Lahontan Cutthroats a couple times this year, and have found 30
fishermen spaced 20 feet or less apart at the north end of the lake,
and 3 other fishermen over the 6 mile length of the rest of the lake.
I left that area in disgust last week, and stopped at another obvious
place along the road. The fish were swimming by in pods of three to 10
fish spaced only a minute apart. Granted, most weren't ready to take a
fly, but in a couple hours I landed 5 in the 18-22 inch range. It
would have been more if one of the bums wasn't rising every couple
minutes. I switched to a dry and wasted half an hour or more trying to
coax him up.

I'm going back there tomorrow, and I bet I'll find the same silly
clustering of the fishermen.

By the way, your lesson on indicator fishing has been a great help this
year on the steelhead, and with these cutthroat. Thanks again for that
help.

Chas
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