Wow, look at all the turmoil. I too agree that alot of pressure on a small stream can ruin one's quality of a trip. But, everyone has the same chance to find water. I for one love exploring new fisheries. Here's what you do---Hold on to you're hat's, it real tough. Get the reg's, get a map, and get in you're rig and drive. If you really want to get tricky, Go to the WDFW page and look at the numbers of smolt planted two years ago. This isn't rocket science guys. It doesn't take too long to figure out which streams are going to have the masses. If a river gets 400,000 smolts planted in 1999, gee... It's gonna have a crowd associated with it. If you see Creek "X" gets 40,000 smolt planted, and you've never heard of creek "X" on this site or in F-H Lies, then it's probably a good idea to keep it to yourself. This is for brat fishing, nates are another story. You can find fish, and few people if you put forth the effort.

Have fun, I'll be fishing Creek "X" this weekend.

Aaron