Actually, Hoodsport is a training grounds for rookie fly guys. Fishingjunky, it's been a big push for years since it's easy fishing usually. Gives the budding flyfisherman a boost. Wind shouldn't be a huge problem, if you know how to side arm and load the rod properly to punch it. If it was a direct head wind, that would be different. But hard to cast in crowded conditions with a fly rod. Why I don't fish that zoo. I like to enjoy fishing. Bad enough some other fisheries are being crowded too. Nature of the beast.

I think the big push most of all was by a somewhat famous guide here in WA that claims he founded the fishery. Funny that most people I know have been fishing it for quite awhile, and on a fly to boot. Suddenly he's the founder of it. Like me saying I founded flyfishing on the Nooch. Since I never saw anyone using one since the day I started fishing it. Sure someone before me was doing it as well.

There always seems to be people like that. Normally it's a mixture of things that cause them to do it. That's where it's best to bring ear plugs with you.