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Originally posted by Todd:
Every once in a while a fly-guy will get a bit up in arms saying that gear guys have so many more places to fish...which, of course, is pure bunk. I always ask them "Show me one, single, place in the State where a flyfisherman cannot fish during an open season"...which they can't.
I think it would be pretty hard to FF for springers in the Columbia. Or how about chinook at Pt. Defiance? Or lake trout in Chelan? There are many places like these that it is nearly impossible to get a fly down to the fish. Now you said "open areas" and yes fly fishers can fish anywhere but, that does not mean that they can fish for what the gear guys are targeting and catching.This is what I belive thouse fly fishermen ment by what they said.

Oh and about anadromous areas, I belive that FF only is a great way to help a fishery since 95+% of fish caught by fly fishermen are released. It's just what most fly fishermen do. I don't belive that you will get that percentage in a "selective gear" water.
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