Sol_on_the_Duc:

No easy answer.........Guess if I knew that the river had that many bank anglers.....boat would stay home and I'd join the rest of the crowd.

Same thing happens in a local river that has summer run steelhead. Boaters get there early but every hole that holds fish has at least 1 bank person that has probably gone in with a flashlite to "get his rock to stand on".

The problem you decribe is only going to get worse......more people retiring, more people that have $$$$$$ to spend, and more that want to "take up" fishing and being in the wild.

Ohhhhhhhhhh for the "good old days"!!!! When I could winter run fish and see maybe 10 people all day or my summer run fishing and some days not see another fisherperson.


"Worse day sport fishing, still better than the best day working"