Hoglander, sorry I strike you as arrogant. Which guy in that picture with the 60 people lined up over 100 yards of river is you?


And what kind of problem would we have should I advise you that green has been a good color lately? Are you going to offer to punch me? Or is the pepper spray still your weapon of choice?


If you enjoy fishing in a crowd that's fine. Some people honestly enjoy it as a social event. This post was really directed more at people who fish in the middle of a crowd and then whine about the crowding later.
Also I don't hand out advice unsolicited. I get irritated at anglers that come over and ask me what I am using, where the fish are, and if they can fish next to me. And then ignore my advice and spook the fish in the hole. It is annoying and rude.
BigFin did you not read my post? The major theme was all about getting away from the crowd. The fish that were in front of me were not wound up, or pressured by anybody but me and my girlfriend. In fact we went through a huge skein of fresh eggs in about 2 hours because they kept getting crushed. I didn't see anybody else fishing bait, although I didn't spend a whole lot of time surveying the crowd.


I managed to get in about an hour of fishing at the end of the day today. I got to see a maestro walk down the bank picking out pockets of water to fish. He was pretty much by himself. I saw him hook 2 nice fish on an aerofly in about 15 minutes. He said he had landed 12 fish that day. Meanwhile the guys just downstream of us landed 0 fish the last hour of the day. I doubt a guy goes through the trouble and expense of buying aeroflies just to snag fish. The one I saw landed was hooked right in the mouth. Thats the kind of guy I look for to answer my questions.