Post by Chris C Crane on Nov 19, 2007 9:57:34 GMT -5
I am on a bit on an educational campaign or rant. This probably doesn't mean much to the majority of fine folks who frequent this OOFS site, but in the chance a light bulb turns on somewhere....
Yesterday I arrived at the river at 6:30am, geared up and hiked a mile upstream to my favorite productive "flat" along a fallen tree. I positioned myself at the head of the run/flat and began working it. I know there's fish, I can actually see the change of direction in the water from their tails just sub-surface. patience don't work too fast... get the right speed the right swing. It's really cold...the cast will have to be perfect...patience. What the "F"??
This guy walks right into the run 20 feet downstream from me. I say " I'm working my way down this fallen tree" He shoots me a look like what's F's my problem. Then he wades into the middle of the river and stands right in the tail-out. My most productive water all year. I had planned on cycling through this run several times before giving up on it. Again I say, "your standing right in the middle of the tail-out" Deaf ears. Make matters worse... he catches and lands a Steelie. His buddy come over takes a picture and then Joins him in the same 30 foot run that I was working. I'm standing fuming at the head I guess my disgusted facial expression was obvious, because he told his buddy to move downstream while pointing in my direction "That guy thinks he owns the river, F'em".
In my younger days, words would been exchanged and I would have let him know just how much of a moron I thought he was. Yesterday I reeled up and moved on. I came back later in the day and hooked up right where the idiot had been standing in the tail-out.
Rick Kustich posted this awhile ago in Fly Fisherman magazine and I am making a point of refreshing it for those who may not be enlightened as of yet...
POOL/RUN ROTATION ETIQUETTE
The wet-fly swing technique--an efficient way of searching for aggressive steelhead--works best where there is room for fishermen to rotate through the pool. The etiquette comes from Atlantic-salmon fishing: an angler casts and allows his fly to swing and stop; then he takes one step downstream and repeats the cast, swing, and step until he reaches the tail-out of the pool. He then begins the rotation again at the head of the pool, behind the fly fishers who are moving down the pool, now ahead of him. This procedure allows every angler to have an opportunity at the water. The etiquette system breaks down if all anglers do not understand and cooperate.
Cheers and good fishing.
Crane
Yesterday I arrived at the river at 6:30am, geared up and hiked a mile upstream to my favorite productive "flat" along a fallen tree. I positioned myself at the head of the run/flat and began working it. I know there's fish, I can actually see the change of direction in the water from their tails just sub-surface. patience don't work too fast... get the right speed the right swing. It's really cold...the cast will have to be perfect...patience. What the "F"??
This guy walks right into the run 20 feet downstream from me. I say " I'm working my way down this fallen tree" He shoots me a look like what's F's my problem. Then he wades into the middle of the river and stands right in the tail-out. My most productive water all year. I had planned on cycling through this run several times before giving up on it. Again I say, "your standing right in the middle of the tail-out" Deaf ears. Make matters worse... he catches and lands a Steelie. His buddy come over takes a picture and then Joins him in the same 30 foot run that I was working. I'm standing fuming at the head I guess my disgusted facial expression was obvious, because he told his buddy to move downstream while pointing in my direction "That guy thinks he owns the river, F'em".
In my younger days, words would been exchanged and I would have let him know just how much of a moron I thought he was. Yesterday I reeled up and moved on. I came back later in the day and hooked up right where the idiot had been standing in the tail-out.
Rick Kustich posted this awhile ago in Fly Fisherman magazine and I am making a point of refreshing it for those who may not be enlightened as of yet...
POOL/RUN ROTATION ETIQUETTE
The wet-fly swing technique--an efficient way of searching for aggressive steelhead--works best where there is room for fishermen to rotate through the pool. The etiquette comes from Atlantic-salmon fishing: an angler casts and allows his fly to swing and stop; then he takes one step downstream and repeats the cast, swing, and step until he reaches the tail-out of the pool. He then begins the rotation again at the head of the pool, behind the fly fishers who are moving down the pool, now ahead of him. This procedure allows every angler to have an opportunity at the water. The etiquette system breaks down if all anglers do not understand and cooperate.
Cheers and good fishing.
Crane
