refer to my signature line.
btw, i drove out to the wynoochee after work today and fished for about an hour or so. no luck, but couldn't believe how many boats i passed on the road just getting to black creek!
The monday before last my son & I hit the nooch,thinking there would be less people,man were we wrong,we put in at the 7400 bridge,when we arrived at 0-dark-thirty,there were 11 trucks & trailers already there
,my son took the truck down to the take out & rode the scooter back,took him 40 minutes,by the time he had returned,9 more boats put in,in which I had helped them all with unloading there boats,trying to be a nice guy,a few guys didnt even say thanks,wtf,so much for trying to be nice,so we took our time & fished hard,had 1 hit all day,but was passed up by16 more boats.So even during the week,the pressure is unreal on most rivers.
another one of my tricks...on rivers that mostly see DB traffic, fish low in the mornings, fish high in the afternoon.
snuck out to the river for 2 hours before work today...beautiful weather, and landed a 12" cutt, but no steelhead. no other company than one other guy that came floating through in a drift boat.
reading your post takes me back a couple years. i drove up to the wynoochee a half hour before first light only to get passed by a bunch of cars with gamakatsu, loomis and lamiglas stickers plastered over them by montesano. it was fairly obvious where they were going. drive up the valley, there's already 20 trailers at black creek....head up to the crossover, another dozen assorted rigs. didn't even bother going to white bridge. decided to try "plan B" and headed to a river where the pressure would surely be less. i was right...all by myself, and 4 casts later i have a keeper on the bank.
moral of the story: there are less guys fishing than there were in the "good old days". however, they really hammer the so-called "hot" rivers now. the upside of that is that is that that takes anglers off the rivers that are less of a "sure thing"(of course it's a little oversimplified, there IS less overall access fewer open streams now), but you can get that peace and quiet if you look for it and do your homework. just be prepared to work harder for your fish...you'll get them.
