08-12-2006, 02:09 PM
TD,
Of course, your right. I was generalizing as you suggested. There are always acceptions with fish behavior, though we don't always find them before we run out of daylight. In fact, the challenge of finding the active fish or figuring out the "puzzle" that gets inactive fish to bite is a part of the game that keeps guys interested after many years of fishing. I have a friend in Washington who nearly always does well with steelhead. As you know, on this part of the West Coast, that is often a low numbers game. (The days when fish are suicidal are few.) If there are fish in the system, and anybody catches any, he's usually one of them. Sometimes he's probably the only one. He's aggressive, covering miles of river on foot and in his truck in a day. He has the faith to stay with it, "eliminating water" until he finds that one active (or at least provokable) fish. A good guide usually has a pack of special tricks up his sleeve unique to his water that will help a client connect during such down times.
[cool]I still wonder if the fish don't sometimes post that sign underwater though. We just catch the ones that haven't seen it yet or perhaps the illiterate ones.
z~
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Of course, your right. I was generalizing as you suggested. There are always acceptions with fish behavior, though we don't always find them before we run out of daylight. In fact, the challenge of finding the active fish or figuring out the "puzzle" that gets inactive fish to bite is a part of the game that keeps guys interested after many years of fishing. I have a friend in Washington who nearly always does well with steelhead. As you know, on this part of the West Coast, that is often a low numbers game. (The days when fish are suicidal are few.) If there are fish in the system, and anybody catches any, he's usually one of them. Sometimes he's probably the only one. He's aggressive, covering miles of river on foot and in his truck in a day. He has the faith to stay with it, "eliminating water" until he finds that one active (or at least provokable) fish. A good guide usually has a pack of special tricks up his sleeve unique to his water that will help a client connect during such down times.
[cool]I still wonder if the fish don't sometimes post that sign underwater though. We just catch the ones that haven't seen it yet or perhaps the illiterate ones.
z~
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