The next few days will all be out of an article in the July/ August/Sept "North American Fisherman" magazine. I thought it was interesting.
Once Bitten by Hal Schramm "If you/ve ever wondered how fish react to fishing pressure, a new study on brown trout offers tantalizing clues. To gauge different responses to angling pressure between heavily fished and relatively untouched populations, biologists measure the catch rates and various behaviors of brown trout in two back country News Zealand rivers. The Ugly river is a wilderness stream accessible only by hiking 10 hours through untracked and difficult terrain. the second site was the Owen river, which is easily accessed by road and has high fishing pressure for a backcountry river. Both are 50 to 100 feet side, provide the same habitat, and have similar densities and size structures. more to come Rick
