I've been fly fishing all my life but only this year have decided to try for salmon and steelhead in the rivers. What little I've learned is that first and foremost the fish have to be in the river. But how do you find that out?
I hesitate to bring this up with the current tenor of the email list but maybe I'm defining a group of folks who have this problem in common. With the crowding we find on the rivers these days many folks are reluctant to pass on information about what waters are "on", I can understand that, but it doesn't help me much. My frustration is that I can ultimately figure out flies and techniques that work but not if I don't have fish to try them on. So all I want to know every now and then is where my odds of finding fish are high so I can work on learning the rest. In fact I'm really enjoying having to learn new tactics, it's breathing life back into the sport for me; but the seemingly necessary tight lippedness of my brethren is a frustrating dilemma. I have a family and my own business so I only get a day here and there to hit the water. Tomorrow is one of those days and I'm looking for information on which rivers might be ripe for some fishing. I look at the flows online but without experience they don't mean much by themselves. Where do I go to get such information? Fly shops, the web, or sell my soul? Have fun Paul
