Am starting to get a little antsy about the feeders. Last year more than ever they got pounded cause of high water and I'm already seeing sport shop reports that guys are fishing them. Seems a lot of guys 'discovered'  them in the past couple of years.
  Any fish in those small places now are pre spawn and taking them out will definatley hurt the fishery. Too many guys who "fish" them are the guys who keep and dont release and that will have impact.
   Used to fish them commonly and only see a few guys here and there now if your not an early AM guy the places have been pounded with slashers and the guys who walk up and down in the middle of small brooks looking for fish. GEEEE do they really bite after that?
    I love this fishery and am trying NOT to judge others just cause of the pressure and the fact they are fishing "my" spots. , but the style is killing me.
     Starting to look just like shark season the past year or two with all the same stuff going on. I know it was happening before but not at the level it is now-I pray the guys in Green will be watching from behind a lot of trees.

Its funny you should say that jcy. When we were running our floats in a spot thats tight for 2 guys, 2 dudes came right next to us and walked out to thier chest(I have caught fish where they stood). They were casting the wrong bobber with way too much weight on spinning gear. They ran thier floats in front of both of us jerking it all the way not aware of how deep the water was. Across the way was 3 dudes that were clearly salmon snaggers were lifting all the way. I just kept casting over the lines until they decided to go fish unproperly somewhere else. Its amazing that we have all this info on the internet but dudes fail to research anything. Im on your side retired, I do not eat fish and let all of mine go. Dont get me wrong if a friend wants one Ill give one up a year though. Plus a few garbage bags do not take up alot of room in our backpacks. We alway take out more that we bring in. It takes only 15min to fill a bag and you can throw it out in the parking lot garbage.
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Never really got a chubby fishing for big fish in streams that often aren't as wide as the rod is long. Kinda curtails their ability to fight---but to each their own--I guess.

Imo if fish are caught legit in orwell you are definitely a skilled angler. I don't know how many miles it is they actually make it but its pretty far. I've seen fish in the log jam holes in to may. Some of those jams drop off close to ten feet behind them. Id say its abeautiful component of this river system we fish.

Dime cant say for sure about the eggs. The steelhead started loosing her eggs on shore, I did not see any eggs and realeased the browns in the water without feeling her belly. They sure did look preggo though or just fat. I have to figure out how to get some pics up here. It wouldnt surprise me to see a brown spitting eggs in this river either. That river is really special along with most who fi****.

Ditto on the asking- I always make a big  in the woods sweep around guys who are fishing too - hate it when they walk the edge looking into the pool or seam you are trying to fish -or stop and fish the bottom of a small run or pool 8 yards from ya while your are fishing the top- wont do it to another guy.
   I have come to the conclusion that its the ME generation and they really dont know any better. **s ****s   ( I did the little stars)

Hi Drake-
Guess thats one of my 'issues' with the pressure in the feeders- There is no way the fish are gonna bite with so many guys wading through and slashing away.      
    Used to go with a  5 wt. @  floating line or an ultra-lite 5' spinner with 6 lb and a little mitchel 308 @ fish way back from wherever I thought fish were. Sometimes that meant drifting line around corners and staying way up from pools and runs and using lots of line to get to the "honey hole" to keep the fish as ease. Hiding behind trees made it almost like Deer hunting.
    Now guys stand right over the runs and pools and fish at their feet------no way.
  Seem to be walking those places just watching and looking more often than not with the rod back in the truck these days.
  Got permission to catch and release on a posted area way up on one of them last year and have yet to go there- guess that may be the answer- letem all go anyhow. Its a new spot for me and I hate to leave the areas I fished for years and grew to really like.

Hi Dime,
If you watch most any of those log jams long enough in the right season sooner or later you will  see a tail or  fish.   When calm they will move a bit upstream to a bed or nice run and go right back to the jam when spooked.
The trick is to getem when they are out of the jam and NOT SPOOKED. They always seem to run right back for the fight - but hey who counts how many were landed anyhow.  They are Steel after all----
Thats the problem with all the pressure- I have seen guys with musket ball weights trying to pull em out of the jams by jigging ( straight up snag attempt at a tail). Have sat for an hour or two waiting for them to calm and move out so I can swing around upstream for a nice  downstream drift. Have found that they gotta be out for a while before really calming and going for a bait.
  Unfortunately thats part of the issue. Try standing back and waiting them out while "fishermen' are walking up through the middle of the brook and then ' politely' stepping out and walking the bank looking into the jam your are patiently watching from a few yards back. Some dont even have the common sence to TRY and be polite they just walk in the waters edge and splash through. *** ****S ( my dots)

Beautiful day--beautiful woods---beautiful stream- beautiful fish-- and, in the past,  quiet and peaceful. Catching  a fish is always secondary to fishing anyhow.

I wanted to come up tues 29th AM, float wed am then drive home. couldn't get any takers so I had to cancell...........not happy about that!

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I wanted to come up tues 29th AM, float wed am then drive home. couldn't get any takers so I had to cancell...........not happy about that!

Why cancell? Make the trip solo. Catching mucho steel/browns or possible a 20plus pounder will cure that loneliness real quick.

I hear ya jcy. I used to get off the midnights shift at 6am then drive 5 hours to the river right from work. Fish all day then pass out at 8pm. After making so many trips it feels like a 2hour ride now, unless its snowing from rosco to sr. That blows. When The Itch was so bad I would drive up on sat and leave sunday. If noone was able to go, I still needed my fix. Since joining Steelhead anonymous Im better but still fall of the wagon from time to time. Man I love that river, I might have to call out sick.The precious

Thanks Dime,
 Guess is gonna be up tomorrow PM and fishing Wed Thurs.

750 is nice water good luck retired.