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Checked out a site that I never usually look at this evening and read a discussion about high water. In which one was referring to high water as a good thing and promoting good fishing in high water. I know I have done the same in the past... but I question it now... why should useful info be so accessible? Every secret is gone and told to all... crowded water everywhere. Makes one really wonder about internet fishing reports. I know its been beaten and whipped before but im questioning it more than ever right now.

One of the great catches of all time was made by Dave Winfield in his time asd a Yankee.
Leaping dive into the stands ,he was 6'6" and all but his ankles were in the stands,  to rob Doug De Cinces (ex Rochester Red Wing) of  a home run.
You never see a replay of it reportedly because he and Boss Stienbrenner hated each other and George owned the rights to it
How about I just turn this thread into 1/0 part deux?
 
 
I think the damage was done years ago and its too late at this point.
Pinning making it easy to catch steelhead was the real demise.
Once it became easy all the people just concerned with numbers started fishing for steel instead of just snagging salmon.
 

i really don't get the all about the numbers thing
yes i like to catch fish, or even just hook and play them,
but the numbers thing is just nutz
 
some of my best days never had a take

You're probably right two Bob... too late from damage done long ago... I do remember when I first came to this board in 2009 and it died after salmon season. I was shocked. Since then it has become a year round active messaging board through steelhead season. It makes one wonder how many folks got turned on to the river through this board? Or maybe some folks getting re-inspired and brushing the dust off the old rods and getting back out. Even in 2009 the pressure was bad but it has gotten noticeably worse every year since then. IM not so anti pinners like some folks, but I do hate the "salmon" tactics carrying out in to late fall for the large numbers of steel that come through.

And yes guys, good days can be had with no fish.

It is not just the SR, it is an international phenomenon, evidenced by things like the change in non resident regulations in British Columbia.  20 years ago there was Fly Fisherman, now FF, the Drake, Rod and Reel, American Angler, etc.  As long as it is nearly 9K a week to do Alaska, it will be crowded on comparable waters that are closer.   But after the burn down here last fall of letting an Ohio poster know what conditions were like locally, and then having 39 cars from as afar away as W Va and Alaska, based on the plates my brother in law saw, parking in and along a piece of private but open water, and trashing the place, resulting in the loss of nearly a mile of access, from now on the most folks will get from me is either "there are fish in every trickle from Watertown to Buffalo", or "the fish are in the water', and "what are the bitin' on?" will be "the end of TwoBob's line".  Try the Genny, it starts in Bradford County, PA and ends at Lake Ontario, or the Black somewhere between Forestport and Dexter! 
 
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