Uncovered---Secrets of the tactical salmon "flyfisher"!

Arrive at LFZ parking lot at 4:30 already in waders for fishing that is legal at 6:39.
Garb your chair sling on your backpack and hit the trail for that grueling 10 minute hike to the water you intend to not move an inch from before dinner time.
 
 
PS--- what does it tell you about the progress of the run when the drift boats are putting in at Pinegrove at 4:15.
 
Might just go back to the tent and nap.
Too old for this......
 

Sounds about right.........

I gave up that odark thirty crap once it became a red light district .
Will say George O' kinda has the right idea motoring up instead of walking down , NOT !! Things that go bump in the night is what scare me about the river
Time for my injection of morphine , this sucks worse then the fishing .

Right on Charlie,
As you may or not know , I never even fished the LFZ until I met you and jack . I always thought of it as a lifter or snobs area .i was always a more open space guy in the UFZ . In the time fishing there (LFZ) with you guys it was nothing of the sort , it was fun as heck and not that awful crowded . Some of my best times on the river came from netting jack & your steelhead as well as having my son learn what a knuckle buster was .
Alas though, you hit things on the head of what it's become since experiencing the red coats and red lights . In the few other times I been back I see the same guys doing the same thing , macho liners or stealth snaggers we said . You get the guy who will stand in the prime spot ALL day and hook fish after fish and think he is the greatest on the river while some poor guy will be struggling just around him hoping and praying the tool bag gives up his spot and leaves .
The decent thing would at least offer others a turn , I'm not saying rotating is the way to go but it might work in that short stretch.

Thanks for the well wishes folks and looks like I'm getting let out of the asylum soon , again . Sure hope it stays this way and look forward to fishing with you guys again .
3- fan , we should hook up if you can this fall , that might lift my spirit and feelings towards the SR
Peace & Tuna

Good for you, 2b. Nanc and I were passing thru there,  hiking  to the empty upper and as I passed one of the line on the north gravel he snickered and said Good f'in luck, as if I was a latecomer to the in -the -know fly hipsters, and I would be able to neither rub elbows with  or gain membership into the cool guys line. The cut in the trees across from "the rock" that enables people to move on and off the gravel and get in the water to go up river was completely  and very rudely blocked by a line of lawn chairs. I couldn't help but think that, in other places, these people couldn't fish to save their lives, and the learning curve for many species would be far beyond them; unless they were hand held and breast fed by a guide. Just above the fray was a guy with his waders round his ankles pizzing on the path. My turn to snicker and warn him my wife was right behind me and it might be embarrassing for him. To his (and his prostates) credit he waddled off into the trees, waders held around his knees . I did note, that in my own addled way of thinking, the Church Pool is now the "Compactor 2", as people have been packed in  closer than even the Town Pool. Maybe a fist fight will be videoed on "the Wall"  , achieving lasting fame in the annals of the River. Even better if it's a Dawn-like catfight.  Between all the manly colognes and cigar smoke, it may overpower the dead salmon smell and the reek of unburied Charmin lillies, so if you have a sensitive nose , just may be the place to be.

Thanks L , I'm back home again for who knows how long though. Still no work, drive , drink or hunt . Tree stands are definitely out.
Ha know , as I say no rotation, I actually practice rotation anyway. I cast a few then step, cast step. It kinda makes all the sense in the world in the LFZ now that I think about it
Did get the new ( scam) grateful dead 30 trips around the sun box set ( retail $699.00)
Delivered ( pirate ) to my computer today so something's happening

Same thing one mid Winter in Kiddie-guy went to lunch and his friends were saving
,his, spot-got a bit dicey and I ended up just going way  downriver outa the zone-
The mind was willing but the reality is -too old to play that.
One day am gonna get in trouble----
So many azz hats----

Hear ha loud and clear . Don't know the answer and Spey ain't the way . Sometimes it's just best to fish and forget

Clint, RG  I remember you posting about it last year.
That is why I mentioned it was still going on.
 

My personal favorite was in the early 80s.
Lucky and I had met a couple guys fromVT.
I showed them a spot at the old silo hole that Lucky and I (by other peoples accounts) played) between 75 and 100 steelhead one day.
When I came back the next week they were there and didn't give me a chance to fish it.
 
I read once in I think Ray Berman's book about Major Mott going out to a dangerous  place to wade at midnight to be ahead some people he knew were going to try and beat him to the spot.
He waited until they were most of the way out when he  (according to Bergman) calmly lit a cigarette.
I did my best impression so they knew someone was already there.
When they got there I made sure to take up as much of the sweet spot as possible.
 
I mean you show them a spot, explain how to fish it, give them flies and then they don't let you fish. WTF?

2B- unfortunately it seems to be the way of the world these days.   
 

Dime if you get a chance take a peak at the crowds this afternoon (Tues) and report.
I am coming up tomorrow and am trying to get a handle on where I want to go. 
 

   Darn was that this week I thought it was next week. I guess I'll have to meet up with him another time.

twobob
Dime if you get a chance take a peak at the crowds this afternoon (Tues) and report.I am coming up tomorrow and am trying to get a handle on where I want to go.  

Not sure if I can swing it but will let you know if I do

The troll patrol is OTW, you can get a report over a free beer!