BoB D,
I always wondered if that was you.First time I floated a river and seriosly persued steelhead was with you on the Satsop when we were young dumb and our prioritys a little screwed up. :p Didn't surprise me to see you guiding though.

I can say that Bob has been fishing all his life and shouldn't have to give too much credit away.

You are an embarrassment to the fishing society. talking about damaging someone else's stuff, just because you don't agree with what he's doing. He's not braking the law. What if the bank anglers flattened your tires on your drift boat trailers or burned your boat in the middle of the night. HHMMMMMMM! makes one think. I'm going to buy a sled and i might just make it up to your neck of the woods. I don't leave home without my sidearm either and if I caught anyone even thinking about touching my stuff BANG!
Maybe devote all this energy into getting sleds LEGALLY banned from the coastoal rivers of the peninsula.
just a little food for thought

Glowball nowhere in this thread does it say anyone is gonna vandalize anyones stuff, we are just saying that it happens. Vandalism is for chickensh*ts. Get a few more posts under you belt smolt before you start that kind of talk.

Ok if you fish the Olympic Peninsula at all you will realize that there are tons of places that with some effort and patience you can find nice water and solitude. The plain and simple fact of the increased fishing pressure is the population increase in Seattle and surrounding areas(this will only get worse as time goes on). Sure the internet does put more people into the Bark hole and such but are they really secret or just easy to get to. I am from New Jersey and moved out here 2 years ago. I have been fishing all of my life and thanks to some of the great posts on this board and some exploratory effort my fishing here has been great(except for all of the crazy snagging folk on the wind). As was said in an earlier post it is not illegal to have a sled. If you don't like the sleds when they hit the lower hoh, hit the upper hoh or one of the other great rivers around.... And vandalism is just plain moronic and childish.
I don't want them there for the record.... And thanks for all of your help.
God this place beats New Jersey.

Well put Devine.
I can't agree more on your last statement.

Adam is missing a rib. M******** hasn't missed a rib in a long time