Salmo g.

I did not say there is anything wrong with it. It is an observtion.

Like the internet, radio shows etc it has evolved. I feel it has added to the people fishing rivers, whether for Salmon or Steelhead. I grew up back east using a Spinning Reel. I understand why people use it. It makes fishing easier. Just like the internet, radio shows etc do. They tell people what to use, where to go etc. Spinning Reel is easier to cast, no backlash etc.

I took customers out with a guide for Coho on the Snohomish last year. When I booked the trip I asked him what gear we would be using. He said Spinning. I asked why. He said he can pretty much teach any customer to use a Spinning Reel in 5 minutes. A lot of those same customers could never learn how to use a Baitcaster.

Easier means more people doing it. More people doing it means more people going fishing to rivers where our opportunites have been cut.

I think affirmative action should let the bruthas fish a couple weeks earlier than the opener and supercede netting day closures.

Didn't read the entire post, so forgive me if it's already been said, but if someone can ID a river and hole by the background in the pic, then they've already been to that river, and already know that spot.

If they've never been there, they aren't going to know where it is from a picture.

All that being said, I try to keep any pics that I occasionally post to be the fish, and the water, and that's about it.

Fish on...

Todd