Anne Vitale
12-15-2005, 08:05 PM
Hi All...Got to fish for a couple of hours up in Guerneville this afternoon. It was pretty busy, there were about 11 of us in that short run. I had my spey rod with me so I had to dance around five single handed rod throwers and five gear guys.
For the first hour I was fishing up stream of the temporary dam pilings, trying to keep my long line out of the way, when three gear guys showed up. Without even considering that there were people fishing up stream of them, they immediately waded out and spaced themselves evenly across the river between the pilings :shock: :shock: and started casting directly down stream effectively keeping the fish from coming up river past them. I couldn't believe it. What made it worse, almost immediately, one of them caught a nice (looked to be about 30") chrome bright steelhead and kept it. Grrrrrrrrr. :mad: :mad:
Eventually I moved to below their blockade and had what amounted to an afternoon of spey casting practice. I did, however, see a beautiful fish roll about 30 feet in front of me. Makes me wonder what could have been. ...Anne
For the first hour I was fishing up stream of the temporary dam pilings, trying to keep my long line out of the way, when three gear guys showed up. Without even considering that there were people fishing up stream of them, they immediately waded out and spaced themselves evenly across the river between the pilings :shock: :shock: and started casting directly down stream effectively keeping the fish from coming up river past them. I couldn't believe it. What made it worse, almost immediately, one of them caught a nice (looked to be about 30") chrome bright steelhead and kept it. Grrrrrrrrr. :mad: :mad:
Eventually I moved to below their blockade and had what amounted to an afternoon of spey casting practice. I did, however, see a beautiful fish roll about 30 feet in front of me. Makes me wonder what could have been. ...Anne