A good opener on the American? Things look dismal out there...
I understand Bill plays a role in the forums by keeping the energy up and trying to motivate anglers. But it's a little surprising that the dreadful flows of the Lower American have yet to be mentioned.
Swinging flies? Who needs a spey rod or even a switch rod to make a presentation in these runs? The runs are so skinny your rod length is wider than 99% of the runs holding fish. Worse yet, the steelhead are easily being slayed by nymphers and float fisherman because the steelhead are flying up river to spawning grounds and stacked up in the obvious runs/flows of water where the fish are holding. Do humans harass any other creature more while they are trying to reproduce...the spawning areas are obvious.
Sure the fish may be good size and the return numbers may be good, but for the fisherman on the American that enjoys walking into a well known steelhead run and blasting out cast after cast swinging a steelhead fly to get that grab on the swing using spey casts, its a sad season. The river is simply a trickle. Just pray the rains keep up and we don't see the Lower American like this again for a long long time.
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