Spring Fishing anyone?

Yea, I’m going to have to get more bait, running low.

Detroit River Walleye. 3 man limit yesterday.

sharps4590 said:

The parks are filled to overflowing and 50% are idiots.

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Only 50%??? Better than down in Texas or Oklahoma. I think I'm running about 70% in Beaver's Bend State Park. The last time I steeled myself to wade into that stoopid mass of what humanity has declined into in the last 15 years, I Made myself play nice and did not cut anyone's line that fished into my pool, etc.

(This is a fly fishing RANT!) Time was, you could fish a pool or run and someone would wait until you finished or ask politely if they could fish the head while you fished the tail. There ARE rules of etiquette and occasionally folks you ran into on the river knew & followed them. Back then, the bait & spinner guys would cast right in front of you and ask "Doing any good?" "I was" is the correct answer.

In the last 10 years, other fly fisherman were just as likely to try to fish in your back pocket and could get pretty pushy. One day, 2 jackwads from Big D waded into the pool I was fishing and just walked right through the rising trout trying to locate the trout. I told them, you just waded through a pool of rising trout the I was fishing to and I was catching some nice rainbows.

I went upstream and smoked my last Cuban. Later that day, I passed these same two Dilberts as they tried to cast to some rising trout. Sad to say, I found some nice streamside rocks, just about the size of a naval orange and lobbed several into their pool. Boy, that is one of the great feelings of all time. They didn't see me do it, but the phrase, "next time don't walk through my pool!" told them who stoned their pool. I had a fishing buddy that, if you got too close to his pool would try to catch their line with his fly, would reel it in and clip off their tackle, lure or fly and keep it.

I went fly fishing to fish for trout, try to figure out what was hatching, what stage of the hatch and were the trout actively feeding on it and enjoy some solitude, but it ain't working if you're carrying a stainless .38 in your fishing vest. So I stopped going to Beaver's Bend State Park.

Besides, they performed a simply horrible hatchet job of a so called stream restoration project where they filled in and ruined my favorite section of the Lower Mountain Fork River. I have wonderful memories of that stretch of river and I think I'll watch "A river Runs Through it" this weekend.

Rant off

Are you as dedicated as this fisherman??😁