"A Secret for Hard Fished Waters"

http://www.adventuresinflyfishing.com/vise5.htm:

"With todays burgeoning ranks of new fly fishermen, the amount of pressure on well-known, quality trout water has increased, in some cases significantly. This means fish are seeing more flies. Often, the same patterns over and over. This can lead to a 'negative conditioning response,' or a situation where the fish start to ignore, or shy away from flies they see too much of, or have been hooked on too many times. These trout get the deserved reputation as being 'tough', or highly selective. A prime example of this would be the fish in and around Hat Creek Powerhouse II. It's not unusual to see 8 or 10 anglers fish for hours for only 4 to 5 fish. That's tough! "

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Sounds like some of the places up here in Washington. Almost all of the waters up here are crowded that way. Up here we call it "combat fishing".

Me personally, I like to have some peace and solitude when fishing. Often I'll try out other areas of the same body of water just to get away from the crowds.

I'd be curious to hear how things are in other areas besides Washington and California. Is this sort of thing happen elsewhere as well?

-Michael

P.S. Great advice in this article BTW.