October 12, 2004
Pretty Tame Thanksgiving
We had the 'Outlaws" over and cooked our turkey on Sunday freeing up yesterday to just kick back and not do really much at all. Tyler and I went fishing on the Vedder/Chilliwack River.
Now there's opening a can of worms!
I can remember fishing the river when I was Tyler’s age (10 years old), and you could pretty well fish anywhere. When I got older and started fishing with my buddy Chris, we could generally fish any day anywhere. The last 5-10 years have seen a great increase in fishermen on the river, and it is now to the point where all the good spots are fished by so many guys it is ridiculous. I mean standing 5 ft from another guy, having to cast over your head and hope the guy next to you is as good at it as you or you will be wearing a hook is not my idea of fun.
Today I always end up fishing in a shity spot on purpose so I don't have to battle the crowds, as you can see in the picture of Tyler; there was nobody around where we decided to fish. There is an situational advantage at times that a lot of the out of towners will walk right by some spots and go to the crowded ones because " they gotta be getting fish up there, look at all the guys".
What really gets me is the garbage! I wear a big ass fishing vest, most do, the point here is; you can fit a candy wrapper, a pop can, or whatever you carried out to the river back to your car or at least to a garbage can. The river is littered, and most of the time it is the out of town-ers that do it, many of which just don't care.
Well there's a rant!
Posted by Muckhead at October 12, 2004 11:02 AM