As FishFinger says, definitely not a true statement. If you are interested in further investigation check out What Fish See, by Colin Kageyama. That a link off the Washington County Library web page.
One warning. I parked my car by Roderick Rd Bridge to fish the hole under the bridge, nice spinner water down there. While my daughter and I were down fishing someone stopped and cut the valve stem off one of my tires. This was about a year back and I haven't been back since.
Also, if you are...
Nice job Flybum, maybe we'll bump into each other next time I go visit the folks. I want to kick myself realizing I grew up within 10 miles of where that 3rd pic was taken. But never once put a line in that water. Oh well miss spent youth I s'pose.
If no one chimes in and you sally forth in exploration let me know how it goes. I was thinking of doing something similar with my wife in our canoe, but paddling upstream until we couldn't then floating back down.
I know for a fact where at least 5 of em were last weekend. But Chez is right the water is sooo clear it's really difficult right now. Basically I spent an hour stare'n at them, and they spent an hour watching my flies drift by, and probably laughing at me. At least they didn't bolt on my first...
I wouldn't say species snob as much as location. Littlefisher and I have the best times hike'n noisy rivers and streams through the woods. This pretty much leaves us trout, salmon, and steel.
If you have fly gear the pan fish are going nuts for sz 16 pheasant tails right now at Hagg. I was trying for trout with a wooly bugger and a pheasant tail dropper. The first cast I flip out about 15 ft of line and while it was just setting as I stripped out more line for my next cast a decent...
I remember reading somewhere that this was the argument for getting hip boots to begin with. To keep from getting tempted to get in water higher than your knees. Ofcourse, that doesn't address the step in a hole issue.
I'd agree. We had to wait a few hours for a tide change to cross the Columbia bar in my Grandpa's 54' sailboat. The waves were running a tad over 20' that day and it was quite a ride. I saw guys out in small powerboats fishing. Hats off to those guys but I didn't want to be on anything smaller.
Wow, did realize that would spark so many posts, but I'm glad it did. In the opinion of the group is the danger in hip boots that they do not have a belting mechanism to slowdown filling up with water? If so would belted waist waders be safer?
I've been curious about those. After I tried on their hip waders with the built on boots I didn't even look the others. The boots on the hip waders were so flimsy I thought they would be uncomfortable walking across gravel, let alone scrambling over the banks of the Wilson.