Roolinghills brings up several interesting points there...
I absolutely suck at fishing, but as I have said many times I think actually catching a fish is just a bonus on top of the rest of the adventure and solitude. Or this could just be my excuse for sucking at fishing... Anyway, I did land two really nice fish Tuesday, but I was also driftboat fishing with a friend who is a professional guide. He is one of those jerks that says, "Cast over there, right in front of that third rock", and you do and there is a friggin fish on the line. So I agree that skill and experience have a busload of relevance to who will get fish and who won't. PS- I suck. I won't.
Roolinghills also provides a point to consider when he mentions tsunamis, vibrations, sulfur-based chemical changes and other environmentally related factors that might cause the stupid fish to go astray. There have been some new reports that fish movements, such as finding the exact river that they came from, are based more on magnetic fields than on chemical tracers, and that these fields are gradually shifting as the positive/negative poles are slowly reversing themselves.
I have a court-ordered injunction against me that states I cannot watch OPB until I pay them the money from that pledge I made when I was really, really drunk. I did see a similar program on a different channel that talked about Coho and other species being forced to find new places to migrate and to spawn. The fish will travel incredible distances to find new waters to their liking. One Tribe (or whatever) of Coho actually traveled thousands of miles from the San Juan Islands to the sunny shores of East Guam after being forced from the Washington area by that one jerky kid with the bb gun. The scientists don't know if the Coho had once used East Guam as a primordial spawning ground and were forced away (when the US Government wisely decided to store like a billion gallons of DDT, Agent Orange and who knows what else in thin-walled steel drums, exposed 24/7/365 for 40 years to the salty tropical air), or if the Coho are just like a lot of other Washington residents, sick of the rain and the government and the whole goddamned deal with Boeing, and wanted to go to someplace sunny and warm and bright and without a ****ing Starbucks on every mother****ing corner.
Whatever the reason for the odd migration, the TV show said there is no scientific answer for why a bunch of stupid fish would desire to spawn on an island without any freshwater rivers. They did interview Julie from "The Loveboat" and she said most people just come to East Guam for the cheap well drinks and are then just too wasted to want to ****.