Well, I don't really skip anymore than most people do, I just don't spend as long there. When brookie fishing with Swattie and Wiss, we went reasonably slow. Being social, trying to put the newbie (Wiss) on fish more than anything, and having a long time to fish a relatively short stretch of good water, while still saving some till the afternoon when fishing would be better. On Spring, well, I wanted to find a suitable place for everyone to set up for the spinner fall, and I knew that time was fast approaching. And I really don't like that hole you guys were in. It's frog water, long, slow and featureless. Those holes on Spring have lower densities of fish and they tend to run small and yet be harder to catch. So I thought I'd scout ahead, find good water, "reserve" it for PAFF, and bring down whoever wanted to come. There was a heck of a pool just below the one you were in. Middle of the riffle, a break with a good, fast, deep run and an eddy on the far bank. I was quite sure there'd be a ton of fish rising along that current break by the eddy. But there was already a guy set up on em, so I continued on down. Next down was the bridge hole, which is a good one. I knew the head and the tail would fish well, the middle was awfully deep, and I questioned whether anything would rise to dries. So it was within our "reserved" boundaries, if someone wanted to nymph it they could, and Wis and Sal both fished the tailout at some point for the risers there. And we also took the hole below, which was a good dry fly hole, medium depth, medium current, lots of rocks, current seams and the like. And long enough for 4 guys to spread out and all be on decent #'s of rising fish. Which is exactly what happened.
