Bamboozle wrote:
For all who bemoan the decline of the "fishing" at the Little Lehigh in Section 8 and blame it on whatever I have to ask, when it was "better" were you catching wild fish?
I ask because my fishing there has suffered too but I blame it 100% on the lack of stocked fish in Section 8 because I WASN'T catching wild fish in the "good old days".
If you were catching large numbers of wild fish, how was that possible when there WAS a ridiculous amount of stocked fish in that section of the Little Lehigh back then and stocking over wild fish is always the cataclysm we are led to believe it is?
I also wonder that if now Section 8 meets Class A status (knowing that means there are supposed to be enough fish in there), does the fishing suck because there are not as many bugs/hatches and we are incapable of dredging up ample enough fish using other tactics/flies…
…in other words is it because WE suck?
On the other hand, is it because our old happy memories are really about catching stockers in an OVER populated stream, not the present version with a fish biomass that equals or exceeds many other wild trout sections across the state that we all rave about.
I ask for legitimate excuses in all sincerity because any time I have a rough time at a Class A stream, the last thing I blame my failures on is a lack of fish.