Drop_Shot

It was a great 2014..  I put together a collage of some of the great fish me and my buddies caught this past year.. Hope everyone here had as successful a fishing year as we had.

picture linked below

https://fishinenvy.w...-that-was-2014/

I've been fishing the middle stretch of the Humber since I was a teen, i'm in my early 30s now, and I've noticed the caliber and fish diversity has gone down the past 15 yrs of fishing it...

We still get the Salmon and Trout runs, but in late spring, summer, it use to be a great warm water fishery with such a diversity of species from bass to various panfish, catfish, carp, various sucker, but now those species don't seem to come up anymore, or at least not nearly in the numbers or sizes they use to... 

Have they built up fish barriers or bigger dams recently? Possibly to control the goby or lamprey or to improve trout habitat?  I'm definitely a strong supporter of conservation and reducing the spread of invasive species, but is it really conservation when so many native species are inhibited of using the habitat in favor of one species, especially non native species such as rainbow trout and pacific salmon?

Hey hey...

It's been such a long tedious winter!!! Relentless!

Can't wait to get the fly rod out come April.  Here's the last outing I had on the fly before hanging up the gear for the season...  Hopefully we can get out there soon!

Enjoy.  http://fishinenvy.wo...ies-on-the-fly/