This one hit the spot..

You know when your having one of those day's....the kinda day where you can't go fishing..the kinda day you wake up and worry about the fish (yeah...I care that much)...I have always been a big believer in protecting or preserving nature and the magical animals that inhabit the land, the species we have yet to drive to the point of extinction. Steelhead and Salmon are pretty damn close to extinction down here on the central coast...they have very few friends & unfortunately most of those friends are not the people who fish for them...one memory in particular haunts me... it was an early morning on the Russian river and a friend and I stopped at a popular put-in to check out the water conditions...it was not much of a surprise that there was a line of boats waiting to put in (as bad as the generation before us f***ed up the river..there are still some fish). As we walked past some of the guys rigging up in their boats we made a point to see what everyone was throwing (I always do this...out of habit)...not to my surprise..most were gear anglers rigged up with mostly egg sacks and the occasional spoon... as we sat and watched the floatilla enter the water I made eye contact with one guide..he was a nice guy, greeted us with a "You ready to go kill some stealhead!!"..we smiled and walked away (inside I was ready to sock him in the face..wouldn't be the first time ive gotten confrontational about killing these fish illegally..someone has to protect them)..anyways, we got skunked that day, did alot of driving and discovered every hole had at least 10 guys chugging spoons or watching bobbers (fishing is fishing...not trying to hate here, just stating my observations and the obvious- and that is that bait and spoons will catch fish much more efficiently than a swung fly, especially when the fish are not days out of the ocean and low water conditions has them deep and stationary....again not trying to hate...whatever gets you off). Anyways, since the season ended Ive been spending my days cleaning up the garbage up on the river and just mind fishing, looking for fish and making observations...Well today it started raining (Finally!)..so Ive been sitting inside and I discovered this video..and it really hit it home for me, check it out for yourself. A Passion Called Salmon. Killer message with some epic footie. Lets hope this rain lets some fish move up into the tribs so they can get'r-dun.