where are all the bows coming from?

[riverdog]

+1, nothing worse than returning to a productive river than to end up being tortured by stupid planted bows. Sure a few really big fish get bigger but they compete with and stunt the medium size fish for years to come. Ending up with far fewer fish over 20 inches in a year or 2. As far as where they're coming from it's usually F&G that is so uptight about making their quota of planters that they shoot for 30% more than they need. Like only getting 80-90% of goal occasionally would be such a horrible thing. They then end up with more fish than they know what to do with and dump them where they shouldn't go. I refer to such waters as bow hell and stay away for a few years unless I got a newbie to get started. Did take a friend that never flied fished before to one such bow hell. He caught more than a dozen fish an hour with no instruction on how to fish until he was on stream. I didn't cast once. Not other practical use for such waters.
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