Everywhere I went this year, I saw fewer anglers on the water.
I am sure I don’t have to guess the reason, But for clerical sake I am putting this question to the test.
You may feel free to reply if you have not gone for other reasons, or you want to jump in on the topic.
Since I was so poor to begin with I haven’t noticed any difference[sly]. So in short I have been fishing more this year than any other, even bought some float tubes and taken the kids along. I just keep it simple and enjoy.
of course I am lucky and live fairly close to Parker canyon lake.
I live just over a mile from a launch point on Lake Havasu and fish from a kayak. The bass fishing has been pretty good. I plan on going to the Utah high lakes for a while this summer and the fuel prices hurt. 12mpg towing adds up. We will be dry camping to cut expenses. Hopefully close to the water so I dont have to drive to launch. I was looking at Montana and Idaho but we have to keep the distance down so we settled on Utah.
The wildfires have put more of a damper on the fishing than gas prices. there are 3 lakes within 100 miles but 2 are being closed due to wildfires…so Patagonia lake is gonna get a lot of pressure.]