The Good Old Days . . .

When boomers talk about how much better the fishing was in the old days, it's sometimes true, but the real story is much more complicated.

Back when things got slow at Kiene’s Fly Shop, we would of course talk about, what else, fly fishing or some other related subject. It wasn’t unusual for one of us to go into a rant about the sorry state of the lower American River’s steelhead fishery, and undoubtedly, one of the guys would start talking about the good old days when the river was choke…