I'll take the cold, snow and less fishing pressure 9/10 times.
What?! You don't like combat fishing?! We had a guy stabbed at a salmon river a few years ago in Michigan.
That is what the canal has turned into. Unfortunately I'm a little late to fish these two fisheries and just happened to start fishing them at the peak of their popularity. I guess better late than never but it would sure have been nice to fish those places before the crowds.
It will most likely never be the same again.