Jo,

Personally, I don't give a darn (keeping this clean) whether the person downstream or upstream is man, woman, or what is or is not his or her sexual orientation. When I'm on the water, my concerns, regarding other fly fishers are: distance from me, how much noise the person makes, how much that person disturbs the water, how likely that person is to interfere with my fishing, and the like.

It's been said before and I'll restate it: You create any catagory of people (like fly fishers) and you will have some as*****s within the group. If anyone, man or woman, is looking for fly fishing utopia, it's not going to happen. So get over it. That's just the way it is.

Allan