Originally Posted By: Redside
Some of you are saying it may have been a bleeder. No way! The chance of a guy flyfishing and having a bleeder is MUCH lower. Almost impossible if the guy was swinging flies. If he was fishing flies below an indicator there is a very small chance of the fish getting the fly down deep in his gills.

There is no way this was a bleeder.

What a shame!

Take a picture and let the fish reproduce on our vanishing O.P. Rivers!

Just as he shouldn't give a bad name to PT folks, I am pissed as a fellow fly fisher that this %^&*^%^* killed this fish.

Plain and simple this is a SELFISH and IGNORANT fisherman!

a deeply swallowed tuble fly or a fly with a stinger hook will hook a fish in the tongueor in the gills. i had it happen to a couple of fish on the Dean about ten years ago.
i cant untderstand for the life of me why the whole HOH riverisn't under selective gear rules and C&R. There is no way we should be allowed to kill any wild steelhead.


Edited by shawn k (02/22/09 12:35 AM)