Nope. I pitch em sh!t every chance i get... gun or no. but I do notice a difference in their behavior when they see it. And I like that.

Ya sure. I'd love to see you pitch em sh!t without your gun at Herrling Island during the sockeye season.

So salmon aren't biting my corkies? They look just like eggs.

They (the moderators) are doubling down on that Sniffer site





Wow! Real classy

Worst fishing board ever,

nothing better then walking up to a spot where its dead and nobody's 'catching', then start flossing fish every cast. O_O

The Horde was out in force on the lower Humptulips this weekend. They had a canopy tent set up for shade, a big ole' bonfire and a radio blaring. My son counted 12 guys/kids and even "women" standing elbow to elbow and another group roughly the same size sitting under the tent. We watched them for twenty minutes or so- 1oz cannon ball sinker with at least eight foot leaders with a corkie. They were whipping their casts all the way across the river, letting it settle and ripping 180 degrees. Pathetic. One from the group would consistently be fighting a fish when, after an all day drift with plugs and bait, we only went one 1-6.

I have never seen them in this particular spot and it really surprised me after more than twenty years drifting this stretch. When I floated by in front of them, none would make eye contact and had nothing to say. Another boat at the takeout claimed to have taken video and contacted WDLF but I doubt anything was done. I guess the word gets out that fish were stacking in this appt and they all converge.

Anchor an old bed spring in there.

Sounds like a Children of the Corn and The Hills Have Eyes combo group outting.
How was the heavy metal banjo music?

Why didn't I think of that???? A couple cement blocks and barbed wire strung between? The wheels are turning now.







SF- I didn't listen really just rowed past in disgust. Couple of the guys looked shamefully upscale... The rest not so much.

Yep, a chunk of coiled barbed wire would be perfect and easier to transport.









"The Bob Wire Hole"

NO...

Nothing better than having your 8 yr old nephew walk up behind a stupid flosser standing crotch-deep in the middle of the Kenai... have the kid freespool his spoon just below the idiot who can't seem to get a bite.... and the younglin dam-near gets the rod ripped from his hands as a salmon attacks his spoon... "Uncle.... I GOT one!

The bewildered look of astonishment and disgust on the flosser's face was priceless. He'd been there all afternoon and hadn't hooked a single fish!

The only thing better is having your 5 yr old niece walk in right behind her brother to do it all over again.

LMFAO!

lemme guess, quiggs property/rayonier hole area?

Sleeping bags work well too. If correctly deployed, should come back looking like a large pin cushion

Sport fishing is a sport. The sport was originally designed to fool a fish into biting. No need to say more.

So where does one draw the line between sport fishing and personal use or subsistence fishing?

Catch and release = sport, catch and keep = subsistence?

Much like the words flossing or evolution for an example, it seems that term (sport fishing) has many definitions. In one context it means everyone other than commercial fishermen. The way you use it here it would seem to mean anyone fishing for fun or enjoyment. I happen to find myself enjoying fishing for food sometimes, how do I classify that activity?

Going back to the origin of the pursuit at least, fishing, I seriously doubt the first person to try and catch a fish was thinking anything about fun. Trying to put something on the dinner table was the more than likely the priority.

I'm not playing the devils advocate here at all and am anti-snagging in any fishery that isn't solely for the sake of sustainable harvest, e.g. sockeye in AK.

As sport and/or subsistence fisherman we just need to be careful how we choose our words so we can make sure we are speaking the same language.

Since their hooking method does not require willful take, I do not accept flossers as part of the sportfishing community and never will.

If legal, they are part of the subsistence fishing community.
If not legal they are snaggers.

I like those definitions. How many communities is one fisherman allowed to belong to?

How do we classify the guy that drags a gill net for work during the day, flosses sockeye in the afternoon, and swings spey flies on a floating line for rainbows in the evening?

Not sure if I have met him, but he is probably out there.

This one would have some sort of mental condition.
Very likely eats live goldfish to entertain the folks down at the tavern.
Fish fear this fugger.

You can be a member of as many as you want...you just can't be a sportsfisherman while you are snagging, or using your gillnet.

Fish on...

Todd