Snaggers!!!

[nanum]

 I dont get pissed off very easily put one thing that really does it is the friggin salmon snaggers. Especially the ones that are the know it all's and they are belligerant. Where the blank do these wanna be sportsmen come from anyways?   

[wildebeast]

So snaggers in general don't bother you, it's just the no it alls.  I don't have a problem with them at all, better than letting them go upriver and die and go to waste. 

Personally I never have snagged salmon and would rather catch them early in the season when fresh from the ocean, I don't even smoke a salmon that's not fresh and bright.

Last year wasn't a great year for salmon, but have been watching them go up river for a week...not a lot of them but some nice chinooks... and if it rains like they say on thursday and friday they should realling get going up the river when they smell the fresh rain water.

cliff

[littlebuf]

um.....are you serious wildebeast? im not sure if any one has explained it to you yet but i'll try. when they go up river its not really a waste its called spawning and its where baby salmon come from. when a mommy salmon and a daddy salmon love each other very much this is what they do, and then later we get to catch more fish. i really hope you were kidding

[RightPlace-RightTime]

littlebuf, nice response, i like it

[ICEMAN]

littlebuf, nice response, i like it

 

[rasbo]

every salmon goes through life hoping they are good enough to make it to pikes place market and get tossed through the air on film.That way they are remembered forever..Once they hit the river the know they have been bad,and they lose color,run into objects and hurt their noses.And get snagged,many commit suicide and attack the hooks..All the stress and drama,and they actually never get laid.Bummer

[singleshot12]

Interesting concept! but even worse their kids feed off their parents rotting carcusses 

Snaggers are the same a-holes that cast into your line,cut your line with their boat moter,and anchor up right in front of you while you're casting from shore. SNAGGERS ARE SOME OF THE LOWEST FORMS OF LIFE THERE IS,,,Gotta hope in their next life they will be the salmon with a big treble hook in their ass.

[BigGoonTuna]

snaggers/flossers are the fishing equivalent of someone ground sluicing sitting ducks.

[elkoholic]

what about the fish's feelings?

[Ray]

I thought it was illegal to snag the body of the fish. They might get hurt 

[klickman]

um.....are you serious wildebeast? im not sure if any one has explained it to you yet but i'll try. when they go up river its not really a waste its called spawning and its where baby salmon come from. when a mommy salmon and a daddy salmon love each other very much this is what they do, and then later we get to catch more fish. i really hope you were kidding

Dang it you beat me to it.      I hope he's joking

KLICKMAN

[JoshT]

I went down to the Green this morning... and hooked a dozen pinks... all on hardware. I KNOW those were biters... because they all flat slammed my spoon. If you want to be sure that you're not snagging... fish harware... or jigs. But if you're drifting through that many fish... you're probably snagging some of them... whether you want to admit it or not. "I can feel them pick it up"... maybe... if you're fishing bait... but a flossed fish don't feel much different than a "biter"... just cause the hook is inside the mouth, doesn't mean it wasn't flossed.

Now, I hate those guys with the 6' leaders that set the hook on the slightest tick... those guys give us all a bad name... and what they're doing is illegal. But lets call a spade a spade here... I'm sure there's quite a few fish that are snagged in the mouth, that we're not calling "snagged"... just because of where the hook ended up.

[bow4elk]

what a waste...so many more salmon born as a result.

[BLKBEARKLR]

um.....are you serious wildebeast? im not sure if any one has explained it to you yet but i'll try. when they go up river its not really a waste its called spawning and its where baby salmon come from. when a mommy salmon and a daddy salmon love each other very much this is what they do, and then later we get to catch more fish. i really hope you were kidding

And to think I never thought of it as love when you have someone gut you rip your aggs out of you throw them in a basket, then have your boyfriend get picked up and squashed over the top of you.

But all joking aside littlebuf is right on the money if nothing gets up stream then 3-4 years later when there is no return they will be the first ones bitching that there is nothing to catch and that WDFW is doing a crappy job, or they have all been netted!!!

[sisu]

I see nothing wrong with flossing. REAL snagging pisses me off. Flossers...well I fly fish for a reason especially when fishing for reds. If it bothers someone then move away from me, but if you are casting out a 1oz. of lead with a 01 treble hook and whacking away with the pole as you reel in then that my friend is SNAGGING.