Snaggers!!!

[Antlershed]

Read the definition of snagging inthe regs, and then try and tell me that flossing doesn't fall into that definition... 

[PolarBear]

Read the definition of snagging inthe regs, and then try and tell me that flossing doesn't fall into that definition... 

Flossing is snagging and both are illegal no matter how you try to justify it.

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

It is amazing the laws that people choose to follow and break. Then when they get caught they blame someone else.

[sisu]

You read what you want into the law. I'm a short timer in this state anyway and it's not illegal where I come from.

[Antlershed]

You read what you want into the law. I'm a short timer in this state anyway and it's not illegal where I come from.

Now there's a good attitude to have... 

[cohoho]

You read what you want into the law. I'm a short timer in this state anyway and it's not illegal where I come from.

I'm with you on this one Sisu for sure... I remember this very same conversation when I first got here the summer before....  Hey darn it, I used to be one of the best flossers running and that would be fishing with a Trooper friend of mine, you can tell the difference between a true flosser and a snagger......... 

Wouldn't call it actually snagging, cause I would pick a fish and catch it all legally in the mouth...   I won't lie by stating I never foul hooked one, but can state never kept a foul hooked fish.   Snagging is aimlessly flipping a line out then ripping it at the end and hoping a fish is on the other end... or treble hook with weight, which is also legal in AK in the Salt by the way....

Crimean Shrimp is the best set up for flossing....

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

Man i grew up snagging, that is what i was taught so that is what i did. It was easy to catch fish and bring them home. I try and teach people that snag how to do it right now. People are a product of there upbringing. I look at snagging the same as poaching

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

My son doesn't get to snag, i have tought him how to do it right. if he foul hooks a fish it goes back. No flip and rip. He has to wait for the take.

[Antlershed]

Just because a fish is in the mouth, doesn't mean it wasn't "snagged"   

[BigGoonTuna]

yeah, and you're cheating yourself if you aren't fishing for biters.

[Gobble]

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.

I'm with you on this one Sisu.

I am NOT a snagger and I get very tired of seeing people doing it. I usually fill out 2 punch cards a year on average fishing for in salmon in the rivers. Flossing is not snagging. You cannot prevent a fish from running into you line as it is drifting (esp with the numbers in the river now)  Fish swim with their mouth open and closing to breath. Snagging is when you rip the line in hopes of driving your hook into its side, there is no comparison. I very rarely foul hook a fish because I have learned over the years how not to fish to avoid it  foul hooking, plus with experience you learn how to feel the bite which can be very light in some salmon breeds. 

[BigGoonTuna]

do us a favor, and stay on the puyallup!

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

Now i prefer to bobber and egg fish for salmon. Or i toss plugs, i love it when a fish crushes the plug out of anger. I have a few with teeth marks into them.
Very rarely do i drift fish anymore.

[fishunt247]

I'm suprised nobody has addressed the snaggers that sit outside of the tribs on the Columbia...Drano, Underwood, Klickitat, Deschutes, etc. I know they call themselves jiggers, but really, come on. Ripping the jig up as hard as you can, dropping it down, and doing it again isn't jigging. They are looking for sidebiters. Two weeks ago I overheard a snagger that is ALWAYS outside of Drano say "Man I got 19 today, and 9 mouth biters. They were super aggressive today." For him, 9 mouth bites is a lot. Usually when I talk to him its like one in ten that are mouth bites. I guess its just really sad that it takes people resorting to this for them to catch fish. Oh and another thing, the "Anti Snagging Rule" on the Columbia affected everybody except snagger/jiggers. Gotta love our game dept.

[Tom Tamer]

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.

I'm with you on this one Sisu.

I am NOT a snagger and I get very tired of seeing people doing it. I usually fill out 2 punch cards a year on average fishing for in salmon in the rivers. Flossing is not snagging. You cannot prevent a fish from running into you line as it is drifting (esp with the numbers in the river now)  Fish swim with their mouth open and closing to breath. Snagging is when you rip the line in hopes of driving your hook into its side, there is no comparison. I very rarely foul hook a fish because I have learned over the years how not to fish to avoid it  foul hooking, plus with experience you learn how to feel the bite which can be very light in some salmon breeds.  

  

In fact todayI fished the Puy til about 4:30 and left mainly because the fish got SOOOO thick you could no longer feel for a real bite one cast and about ten or more fish would bump into your line every time, was able to manage a biting Silver that ran about 12 pounds