Stlhdh20,
You pat yourself on the back for not using bait when there are smolts in the river. But you still catch a few, so you still kill wild fish. What difference does it make if they are 5 inches or 20lbs?
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. Maybe you rely on bait too much and could stand to learn some new tricks...Maybe you could be even more successful foregoing bait entirely, I am positive that at least in certain situations this is true.
I don't want to fish anything but eggs. I can fish floats, spinners and pink worms. But I love nothing better than to freedrift eggs! I hook very few smolts. I use either 2 #4's or 2 #2's with a cheater in the middle. To big of a bait to hook most smolts. Let me pose it to you a different way. If you are fishing a river that is C&R and you come across a boat that is pulling bait divers. Your first reaction is to jump all over them for fishing in such a manner, where there are only nates. But you by out there fishing have a chance of mortally hooking a fish also, not as great as the people pulling bait divers, but still a chance. Is it OK for you because you have lessend the chance?? This is where we differ in opinion. You are the same in my book. I fish in C&R rivers, I accept that I'm going to kill some on accident. So I have no right to tell others what to use and what not to use until I quit killing some myself.

Fishhead5
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