Gooose,

My point addresses your original point. Since you changed your original point away from "Gill Plate Forward Won't Work" there is nothing more I feel the need to say, but you brought up some other stuff I'll type about a bit.

As far as the fish hooked in the tongue goes I'd say it was legal so long as you didn't admit to trying to floss in front of a warden or anyone else that might judge you including yourself.

You CAN CAN CAN floss without having the hook end up on the outside of the fish's mouth, I've been a very bad boy. Take it from a person that use to floss a lot in clear water conditions etc etc. I could even tell you the best corky setup(or an odd looking fly I call the Dentist ) to make it happen more often. We won't even talk about the dynamics of fish trying to spit leader on a slow drift. You could even run this setup through a bonked fish on the bank to see how it flops around just inside the mouth almost every time. But... that knowledge would be used for evil and I'm working on staying on the side of good in all aspects of my life. Sure some things are hard to give up, but my fishing is much much cleaner now and I'm feeling very good about it. In my flossing hay day an undercover warden wouldn't suspect a thing, in fact he'd change the color of his corky to mine like everyone else and wish he had some anise oil or whatever I was using that day, like it mattered. I hope that answers your mean spirited yet amusing question at least, not that it deserved an answer.