Jerry: "You find one person who agrees with you [now] and you hold him up as a free thinker and those that have different points of view are a click."

Like I said earlier Jerry; "Some of you just can't stand to deal with any other person's points of view, and that's also too bad..."

Once again, you guys need to open up your minds . . . not your mouth!"

Ok Jerry, if you think you can sell us your same old story that; "Most steelhead flies are on the large size", then please, old wise one, what about your flies that you guys use on the cutthroat? Are they that large too. . . I don't think so!

And lastly, you go on to say; "Sometimes those that agree with a majority point of view have thought very hard about a situation and have come to a common view point independently of each other." Well Jerry, that's what happened right now to your little click, isn't it?

Roger (RRR)

I had used circle hooks long before they had ever become known in our Washington fishery.

I came from California, I used to fish commercially there, and I used circle hooks a lot. They are, in my opinion, fish killers in many ways, barb less or not! Why do you think that the "Orientals" invented them in the first place? Have you ever used them? I don't care if they were barb less or not once a fish gets hooked, he can't readily get off as easy or get ride of it (the hook). That means, on smaller hooks, it even gets harder. Again, have you ever used them; if so, where, and on what species?



Cowlitzfisherman