Hohwaiian

You said; "CFM, I find your last parting cliche in this context to be more insensitive than the original post."

Hello!! My name is not Dr. Joyce Brothers!
I have never been known to be a real sensitive type of person. I am an extremely frank person, and I almost never beat around the bush when I have something to say to a person.

You go on to say;" I fish bait most of the time so my strike zone is downriver as I slowly tail my sandshrimp downriver in the slot. If you were iritated that my rig came whizzing by you as I reeled in, then you should have said something to me and I would've have shortened my drift. But you must understand that as long as I'm not tangling up with people that I'm going to try to extend my drift as long as possible."

If it would have been me who was there instead of Mirco, I would have told you right to your face! But since I was not there, I will tell you now.

When you are long lining, where else possibly could your "strike zone" be but down river!!

You may not be "tangling up" with other fishermen, but that's just because no one else wants to cast on top of your line and spend the next 10 minutes to retie! If the hole is that far down, move down, or fish the area in front of you or stay within your swing zone.

That may be "your way of fishing", but on the Cowlitz, we call it "long lining"! Fishermen generally fish within the area of their own swing zone. If you all know each other, and are all working together, you can successfully long line without interfering with each other, but even then it still screws up everyone below you.

Generally speaking, long lining in a crowded fishing area really sucks for those who are fishing down stream of you! I could be reading your reply wrong, but it appears by your wording, that you are talking to me. I am not the person who had written the 5 rules. But I will add rule #6; when fishing in a crowded area (such as Blue Cr.) do not lone lines below you swing area!

Cowlitzfisherman