NCD, there's no hypocrisy...and you are trying to start an argument, or get people to agree with you that flossing is OK, and you're not going to get much of that here.

Flossing is snagging, I don't care where they are hooked. Snagging is not sporting, and I don't give a rip how the fish fights if it is snagged...want sport? Snag 'em in the ass, then you'll get some sport fighting 'em...it's the same thing, and if just fighting a fish is all you're after, you'll get a much better fight with a chum hooked in the dorsal fin than you'll ever get out of one hooked fairly.

Fishing is about getting a fish to bite your offering...period.

If you need to stroke your ego so much that you just *must* catch a fish, even if it doesn't bite your offering, than I suggest that you go to the store and just buy a fish.

It's not about where the fish is hooked so much as it is about your intention when fishing...if your intent is to snag 'em, then you're not fishing. May as well use a gillnet or C-4.

If you're intent is to get them to bite, then do it...and rig your stuff up in a way that will minimize the wounding as much as possible.

There is no hypocrisy when you don't like snagging fish, but don't mind getting one to bite...that's what fishing is.

Hypocrisy is calling yourself a fisherman when you are a snagger.

Fish on...

Todd