AK sockeye is all about pure unadulterated HARVEST of NON-biting fish.

They can either be gillnetted, dipnetted, and/or snagged in the mouth.

AK residents have the option to exercise the full array of choices.

Nonresidents have only one choice... snagging them in the mouth.

Snagging them anywhere else is NOT allowed by law, but like most wak/stak fisheries, the practice runs rampant.

Angling it is NOT....

Angling entails attracting a fish to your offering and enticing it to strike.

Willful take on the part of the fish is the fundamental premise of angling as a sport.

The act of force-feeding them a length of monofilament, no matter how slyly or cunningly executed, versus the act of enticing willful take are mutually exclusive endeavors.

CASE CLOSED
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


The Keen Eye MD
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