I'm happy to hear you've had a change of heart, because you have made several posts, on several websites, claiming that flossers are actually "more ethical" than real fishermen, that guys need to be allowed to bring home fish for dinner, and that flossing take a lot of skill...all justifications that are meaningless to actual fishermen.

My contention all along has been that there is no place for it because it will lead to exactly what you are seeing on your home river...as it is almost every fall salmon terminal zone in Washington is over run with snaggers, litterbugs, and general douchebags, and that's with snagging and flossing being illegal.

We need to eradicate them from our ranks, not welcome them in and tell them to go be dirtballs "only over there"...because they'll do it everywhere if you give them the chance.

If Alaska and BC sockeye fisheries managers can manage to keep the snaggers in those fisheries and off the others, more power to them...I know folks who participate in them and would never snag fish in any other fishery, anywhere...unfortunately there are those who discovered that you can snag a lot more than just sockeye if you go to anywhere there are fish kegged up, fish of any species, in any river.

A good portion of the justifications for snagging fish can be applied to jacklighting deer, shooting sitting ducks, shooting before/after legal hunting hours, keeping more than your limit of whatever you are harvesting, or harvesting during closed seasons.

When I hear "maybe he's just trying to feed his family" I want to say "then maybe he should not be out fishing and should be looking for a fuckin job".

Fish on...

Todd