Dan no need to play peacemaker. I don't have a problem with Joe and Vision Hooks per se. My reply was merely a "nice" reactionary post to the dude with the condescending attitude. While I don't know Marty and Mike K. personally, we've been discussing steelhead/salmon issues and techniques for over a year now. So when some dude that has only posted a half dozen times calls them "morons," I felt compelled to say something. It's like when we all jumped NoodleRodder for his inappropriate comment last year.

Anyway, just because free drifter "hooked" ten on the Snohomish system, are we supposed to be impressed? All of a sudden he has clout? "I have traveled the world and successfully conquered its greatest gamefish: tarpon, taimen, and the mighty mahseer!!!" now I suppose I have clout for saying this.

freedrifter you're totally contradictory. In one sentence you mention integrity. In the next you claim Joe caught "OVER 1000 salmon last fall."

Now Joe, I don't doubt you are a badass fisher. But, you say you fish 4-5 days per week during Aug, Sept, Oct and Nov. If indeed you landed over 1000 salmon, at the very least you averaged over 15 per day. This means on those days when the conditions were poor and you got skunked, you'd have to make it up the next time with a thirty-fish day, landed. If you say you are a dedicated chum slayer and chase the dogs everyday, then this number may have some merit. But this I highly doubt. Besides, last year sucked for chums.

free drifter, as a fellow fisher I too have been guilty of inflating my or my buddies' catch numbers. But please don't claim B.S. catch numbers and use it in tandem with an "I am better than you" attitude. Veteran members of this board have seen these kinds of attitudes and rejected them long ago.