Lots of fish!!!
Fished north of the Harrison in our "HONEY HOLE." :p
Lost count of how many fish we caught, but let's say my freezer is FULL!!! I kept 15 including a 30 lb King. Not bad for 3 days of fishing.
It's open friday until midnite, Shane and I will be there tomarrow at 4:30 am to SLAM AWAY!
Sorry I missed you FJ and Craven, but Shane had Bull riding at the rodeo sat.

Hey, anyone got any Ben-Gay? My arms HURT!

G-man:

How do you keep 15 fish for "yourself" in 3 days with a two sock a day limit?

I just got back from being up there for 4 days and yes my arms are very sore to!

BD

BobberDown, Don't go alone.
You get 2 sockeye a day plus 1 king.

Oh, I forgot, Fisheries is leaving it open for 1 more week, but I won't be fishing for awhile. My arm is not working so good now.

Thanks for the heads up there Gman. I'll be watching for a Washington State registered jet catching over their limit. If you keep bragging about how many fish you're stacking in the freezer you may find that the welcome mat is not exactly going to be out for you next time you come up.

If you're gonna floss why not stick closer to home? :rolleyes:

flossing = snagging and is bad horrible and rotten even if it is legal it has absolutely no redeming value. True sportsmen do not do it PERIOD! It doesn't matter is a certain species or run won't bite. If they won't bite then do not fish for them!!!!!!!

I like to call it hero fishing. The most unskilled fishermen can be a "hero" for a day during the sockeye fishery. Unfortunately there is basically nothing sporting about it. There is a lot of talk up here about having maximum leader lengths imposed, and hopefully this will get a lot of the meat hogs off the river.

You know, if you purists don't like flossing, then don't do it. Why do you insist on demeaning other people that are just having an enjoyable fishing experience?

RA3, Your range of what is acceptable in fishing is alot tighter than what is lawful. If it bothers you that much work to get the laws changed, even in Canada. I don't floss fish but certainly won't demean others for doing what is lawful. PETA has taken the high "moral" ground that fishing is harmful and true sportsmen wouldn't fish, only take pictures. To PETA you are bad horrible and rotten with no moral standing. So what guidelines do we live by?

Rob's way = ONLY way...

Didn't y'all know that?? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Hey my first post on the fishing section of this board!!

HEY !! Where's that horse?

Possesion is two limits: 4 sockeye and two Springs. Are you telling me G-man that you brought your family of 4? Or were you klunking over your limit.

I'm not a purist by any means. It just amazes me all the guys on here that want to play "johnny law" when they see someone flossing because it's "immoral" and illegal. But as soon as it's legal to do they're all over it.
Guess I don't let politicians decide my morals for me.

Welcome to TheRouge.

The "flossfest" on the Fraser is nothing more than a meat fishery and is not for the angler looking for a true sport fishing trip. So purhaps "angling purists" should just stay away.

The fishery is nothing more than "single-line gillnetting" as described by an older Canadian gent who fished next to me yesterday.

The fishery provides an opportunity for me to fish in a beautiful scenic area for great tasting fish while supporting the local Fraser economy from restaurants to motels and toss in the $80 Canadian License to boot.

I found that the bad behaviours along the bars that had been developing over the last few seasons vastly improved. Witnessed many anglers packing their trash out as well as old balls of mono and trash left by others. I try to make a habit of this trash collecting everytime I'm up there because it's just to beautiful of a resource to see get trashed.

I came back with one spring shy of my possesion limit of 4 socks and two springs for two days of fishing.

G-man: Openly bragging about going over your limit will not help you make very many friends on this board.

BD

Is there some confusion about the fact that G-MAN took his family with him? I guess that means they were within their possession limits. Do you guys even read the posts, or is it just strictly "shoot from the hip" time?

Dan,

I consider myself a pretty intelligent guy, but I may be a little obtuse here as well. Could you please direct me to the verbage where G-Man states that he brought 4 members of his family, and they each retained their posession limit? My limited comprehension skills led me to interpret this:
And this:
to be somewhat ambiguous at best.

Left to open interpretation, it would appear that G-Man kept more than his limit during his trip.

I consider you a very intelligent individual. You must be even more so than I gave you credit, for your ability to discern the actual truth from the limited amount of information that G-Man provided.

Dan S:

Notice G-man's reference as "I kept 15", a statement like that only creates speculation. If I'm wrong I'm sorry for sicking the hounds on him.

BD

Hey G-man, how are you feeling? Back out fishing yet?

Pay careful attention to THIS part:

Being that I don't generally accuse people of being poachers without solid evidence, I took that to mean enough members of his family went along to make that a legal limit.

I suppose I could be wrong, but I prefer not to accuse someone of doing something illegal unless I know they did.

If the rest of you want to assume the worst about somebody, then be my guest..............