Video report of salmon fishing at the South Santiam river, Oregon, on June 26, 2010.

nice work Ana! Your video production/editing...whatever you call it is geting better with every video.

Sweet Home is an absolute hot bed for Techno.
Love the jeans with no shirt!

Without that guy the video would be worthless.

No shirt jeans guy is a hella good fish lander...I like how he almost eats $hit about four times per fish.

No fish for you, Anatoliy?

Fish on...

Todd

Nope.

Great job on the video Anatoliy... but I gotta say, I'd rather see video of you catching suckers, than a bunch of hillbillies snaggin' springers.

No shirt guy

Man, I had almost forgotten what Waterloo is like at low flows, late June, and after shift change at the local mill...

Next time, set the vid to carnival/circus music

Like the hat mounted camera Ana!

You should have asked wht color yarn and bead they were using..

No, I'm not so mean.

By the way, that day at Waterloo three different guys told me: "hey, I saw your video on youtube"! I'm turning into a local celebrity

Another fantastic video. Did the shirtless guy toss the net aside because he thought the fish was too big for it? funny stuff!

So I have a question regarding snagging. Do all people who use a drifting rig fall into a "sneggers" category? I thought that a drifting rig is a legal and effective way to catch salmon.

yep, it's totally legal to drift these



but seriously, almost all snaggers use drift gear. Just look for all the guys using one corky, or yarn and a small bead.

Drift fishing is a legal and effective way to catch fish. It is actually one of my favorite ways to catch fish. It is also a common snagging rig..... That being said, the most effective flossing/snagging rig I have ever used was a fly rod. You can snag fish with any type of gear if you have half a wit about what you are doing. These fish do bite, if given the right presentation.....
Neal

"Drift fishing" the way the guys in your video were doin' it Anatoliy is snagging.

The fish are stacked up in the hole and the guys are using long leaders and small corkies and yarn in an attempt to get the leader to slide through their open mouths and hook them 'legally'.

Did you notice that none of the fish hooked in your video were hooked IN the mouth? The 2 fish that were kept were hooked near the head and the one that they released was hooked in the body.

Unfortunately, it's an all too common practice when salmon are around in terminal areas.

If you are really interested in getting them to bite and not just hooking them, don't fish over stacked fish that have been flogged all day and use either bait or hardware.

Or just bring Superfly along and get him to MAKE the snaggers leave by berating them. Still one of my favorite moments of the 2009!

Besides the crappiness of snagging in itself, snaggers often make pods of catchable fish uncatchable.

Whoa.....
I'll use one Corky or straight yarn...(not into beads) and I'm not a snagger.
While we're on the subject, there are liners and snaggers.
Snaggers are more overt and east to spot with their jerking and roundhouse hooksets.
The liners are the real evil ones IMO. A pro liner can fish amongst legal fisherman without being spotted. He must, however land his fish away from view in order to conceal the location of the hook point because it will be outside the mouth of the fish.
Look for the so-called driftfisherman that casts out and instead of following the drift with a tip-up attitude, he lays his rod over level (or below level) to the downstream side and slowly reels in.

The thrill is in the pickup. Liners and snaggers will never know that thrill, that moment.